Brown signs budget

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a rare on-time budget a day before the start of California's fiscal year, a package that is a combination of spending cuts, fee hikes and the promise of higher tax revenue that might never materialize. AP in the Daily News,

Brown signed the $86 billion spending plan after majority Democrats passed it without Republican support. They acted for the first time under a voter-approved law that allows budgets -- but not tax increases -- to be passed with a simple majority, rather than a two-thirds vote.