As California goes, so goes the nation?  Let’s hope not, since voters looked all but certain on Tuesday to force the deepest spending cuts since statehood was achieved in 1850. We have no qualms endorsing spending cuts over tax increases, but in this case the cuts will be so severe that it’s possible only basic services will survive. A certain casualty will be the state’s once-vaunted higher education system, which looks set to take a $2.3 billion hit on top $3 billion in reductions already baked in the cake. At the grade-school level, 27,000 » Read the full article