Tale of 2 State Budgets

California Gov. Jerry Brown's negotiations with lawmakers over closing the state's $26.6 billion budget gap dissolved into partisan sniping this week, marking the Democrat's first major setback since he returned as governor in January. n Albany, meanwhile, first-year Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed through with relative ease a $132 billion spending package that makes cuts once unthinkable in the heavily Democratic, pro-union state.