Links:

* Happy Birthday to Capitol Weekly. The new version preceded us by a few days back in 2005.  It is kind of scary to look back at some of those old diary posts I (Brian) wrote back in the day.

* Prop 23 Miscellaneous Notes: Another $250K for the No on 23 campaign based upon the opportunity for new green jobs. Koch Industries, an oil company, is a big supporter of Prop 23. Oh, and they like to fund climate denial “studies.”  FInally, HuffPo has a good story on the Texas oil companies and the Adam Smith Foundation.

* Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have been squabbling over pay and pensions for a while.  You’d think that, given her incessant television and private plane appearances, that she might want to cut back on that line of attack.

* Workers Comp insurance premiums went up sharply, mostly because Schwarzenegger has refused to let any increases for inflation.

* The Senate voted to make public university foundation records public after the CSU-Stanislaus debacle with Sarah Palin.

* Robert is heading out of town for a well-deserved vacation, but he’ll be back on Calitics’ 5th anniversary of September 1. Let’s hope California hasn’t fully melted down by then.