Why Monterey would be a cool capital

California's elected leaders are sweating out another summer of budget stalemate. Temporary state workers are hot under the collar after losing their jobs, and the permanent employees may see their paychecks cut. Commentators are heatedly blasting the lack of a budget and recycling old ideas about how to change the state's budget process, none of them politically viable.

By Joe Mathews

August 17, 2008