SIGN OF THE TIMES: The most buzzworthy story to surface as the California Legislature returned to Sacramento this week carried a memorable hashtag: “Tampons for all.”
Dispatched into the Twitterverse by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, the felicitous phrase summed up her pitch for a $20 million bill that would exempt feminine hygiene products from sales taxes.
The locution also served as a small example illustrating the Capitol’s anticipated central preoccupation this year: finding myriad and creative ways to spend more than $3 billion in unanticipated, “surplus” taxpayer revenue already collected this fiscal year.