Sorry for the tardiness. here are some links:

• Yippee! Occidental Petroleum found a bunch of oil near Bakersfield. It’s great that the oil companies can get all this stuff from our land and all, how’s about they pay for it?

• Very, very bad news for the community colleges. The amount of money that they had expected had been based on the 2008 budget, but cuts to the budget mean that we don’t draw down all these stimulus dollars.  

• An initiative to legalize marijuana has been approved for circulation. If the two East Bay advocates can get it on the ballot, it will be in November 2010.

• Huzzah! The list of parks to close has apparently been drastically cut, and will not be released for a long time. I suppose that memo stating that it would cost more to close them than keep them open made a difference? Or the letters from Republicans who didn’t want parks in their districts closed b/c of losses due to tourism.  To the first point, ya, logic is good. To the Republicans? Vote for a good budget, and you can keep your parks, until then, you’ll like what you get and take it.