Straight Talk On Unbalanced State Budget

The Sacramento Bee journalist Dan Walters built a reputation for covering state government and politics in print, but he also has a video blog worth monitoring. A post this week puts the state court budget into simple language, noting how the system shifted from local to state funding years ago – with unintended and ironic results. He also scoffs at the “balanced” state budget, identifying the courts as one of the non-sustainable cuts that create that “balance.”
 
Here’s the Walters link.