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Brown: Calif. comes back but challenged by drought

By Juliet Williams
Published January 22, 2014 9:07pm ET
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Brown: Calif. comes back but challenged by drought
Gov. Jerry Brown displays a playing card with his dog, Sutter, on it as he gives the annual State of the State speech before a joint session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Brown delivered a dual message in his annual address to the Legislature, that a California resurgence is well underway but is threatened by economic and environmental uncertainties. On the backside of the playing card is a chart showing how high deficits follow balanced budgets, and warned that even though there is a budget surplus, lawmakers should not overspend.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) | Rich Pedroncelli

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday delivered dual messages in his annual address to the Legislature: California’s resurgence is well underway but is threatened by economic and environmental uncertainties.

Chief among those uncertainties is that the severe drought gripping the nation’s most populous state and already forcing water cutbacks among farms and cities eventually could exact a financial toll on the state’s improving finances.

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