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Watching Sacramento and the machinations in the Capitol will be even more interesting in the next couple of years. Gov. Brown is riding high after convincing voters to raise the income tax rate on high-income earners to 13.3 percent, the highest level in the country. His political capital is significant and, with Democrats set to […]

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