It’s always good to re-emphasize this: please let us know if we can help with anything. As we’re frequently accused of being too “inside baseball”, please tell us if we get a little too deep in the weeds. To the links!
• It looks like we’ll have a couple of electric cars to choose from next year. In addition to the Chevy Volt, CODA says they will be selling their electric sedan in California next year for a bit over $30,000 after government incentives.
• A group of grassroots activists have formed a new group: Fix the CA budget Now. They’ve got a Facebook group and are working on setting up a website. There certainly is a lot of work to be done on fixing that budget.
• Indian gambling revenue in the Sacramento region is slipping. There’s no data in that article about the rest of the state, but it’s down by almost 5% nationally.
• Is “funemployment” (the condition of enjoying being unemployed) really newsworthy?
• CDP Chair John Burton came out swinging against Arnold’s May revise.
• Republicans got Capitol Weekly to write up their press release about a poll showing support for right-wing budget “reform” ideas, but Noreen Evans put them in context. “If voters were really with Republicans on the issues, how could their numbers be shrinking so rapidly?” Evans said. “We know that voters want better schools, health care reform, and better transportation systems. Achieving these goals costs money. Polling abstract budget concepts which undercut these goals is not useful unless the questions are linked with the consequences of the concepts.”
• Pedro Nava officially announced his run for AG. Here’s the Pedro Nava for AG website. I can’t wait to see a debate for that gig. We’ll have to rent out an auditorium just for the people running.
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Definitely not too ‘deep in the weeds’. Great info, well presented. This is the real way to keep in touch with what is going on in California. Def the best California blog out there.
As for ‘funemployment’, I have always found that articles like that serve to reinforce conservative memes that the young are lazy (don’t really want to work) and that the unemployed are just milking off the system (it assumes that the others, that the article doesn’t talk about directly, as also enjoying life, rather than looking for a job or working hard). I rarely see the more meaningful articles of how tough it is to be unemployed, how hard it is to find work, and what services there are (or were) to help people get back on their feet.
I feel like I know much more than the average LAT or Chron reader (not because I’m better, but because those peoples, especially the Times, just don’t provide adequate coverage).
That “funemployment” article was really rather vapid – take a word that’s bouncing around Twitter and make it into a news item?