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Many years of partisan wrangling over the state budget reached a climax in 2010 when public employee unions and Democratic politicians persuaded voters to pass Proposition 25, eliminating the two-thirds vote for budgets.
Gov. Jerry Brown is scaling back the state's highly controversial bullet train project to keep it alive.
Would it be churlish to say that the much-ballyhooed Think Long Committee for California fell short on fortitude? Or merely accurate? Billionaire Nicholas Berggruen created the committee and invited a Who's Who of California's political, civic a