Links:

• Dan Walters has a eulogy for Don Peterson a centrist from Humboldt County who lobbied for local governments. And the Bee also has an obituary for Paul Gerowitz, a longtime Assembly staffer and executive director of the state’s criminal defense lawyers group.

• CalPERS is looking at cutting long-term care benefits for its members.

• At the SoCal ports, exports are up, but imports are down.

• The Oakland A’s are looking to get a stadium deal in the South Bay, but the proposed stadium is in the Giants “exclusive area.” So, there’s going to be a tussle before anything happens.

• The folks at Consumer Watchdog do not like what Mercury Insurance is up to with its “continuous coverage discount initiative.” They say it’s just a surcharge for anybody who decides to stop coverage for whatever reason, leaving the country for a while (ie soldiers), deciding to ditch the car for a while, whatever.