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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Perhaps no state has more to lose than California in the federal budget proposal House Republicans passed this week. That spending plan sets up significant cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people. California has taken just about every route and opportunity to...

Carolyn Jones CalMatters Rural school districts — already beset with financial struggles — are furiously scrambling to save a century-old funding source that Republican lawmakers last month eliminated from the federal budget. The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which has been approved almost continuously since 1908, is...