Gov. Jerry Brown`s parting gift to his successor: ship-shape state finances
(LA Times Clippers)

Gov. Jerry Brown is massaging the final state budget of his long career, and his No. 1 priority is simple: Don´t leave his successor the same mess he did the last time. When Brown shut the door on the governor´s office in 1983 after occupying it for eight years, he bequeathed George Deukmejian...