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Why Meg Whitman Moved To California: Jerry Brown
Sully highlights this brilliant little piece of campaign advertising. Oops!!
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Flashback: 2,000 Pounds of Slut Spilled Onto Interstate 5 Near Palmdale
I don’t know why but I’ve had this oldie-but-goodie video in my head all day long: VH1 Reality Show Bus Crashes In California Causing Major Slut Spill
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Good Budget News For California
Increased tax revenue means a deficit of about $8 billion instead of $15 billion for the state. Which will change the ongoing budget negotiations considerably, I should think. Of course, the big issue...
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Chaos In California
Today, California’s independent commission on redistricting released its congressional map, which as expected has obliterated numerous safe districts and undone decades’ worth of gerrymandering. Here’s...
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Prop 8 Update
Just checked my email and found a little something from Equality California: U.S. District Court Judge James Ware just ruled that former U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker did not have to recuse himself...
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Does Unionization Lead To Higher Unemployment?
According to Matt Cameron, it doesn’t: The answer, of course, is that things are a bit more complicated than Gingrich and other Republicans make them out to be. Leaving aside that there are factors...
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Goodwin Liu to CA Supreme Court
Another chapter to this kooky saga. I’m actually very happy about this–the nation’s loss is our state’s gain. My guess is that he’ll be confirmed easily.
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Tactics And Progressive Policy: A Case Study
I think I’m all tapped out on feeling emo about Obama, so I’ll move onto something else… The death penalty is one of my big issues, and has been for over a decade now. I see it as indefensible and a...
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Why California Politics Suck, Reason 8,000,000
I happened to read that California won’t be getting rid of the death penalty through legislative means anytime soon. This time, the idea was to put it to a public referendum, since simply passing a...
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What I’ve Been Up To: The Death Penalty and SAFE California
Recently, I’ve been flexing the old activist muscles (been too busy with life changes to really do much before) with the SAFE California group that is working to put a question to the voters on...
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Quote of the Week: No Rational Basis
Take it from a practicing lawyer, this quote from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the entire argument for marriage equality in a nutshell: Although the Constitution permits communities to enact...
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I Welcome Their Hatred
Is it strange that I’m proud of this? Public Policy Polling, as is its habit, has a cool, unconventional poll up on its site right now, measuring the favorable/unfavorable ratios of the 50 American...
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Um. About Those Predictions…
I guess Michigan's voters soured on Santorum quicker than I figured. Understandable. In any event, I think this is really cool, and I hope it has an effect. California is nothing if not a leader among...
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Saturday In Local: The Economy Is Still Troubled Here
The Golden State has many problems at this moment in time, with the economy being one of the biggest. And it’s seeing minimal progress at best: California’s labor market continued its slow improvement...
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Get Ready For GOP’s CA Gov Candidate, A Former Minuteman
Let’s just take it as read that the Republican Party is screwed in the state of California, and that a great realistic outcome for them now would be to keep the gubernatorial race relatively close...
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Potential
Via Common Dreams and LR, the LA Times reports on an innovative effort to help homeowners, and the banksters’ concomitant snit-fit: Now [a mortgage relief plan that could use local eminent domain...
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NoCal SoCal, We All Fall Down
Although Josh Marshall cracks wise over t’TPM about Siskiyou County wanting to secede from California, the area has a (sort-of/kind-of) history of wanting to set up shop for itself — see ref. the...
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California: Financially Solvent for Years To Come
I meant to write about this a while back, but it got buried behind a bunch of stuff. I still think it’s worth taking note of: The analyst says in a report issued Wednesday that the state will have...
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The California Puzzle
This month, Democrats managed to get badly defeated at the polls, losing ground pretty much across the board, in some areas dramatically. However, in California, Republicans failed to win a single...
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Library Grape Flight
Got a bunch of little bits so here we go: Jon Stewart’s new movie sounds pretty terrible. I still have positive memories of early 2000s Daily Show, when it really was something of a voice in the...
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