With the governor and legislature still at an impasse, state Controller John Chiang is warning that he might have to issue IOUs by late August or early September. For July, state revenues were below estimates by $91 million, or 1.9 percent. Those are small numbers for a budget as large as California's, and so they don't alter the overall outlook. Here's the report.
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