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Ash Roughani

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on the importance of Open Data
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We caught up with Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this week at the “Forum on How Government Can Evolve to Harness the Digital Age Revolution” and asked him a few questions about the importance of Open Data to California’s future prosperity

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News < Re: Week of August 16
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They’re back. We’re referring to state worker furloughs, of course.

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News < Re: Week of August 9
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$2,190,870,000.00 That’s the amount in unpaid bills the state will accrue if it does not enact a budget by the end of this month, according to State Controller John Chiang.

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Rules no substitute for leadership, but they’re a good complement
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Yesterday, California officially entered its third week into the 2010-11 Fiscal Year without a budget. While this is hardly surprising to close watchers of California politics and nowhere even close to the 85 days late which the previous year’s budget was enacted, the inevitable annual delay certainly does little to improve public perception of state leaders.

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