This week's podcast is all about this week's most talked about job seekers: a guy who wants the state's #2 ranking job and two folks who want to be top dog.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Warming UpJust like leftovers are best after a little bit of a reheating in the microwave, this week's Capital Notes Podcast finds a few politics and policy morsels that, while not new, are worth a second bite.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Polls & PotshotsLess policy. More politics. That's this week's Capital Notes Podcast in a nutshell.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Potomac FeverPotomac Fever? Isn't the Capital Notes Podcast a California politics podcast? Sure, but this week the Golden State's influence and representation in Washington, D.C. took center stage.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
All Arnold, All The TimeOn this week's Capital Notes Podcast, a full wrap up on the governor's proposals for cleaning up the budget red ink ... a State of the State speech chock full of policy proposals ... and political battles over both just around the corner.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Red Ink Year In ReviewOn this special Capital Notes Podcast, we recap the year that's coming to a close ... from numerous budget fights to winners (maybe only one) and losers (just about everyone else).Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
By The NumbersThis week's Capital Notes Podcast is all about the numbers. First, this week's new statewide poll looking at the race for governor offers up some interesting scenarios, even though it's still a long ways to November 2.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Now What?That's a fair question to ask for those involved in two of our topics on this week's edition of the Capital Notes Podcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Career AdvancementIn this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we discuss the battle over who will be the new Speaker of the California Assembly, and whether Joe Taxpayer would notice any differences in the policies of either.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Checking in on 2010On this week's podcast, we take a pause from weekly events to check in on where the candidates and campaigns stand as 2009 comes to a close.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Seeing Red, AgainOn this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we take a look at this week's prediction of a $20.7 billion budget gap and what that means for lawmakers once they return to Sacramento.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
We're BackOur hiatus has come to an end! This week: a look back on the big water deal, the guessing game of who gets to be California's next "lite guv," and the tempest over recording phone calls at the office of the Attorney General.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Unfinished PodcastThis week's conversation focused on water, renewable energy, and prisons. Trouble is, due to a technical snafu, the audio recording never made it to prisons, and actually stops abruptly in our chat on energy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Personal PoliticsThe legislative year is coming down to the final hours, and much of the action has been intense and, in some cases, personal.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
11th Hour FrenzyWe're back with a week-ending Capital Notes Podcast, and a look at the frenzy over prison reform, a comprehensive water fix, and what might be one of the last-minute power plays hoping to sneak in before the final gavel falls.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Recess KerfuffleCapitol Weekly's Anthony York and I recap Governor Schwarzenegger's budget vetoes, the likely legal kerfuffle over those vetoes, and new developments in the very long kerfuffle over prison overcrowding.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Twentysomething BillionThis week's Capital Notes Podcast is all deficit agreement, all the time. Of course, we're not sure exactly how big either the proposal is... or the problem, hence the term "Twentysomething."Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
School DazeOn this week's Capital Notes Podcast, we examine the status of sputtering budget talks. Most notably, the battle over Proposition 98 — Test 1, maintenance factor, you know you love it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Of Chaos and ConspiraciesThe impasse inside the state Capitol seems so intense that it's led some to begin to chart some interesting conspiracies.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
One Step Up, Two Steps BackYou know it's been an odd week when the Legislature rejects a plan to buy itself more time. But that's where things stand as of this morning, and this week's Capital Notes Podcast examines the week so far, from stalled spending cuts to the specter of IOUs and beyond.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website