For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “As Orange County Goes, So Goes the Nation” VOTERS SPEAK… Long A US Conservative Bastion, The OC Goes Blue Wildfire Impacts, Drinking Water Access Top Voter Worries RATS & ENERGY & WASTE MANAGEMENT Rats Infest Preschool Playground at CalEPA…Dilemma of Child Safety
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “Dangerously Underfunded & Unwilling to Plan Prudently” CALIFORNIA FISCAL FITNESS QUESTIONED California Local Government Pensions Growing 6X the National Rate State Unemployment Fund Least Solvent in US State Auditor Forms Citizen Commission to Draw New Political Lines…10,000 Apply HIGH TECH & LOW
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “Red Hot” Flips to Officially “Weak” CALIFORNIA ECONOMY Taxpayers Contributed $1B More Than Forecast “Red Hot” Housing Market Now “Weak” WATER & ENERGY & AIR Drinking Water Clean-Up Fund – Newsom’s “Proudest” Year One Achievement 1,000 Communities Lack Clean Water Governor Tours
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “It Matters What Species You Kill” CALIFORNIANS & COMPROMISE Only Half of Californians Find Our State Affordable New Wildfire Law: A Good, Not Perfect, Legislative Compromise RESOURCES LA’s Free Sewage Treatment Ends…in Bakersfield Wind Power Blows Ill in Rural Communities Miracle Corn:
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “Compromise and Collaboration”…in the Capitol! CAPITAL ACTIONS Inside Look at Legislators Legislating…Or Not... Dealing with Wildfires: $26 Billion Final 2019-20 California Financial Plan New State Budget Benefits Public Employee Unions State’s Healthcare Insurer Announces Record Low Premium Hike IT’S THE WATER Drinking
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – LET’S GET FISCAL… Newsom Signs Record State Spending; Sweeping New Policies State Budget Safety Net is a First With Budget Signed, Major Issues On the Capitol Table Governor & Legislature OK $2 Billion for Housing & Homelessness California Fiscal Picture Remains Rosy…Mostly
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “What’s Out There is Darkness…Good Luck, Baby” – Jerry Brown NEWSOM GETS FISCAL…AND PHYSICAL Big Caveats in the State Budget Governor Goes National: “America in 2019 is California in the 1990s” CRITICAL ISSUES California Leads Healthcare Reform Future of Water Local Governments
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – A $214-Billion “Commitment to Prudence” STATE BUDGET Legislature Passes 2019-20 Budget…But “There Are Deals Still Out There” Retail Politics During Budget Season: Logic Takes a Vacation Carbon Tax Fund for Clean Water Questioned CRITICAL ISSUES Chamber of Commerce Stops All “Job Killer”
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “This Comes Due for Newsom At Some Point” GOVERNOR & STATE BUDGET Newsom Criticized for “Swinging At Every Pitch” Governor Budgets a Hefty Personal Staff Increase Water Tax Proponents Keep Pressure On Legislature POLITICS & VOTERS Two New State Senators Win Special
For Clients & Friends of The Gualco Group, Inc. IN THIS ISSUE – “Not the Worst Job I Ever Had…I Worked For A Meat Packer, Picking Up Dead Cows” – California’s Top Utility Regulator Retires LAWMAKING & RETAIL POLITICS State Budget 101: “Legislature’s Impenetrably Arcane Thicket” CA Dems Gather to Hear 14 Presidential Candidates! THE