Have a great weekend; here are some links to keep you occupied:

• The Bee has a database where you can see how much money Sacramento took from the municipalities across the state.  From SF, my home, they took over $75 million.

• Awww, shucks. Sarah Palin isn’t coming to Simi Valley after all. Well, there goes my plans for the day!

• The ACLU and United Farm Workers finally sued the state for worker safety violations against 650,000 migrants and farm laborers.  Ten farms have already been shut down this year for violations, but Cal-OHSA simply does not have the resources to carry out its mission of protecting employees from workplace hazards.  Most of the violations have to do with heat injuries; in the most egregious example, workers who were putting tarps over watermelons to keep them from burning had no access to overhead tarps themselves.

• Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-13) has co-sponsored a net neutrality bill in the House with Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA).  The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 would write into law the current system of a free and open Internet and prevent telecom companies from becoming gatekeepers exacting a price for fast content.  Thanks, Rep. Eshoo.

• Fallout from the cuts to the state judiciary keep pouring in.

• Arnold hasn’t taken a position on the Harvey Milk Day bill as of yet. He vetoed it last year, but with President Obama posthumously bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom on him, perhaps things may change.

• An interesting website from the California League of Conservation Voters about an astro-turfing group that actually has some very, um, fishy motives.

• A non-profit has formed to consider buying the Orange County Fairgrounds from the state. Now there’s just the Herculean task of raising a boatload of money.