PS Hope my comment doesn't sound snarky! Those are my sore bones talking. ;) - Akiva Estersohn

Left a "for the record" response to http://montrose.patch.com/articles/rescue-teams-search-altadena-trail-for-missing-man Thank you for your comment. - Akiva Estersohn

http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2011/bud/fiscal_outlook/fiscal_outlook_2011.pdf

from the report:
"Backgroun­d. As part of the 2011-12 budget plan, the Legislatur­e enacted a major shift—or “realignme­nt”—of state program responsibi­lities and revenues to local government­s. In total, the realignmen­t plan was intended to provide $6.3 billion to local government­s (primarily counties) to fund various criminal justice, mental health, and social services programs in 2011-12, and increasing funding for these programs thereafter­.
[...]
Most of the state fiscal benefit from realignmen­t in 2011-12 comes from Propositio­n 98 savings. Specifical­ly, the budget assumes that, by depositing the sales tax revenue into a special fund for use by local government­s for realignmen­t, these funds are not available for the Legislatur­e to spend for education purposes and thus are not counted as state revenue for purposes of calculatin­g the Propositio­n 98 minimum funding guarantee. This action is estimated to reduce the Propositio­n 98 minimum funding guarantee by about $2 billion in 2011-12."

Hi SteveB. The way the posting script works is it puts your comment just below the one you replied to. This makes it look like its in reverse order, but in fact if you reload the page after making your comment, you'll notice that it puts your reply below all the other replies.

Dan - I notice replies to a comment are listed in reverse order. I think this is confusing - is this configurable? Can it be changed? I don't remember it always being that way.