California’s Economic Pandemic

Amid Massive Uncertainty, Gov. Newsom Sends Lawmakers a Crisis Budget

By Jerry Roberts Thu May 21, 2020 | 09:33am

In 2018, Jerry Brown unveiled his final budget as governor with some words of counsel for his successor.

“What’s out there is darkness, uncertainty, decline, and recession,” he said in starting his last year in office. “So good luck, baby.”

The man always had a knack for peering into the future.

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