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California braces for possible government shutdown

According to Mapquest, it’s roughly 2,670 miles from L.A. to Washington, D.C. And 2,730 from Sacramento to D.C. You’d think that kind of distance would help buffer California from the…

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By Darrell Satzman • Sep 27, 2013 • 1 min read

How big a hit might the Golden State take? Evan Halper covers California-related issues for the L.A. Times in its Washington bureau. He says we’ve been through this before -in 1995 and 1996. But he says we don’t have a clear picture yet this time around of what the financial fallout might be:

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