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As everyone knows California is facing a budget shortfall of $26.3 billion dollars, which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state legislature is trying to close by increasing taxes, borrowing thr

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted members of the state Assembly Wednesday for lacking "the guts" to enact sweeping changes to California sentencing laws. The Republican governor said lawmakers were willing to cut $10 billion from education, but are reluctant to trim just $1.2 billion from prisons.

In an effort to reduce costs a couple of years ago, Sacramento County officials cut a health insurance subsidy to county workers who retired after June 1, 2007.

As a part of the plan to fix the $42 billion budget deficit, the California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is urging the legislature to back his proposed cuts to the three largest areas of the state's budget - prisons, education, and health care.

The president orders federal agencies to set high goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut energy use, save water and recycle more.