For some long-running political and policy storylines in California, important -- and close to final -- chapters were written this week.
Our podcast tackles two of them: Gov. Jerry Brown quietly signing the new state budget for the fiscal year that begins at month's end, and what's likely the last big legislative debate over Senate Bill 277 and its erasure of most exemptions from vaccines for California schoolchildren.
KQED News' Marisa Lagos and I also take a brief look at the California connections, and impact, of Friday's historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.