A dark economic and fiscal tunnel

Gov. Gavin Newsom says he sees light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel, when Californians regain “a semblance of normalcy,” emerge from their homes, converse verbally rather than electronically and return to their jobsites.
The date of that happy day is still very uncertain. Moreover, true recovery also will require Newsom and the state he governs to traverse another dark tunnel of severe economic recession and state and local government budgets swollen by crisis-related