R. Jeffrey Lustig | Sacramento Bee | May 9, 2010
Each June finds California facing massive deficits and its residents plunged into uncertainty and hardship until its budget finally passes months past the deadline.
Its schools are deteriorating, its water plan crumbling, and its prisons and highways are in disrepair.
California government is broken. But how is it broken? Why is it broken? And who gets hurt by the breakage?
I and the other authors of "Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good" set out to answer these questions and explain the roots of California's constitutional crisis. We also set out to find effective remedies for that crisis.