Jun

Gov. Jerry Brown signs rare on-time Calif. budget (AP)

Gov. Jerry Brown signs the state budget surrounded by Assembly Speaker John A. Perez, D-Los Angeles, left, and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, right, on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.. (AP Photo/Hector Amezcua, pool) 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.