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Remind me again how much
of California’s economic growth since the end of the boom has been
based in real estate…

• Calculated Risk: Bay Area home sales slowest since 1992
  http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2007/09/bay-area-home-sales-slowest-since-1992.html
• Irvine Housing Blog » The Market Bottom
  http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/09/13/the-last-market-bottom/
• Bouphonia: Growth at the Edges
  http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2007/09/growth-at-edges.html

The CA Dem Leadership’s
Pet Project and other “Reform”

• The California Majority Report // US Term Limits Backed
  Group Not Ok in Oklahoma
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2293
• Media Matters – California Fox affiliate misrepresented
  GOP’s electoral-vote measure
  http://mediamatters.org/items/200709130009
• voiceofsandiego.org: Opinion… Electoral Shenanigans
  http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/09/13/opinion/01goldsborough091307.txt

Local Motions

• SoHum Parlance: Photo of the week
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/09/photo-of-week.html
• The Liberal OC » Kang vs Shea: the Safe Seat
  Election
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/kang-vs-shea-the-safe-seat-election/
• Left In SF » Columnist advocates blowing up the
  Goldent Gate Bridge
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2185
• Left In SF » Treating People Like Cattle
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2186
• California Progress Report – Fighting For Fare Wages: The
  Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/fighting_for_fa.html
• The Liberal OC » Want to Help Democrats Win in
  OC? Become a Precinct Captain!
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/13/want-to-help-democrats-win-in-oc-become-a-precinct-captain/
• The Liberal OC » Mendez vs. Westminster Postage
  Stamp Celebrated
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/13/mendez-vs-westminster-postage-stamp-celebrated/
• SoHum Parlance: Humboldt Democrats contact AG re
  Arkley/Glass confrontation
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/09/humboldt-democrats-contact-ag-re.html

Watching the Governor

• DownWithTyranny!: SCHWARZENEGGER SAYS NO TO IRAQ VOTE
  &
  INDICATES IF YOU WANT AN END TO WAR DEFEAT CONGRESSMEN LIKE DREIER,
  DOOLITTLE, MILLER, ROHRABACHER & BONO
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/09/schwarzenegger-says-no-to-iraq-vote.html
• California Progress Report – Threat to Civil Rights
  Enforcement in California from the Governor’s Office
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/threat_to_civil.html
• Sierra Club California Blog Spot: Governor Schwarzenegger
  Sacks His Own Fish and Game Commission Appointee
  http://sierraclubca.blogspot.com/2007/09/governor-schwarzenegger-dont-be-bullied.html
• California Progress Report – Tidal Wave of Resentment Could
  Wash Out G.O.P Chances as
  Republicans Shun Schwarzenegger’s “High
  Ground”
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/tidal_wave_of_r.html

Everything Else

• Working Californians | Traffic and Carpool Lanes
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/12/traffic_and_carpool_lanes
• happening-here?: Pelosi blows hot air
  http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/09/pelosi-blows-hot-air.html
• California Progress Report – Sex Offenders Shunted Into
  Small Republican Rural Towns – By Republican Lawmakers?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/sex_offenders_s.html
• Creek Running North » Nature writing
  http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/nature_writing/
• LA Observed: California editor at LAT
  http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/09/california_editor_at_lat.php
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2294
• California Progress Report – The Worst Model for California
  Health Care Would Be Workers’ Compensation “Reform”
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/the_worst_model.html
• The BRAD BLOG : The CORRECT Phone Number to Demand a Ban on
  Touch-Screen Voting…
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5061
• Working Californians | Happy New Year to the California
  Legislature
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/13/happy_new_year_to_the_california_legislature
• California Progress Report – Will Special Session Yield
  California Health Care Reform?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/post_47.html

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When I was a student, we
called this cramming — didn’t work very well then either

• California Progress Report – Sentencing Commission Law
  Among Over 200 Bills Left for the Last Day of
  the 2007 California Legislative Session
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/sentencing_comm.html
• California Progress Report – Three Ring Circus in
  Sacramento: Special Session on Health and Water,
  Tonight is Deadline for Governor to Decide Whether to Allow Iraq Vote,
  A Flood of Bills Pass by the Hour Including More Flood Safety
  Legislation
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/three_ring_circ.html
• California Progress Report – California State Senate
  Adjourns 2007 Session While Bizarre Middle
  of the Night Hearing Held on Newly Minted Prison Guard Pay Bill
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_stat_17.html
• The Liberal OC » Leno/DeVore Industrial Hemp Bill
  Passes
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/lenodevore-industrial-hemp-bill-passes/
• California Progress Report – End of Session: California
  Legislation That Passed to the Governor’s
  Desk–And Why You May See Some Zombies Today
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/end_of_session_2.html

The Librul Academy: or
how the taxpayers of California still employ John Yoo as a law
professor at UC Berkeley

• Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports: New UC Irvine Law School
  Hires Chemerinsky as Dean, Then Fires Him for Political Reasons
  http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2007/09/new-uc-irvine-l.html
• The Left Coaster: Who Controls The UC Regents?
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011001.php
• The Liberal OC » Too liberal for OC?
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/too-liberal-for-oc/

Big fish, smaller ponds

• Left In SF » What’s the alternative to
  Wi-Fi?
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2180
• Left In SF » You’re fired!
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2181
• Brian Dennert here: Ventura City Council Candidate
  http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/dennert/archives/2007/09/ventura_city_el.html
• Working Californians | DWP is on the hot seat over outages
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/11/dwp_is_on_the_hot_seat_over_outages
• The Ojai Post – Stop the Trucks: Overweight Trucks Damage
  Infrastructure
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/stop_the_trucks_overweight_tru.shtml
• BeyondChron » Was Newsom Firing Spree a Ploy to
  Raise Campaign Cash?
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4906#more

Candidates are people too

• Dump Doolittle: Natural Selection
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/natural-selection.html
• From the Fever Swamp: Harman Pre-Emptively Negotiates Away
  Our Constitional Rights
  http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/harman-pre-emptively-negotiates-away.html
• Daily Kos: CA-52: Dems recruit Navy SEAL
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/12/121658/354
• DownWithTyranny!: LYNN WOOLSEY TAKES A REAL LEADERSHIP
  STAND– TELLS PROGRESSIVES TO TAKE ON REACTIONARY INCUMBENTS
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/09/lynn-woolsey-takes-real-leadership.html

Everything else

• Media Matters – AP reported California GOP “endorsed”
  Electoral College measure, but not that top GOP lawyer initiated it
  http://mediamatters.org/items/200709100001
• Media Matters – Fox News’ Estrich misrepresented California
  Democratic electoral vote initiatives
  http://mediamatters.org/items/200709100004
• The California Majority Report // Tuesday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2290
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2291
• The Left Coaster: shouting fire in a crowded landscape
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010991.php
• California Progress Report – Senator Sheila
  Kuehl’s Floor Statement Health Care Reform and AB 8
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/senator_sheila.html
• Badlands Journal » Growth robs water from
  existing residents
  http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=380
• California Policy Inbox » California Shows
  Steepest Decline Nationally in Number of Gun Dealers
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=384
• The BRAD BLOG : The California Top-To-Bottom Review Is
  Still Incomplete
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5053
• Politics in the Zeros » Tar sands: The oil
  junkie’s last fix
  http://polizeros.com/2007/09/12/tar-sands-the-oil-junkies-last-fix/
• Elliott Petty @ Courage Campaign | Grocery Companies Want
  Employees To Pay Share of Health Care Costs
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/elliottpetty/Bh9
• cab drollery: A Sense Of Democracy
  http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2007/09/sense-of-democracy.html
• BeyondChron: San Francisco’s Alternative Online Daily News
  » Nationwide Housing “Crash” A Boon for
  Landlords
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4905#more
• California Progress Report – Democracy Under Attack Right
  Here in California by Those Who Block Ballot Petitions
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/democracy_under.html

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Things to Read Today

• j a c k *: Cost and Consequences…
  http://www.jackasterisk.com/j_a_c_k_/2007/09/cost-and-conseq.html
• Bitch Ph.D.: Vota la Raza
  http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2007/09/vota-la-raza.html
• California Progress Report – Covering the End of the
  California Legislative Session Has Many Challenges and Yet is So
  Important
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/covering_the_en.html

Health Care (AB 8)

• The Bayne of Blog’s – California Notes: California Labor to
  announce support for amended AB 8
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/09/california-labor-to-announce-support.html
• California Progress Report – California Democratic Health
  Bill Receives Broad Support from Labor and
  Consumer Groups—Will Be Voted on This Morning in Senate –
  California
  Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_demo_7.html
• Working Californians | AB 8: “Really Great”
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/10/ab_8_really_great
• California Progress Report – California State Senate Passes
  Nunez-Perata Health Care Bill:
  Assembly Debating AB 8 Now for Final Passage
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_stat_15.html
• California Progress Report – California State Assembly
  Gives Final Passage to AB
  8—Democratic Health Care Legislation Goes to Governor
  Schwarzenegger
  Who Will Veto It and Call a Special Session
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_stat_16.html
• California Progress Report – Perata on Health Care Bill
  Passed By California Legislature
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/perata_on_healt.html
• California Progress Report – AB 8 Health Care As Amended:
  Calling the Question, Point of Information…
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/ab_8_health_car.html
• California Progress Report – Recap and Analysis of
  Yesterday’s Legislative Floor Debates on California Health
  Care
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/recap_and_analy.html
• California Progress Report – Commonsense Bill to Prevent
  the Spread of AIDS and Other Diseases from
  Prisons to the California Public is on Governor Schwarzenegger’s Desk
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/commonsense_bil.html

Environment &
Energy

• Public Utilities Commission Streamlines Solar Program ::
  The Ojai Post
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/public_utilities_commission_st.shtml
• Daily Kos: Petitioning started to overturn California’s
  anti-nuclear law
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/10/32919/1433
• California Progress Report – Truth in Advertising? Just Say
  No to New California Nuke Initiative
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/truth_in_advert.html
• Progressive States Network | Utility Decoupling: Giving
  Utilities Incentives to Promote Energy Efficiency
  http://www.progressivestates.org/blog/672/utility-decoupling-giving-utilities-incentives-to-promote-energy-efficiency
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Guest Commentary: Sierra
  Pacific is Clear Cutting in the Sierras
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/09/guest-commentary-sierra-pacific-is.html
• Sierra Club California Blog Spot: Cleaning the Central
  Valley’s Air: Over the Objections of Nicole Parra (& the
  Republicans)
  http://sierraclubca.blogspot.com/2007/09/cleaning-central-valleys-air-over.html

Reform Efforts and
“Reform” Efforts

• The BRAD BLOG : Sorting Out Election Reform
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5048
• California Progress Report – The California Legislature
  Must Act on Redistricting Reform NOW
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/the_california_40.html
• California Progress Report – Attorney Seeks Probe of
  California Electoral Vote Plan
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/attorney_seeks.html
• California Progress Report – California Republican Party:
  Dirty Tricks and “Four More Years”–In Iraq
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_repu_9.html
• California Progress Report – Dividing California’s
  Electoral Votes by Congressional Districts Would
  Increase the Chance of Electing a President Who Lost the Popular Vote
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/dividing_califo.html

Education

• The Liberal OC: CA Teachers Oppose No Child Left Behind
  Changes
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/10/ca-teachers-oppose-no-child-left-behind-changes/
• . . . Surf Putah: NCLB and Valley Oak: A Connection?
  http://surfputah.blogspot.com/2007/09/nclb-and-valley-oak-connection.html

Republicans

• Dump Doolittle: John Doolittle: He’s a tough nut to crack
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/john-doolittle-hes-tough-nut-to-crack.html
• The Progressive Connection:: Ranting Republicans Repel —
  Republicans?
  http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=136
• The Liberal OC » GOP Convention: You
  Can’t Say Republicans Weren’t Warned
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/10/gop-convention-you-cant-say-republicans-werent-warned/
• Blognonymous: California GOP Prefers a Texan Wingnut To
  Schwarzenegger
  http://blognonymous.com/2007/09/california-gop-prefers-texan-wingnut-to.html

Homes

• BeyondChron » New Housing Proposals, Same Problems
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4895#more
• Irvine Housing Blog » Blog Archive »
  The California Social Contract
  http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/09/10/the-fb-plea/
• Politics in the Zeros » L.A. home sales collapse
  http://polizeros.com/2007/09/11/la-home-sales-collapse/

Electoral Politics
Generally

• terryfaceplace: San Diego County Democratic Club Convention
  http://terryfaceplace.blogspot.com/2007/09/san-diego-county-democratic-party.html
• From the Fever Swamp: CA-36:Cook Partisan Voting Index of D
  +11
  http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/ca-36cook-partisan-voting-index-of-d-11.html
• BeyondChron » Obama Rocks the House in San
  Francisco
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4897#more
• The Liberal OC » Swing districts to watch
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/10/swing-districts-to-watch/
• From the Fever Swamp: “I am someone who supports an ongoing
  mission in Iraq”
  http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-am-someone-who-supports-ongoing.html

All the Rest

• terryfaceplace: A new Freeway Blogger video
  http://terryfaceplace.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-freeway-blogger-video.html
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Big Announcement: Vanguard
  Announces Hiring of First Beat Writer
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/09/big-announcement-vanguard-announces.html
• Speak Out California!: While California Dreams- Weekly
  Update Vol.1, No.14
  http://speakoutca.org/archives/2007/09/while_californi_11.php
• happening-here?: Street theater in the California ‘burbs
  http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/09/street-theater-in-california-burbs.html
• The California Majority Report // Sunday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2287
• The California Majority Report // Monday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2289
• The
  Mad Professah Lectures: The Wall Las Memorias, an AIDS memorial in
  Lincoln Park
  http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/09/wall-las-memorias-aids-memorial-in.html
• There Is No Blog: The Economy of the Rich, by the Rich, and
  for the Rich
  http://bendingleft.blogspot.com/2007/09/economy-of-rich-by-rich-and-for-rich.html
• SFist: Happy Birfday BART
  http://sfist.com/2007/09/10/happy_birfday_b.php
• happening-here?:
  The making of one Minuteman
  http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/09/making-of-one-minuteman.html

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The Thing You Should Read
Today

• The Progressive Connection: Fainting Goats…Part Deux
  http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=132

Charlie Brown v. 15%
Doolittle: Various Takes

• Dump Doolittle: Doolittle aide describes experience with
  grand jury as “uneventful”
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/doolittle-aide-describes-experience.html
• Dump Doolittle: Doolittle says critics are “weasels”
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/doolittle-says-critics-are-weasels.html
• Dump Doolittle: Doolittle declares: “I am running again.
  Period.”
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/doolittle-declares-i-am-running-again.html
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Charlie Brown Announces He
  will Run Again For the 4th Congressional District
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/09/charlie-brown-announces-he-will-run.html
• Out of the Blue, Into the Black: Charlie Brown Launches
  Second Sortie Against Doolittle for California Congressional Seat
  http://tgangale1.blogspot.com/2007/09/charlie-brown-launches-second-sortie.html
• DownWithTyranny!: IT’S OFFICIAL– CHARLIE BROWN IS RUNNING
  AGAIN– AND SO IS DOOLITTLE!!
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-official-charlie-brown-is-running.html

Health Care

• Burbank Democratic Club: I Quit AARP today – I want real
  health care
  http://burbankdemocraticclub.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-quit-aarp-today-i-want-real-health.html
• Elliott Petty @ Courage Campaign
  | Labor’s Push for Universal Health Care Makes
  National Headlines
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/elliottpetty/VG9
• The Bayne of Blog: A bad healthcare bill is worse than no
  bill
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/09/bad-healthcare-bill-is-worse-than-no.html
• California Progress Report – California Health Reform Heats
  Up In Final Days of Legislature
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_heal_7.html

Environment

• LAist: Palmdale Sheriff’s Station Waters Lawn in Rain Storm
  http://laist.com/2007/09/08/palmdale_sherif.php
• Seeing the Forest: Today’s Housing Bubble Post – Big Houses
  Cost More To Heat And Cool, Bad For Environment
  http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/09/todays_housing_117.htm
• California Progress Report – Major Breakthrough on
  California Flood Protection Legislation
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/major_breakthro.html
• Working Californians: Cleaner Air and Greenhouse Gas
  Reduction Coming
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/07/cleaner_air_and_greenhouse_gas_reduction_coming
• Badlands Journal » Stressors
  http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=377
• Bouphonia: Friday Hope Blogging
  http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2007/09/friday-hope-blogging.html
• California Progress Report – Avoiding Another Katrina:
  Package of Three California Flood
  Protection Bills Go to Governor Schwarzenegger While Two Others Await
  Final Passage
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/avoiding_anothe.html

Basic Fairness (That’s
still an American value, right?  I get so confused.)

• California Progress Report – California Legislature Sends
  Gender Neutral Marriage Bill to Governor Schwarzenegger
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_legi_13.html
• SoHum Parlance: Same-sex marriage bill back on the
  Governor’s desk (click through for a link to a history of the issue)
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/09/same-sex-marriage-bill-back-on.html

All The Rest

• The California Majority Report // A Head Scratcher
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2275
• The California Majority Report // Friday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2274
• The California Majority Report // Saturday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2283
• k / o: Steny Hoyer is no friend of Jerry McNerney
  http://kidoaklandblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/steny-hoyer-is-no-friend-of-jerry.html
• From the Fever Swamp: Whither Jane Harman on the Next $200
  Billion for Occupation of Iraq?
  http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/whither-jane-harman-on-next-200-billion.html
• Left In SF » SFUSD Superintendent: “I
  Represent the Children”
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2171
• From the Fever Swamp: Being too hard on Harman
  http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/being-too-hard-on-harman.html
• BeyondChron » Perata and Migden Join To Stop Leno
  Bills
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4889#more
• California Progress Report – Why the California Legislature
  Usually Gets It Wrong On Public Education
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/why_the_califor_1.html
• Badlands Journal » Behind the curve
  http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=379
• California Progress Report – California Senate Passes Gun
  Microstamping–Governor to Get
  Prescription Labeling, Police Interrogation, College Textbook
  Bills–and Measure Gutting Local Campaign Finance Laws
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_sena_15.html
• The BRAD BLOG : The Latest on the Holt Election Reform Bill
  and the Davis Amendment to Restrict DRE Touch-Screen Voting Systems
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5041
• The BRAD BLOG : Holt Election Reform Bill in
  Meltdown…Again
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5042
• California Progress Report – The First Shall Be Last: The
  Dangerous Decline in Primary Turnouts
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/the_first_shall.html

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Environment (there was a
lot today for some reason)

• California Progress
  Report: Schwarzenegger’s Folly–That Reductions in Water Exports Can Be
  Offset
  by Water Delivery through a Peripheral Canal
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/schwarzeneggers_13.html
• Daily Kos: a REAL PIKER
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/5/7475/34468
• . . . Surf Putah: Burning Season
  http://surfputah.blogspot.com/2007/09/burning-season.html
• BeyondChron » Recycling Ourselves to Extinction
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4888#more
• Politics in the Zeros » The Long Emergency, by
  James Howard Kunstler
  http://polizeros.com/2007/09/06/the-long-emergency-by-james-howard-kunstler/
• California Progress
  Report: Cleaning Up Air Pollution from California’s Ports Will Have to
  Wait Until Next Year
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/cleaning_up_air.html

Protecting our Health

• California Progress
  Report: Landmark Legislation to Ban Dangerous Chemical in Children’s
  Toys
  Clears Legislature–Governor Expected to be Lobbied Heavily by Industry
  to Veto
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/landmark_legisl.html
• The Liberal OC » Ackerman/Correa: Let them eat
  Phtalates
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/05/ackermancorrea-let-them-eat-phtalates/
• California Progress
  Report: The Truth About Brominated and Chlorinated Fire Retardants and
  Why They Should be Banned in California
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/the_truth_about.html

California Policy Inbox

• California Workforce Faces Significant Economic Challenges
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=381
• Californian African-Americans Have Higher Death Rates than
  Other Groups
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=382
• Californians Want Health Care Reform but Are Skeptical That
  It’ll Get Done
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=383

Everything Else

• SoHum Parlance: Paper ballot panacea?
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/09/paper-ballot-panacea.html
• Metroblogging Los Angeles: The First Day of School
  http://blogging.la/archives/2007/09/the_first_day_of_school.phtml
• Wilshire & Washington: Arnold Gets the Message
  http://www.wilshireandwashington.com/2007/09/arnold-gets-the.html
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: The Problem of Paid
  Canvassers in the Referendum and Initiative Process
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/09/problem-of-paid-canvassers-in.html
• California Progress
  Report: California Senate Sends Governor Bills Requiring Open UC and
  CSU Meetings on Executive Compensation, Banning Trans Fats in Schools,
  Fines for Voter Intimidation, Emergency Preparedness for Colleges, and
  Requiring Corroboration of “Snitch” Testimony
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_sena_14.html
• LAist: Wilshire Subway Watch: Congressman Henry Waxman,
  Subway Enemy No. 1
  http://laist.com/2007/09/06/wilshire_subway_11.php
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2268
• California Progress
  Report: California Assembly Sends Governor Major Gender Pay
  Discrimination Legislation and a Slew of Other Bills
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_asse_20.html
• BeyondChron » School Beat: The Populist, Radical School Food Revolution
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4887#more
• Working Californians: Praise for Workers Exposes DWP
  Infrastructure Needs
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/06/praise_for_workers_exposes_dwp_infrastructure_needs
• The Liberal OC » The Republican Party $upport$
  Death
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/06/the-republican-party-upport-death/
• Bouphonia: A Third World Look
  http://bouphonia.blogspot.com/2007/09/third-world-look.html
• The California Majority Report // New Ads Target Electoral
  College Power Grab with Taxes and War
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2271
• Speak Out California!: Senate Bill 974 and The Art of the
  Possible
  http://speakoutca.org/archives/2007/09/senate_bill_974.php
• Surfk9: Disgusted
  http://surfk9.typepad.com/surfk9/2007/09/disgusted.html

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Oh, it’s all about the
electoral “reform”

• Daily Kos: The California Ballot Initiative: Good Enough
  for TX & FL, Too!
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/4/17112/86182
• Daily Kos: California Electoral Vote Proposal: Effects on
  Past Elections
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/4/162844/5481
• Daily Kos: Do they have LAWYERS in CA?
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/4/23718/72672
• Hullabaloo: Swift Balloting 2008
  http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/swift-balloting-2008-by-digby-in-case.html
• Daily Kos: CA-Init: Election Stealing Initiative has little
  early support
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/5/125523/8311
• Daily Kos: The CA Constitution
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/5/104412/2550
• California Progress Report: For $2 Million You Can Get Just
  About Anything on the
  Ballot–2008 with 3 Elections Will Have Plenty 
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/schrag_for_2_mi.html

California Dem
Leadership’s Pet Project

• The California Majority Report // US Term Limits Names New
  Chief and Makes Hyprocisy an Art Form
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2256
• The California Majority Report // Anti-Term Limits
  Reformers Sounding Like Miss South Carolina
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2261
• The California Majority Report // The Flash Report’s Blog
  Blopper
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2264

Things that should
matter, but which freak people out so badly that they don’t like to
think about them

• Spocko’s Brain: Katrina refugees are sniveling whiners and
  freeloaders says SF Radio Host for ABC Radio Station KSFO
  http://www.spockosbrain.com/2007/09/lee-rodgers-people-in-new-orleans-are
• Creek Running North » There is no balance of
  nature
  http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/there_is_no_balance_of_nature/
• Pacific Views: You Can Panic Now
  http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/003025.html

Health Care

• The California Majority Report // The California Nurses
  Association’s Push Poll: How Desperate Can They Get?
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2263
• Working Californians | Health Care Deal Could Include
  Ballot Measure
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/05/health_care_deal_could_include_ballot_measure

15% Doolittle

• Dump Doolittle: A third unnamed Doolittle staffer subpoenaed
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/third-unnamed-doolittle-staffer.html
• Daily Kos: CA-04: Brown crushing Doolittle
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/5/15537/53649

Things to think about

• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Know Your Rights Even if
  You Are Completely Innocent
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/09/know-your-rights-even-if-you-are.html
• The Progressive Connection:: Fainting Goat Dems
  http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=131
• A Tiny Revolution: Democrats And The Iron Law Of
  Institutions
  http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001705.html

All the Rest

• Left In SF » EarthLink bails on San Francisco
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2161
• A Progressive Alamedan: Alameda Meetup for John Edwards
  http://progala.blogspot.com/2007/09/alameda-meetup-for-john-edwards.html
• Greetings from Huntington Beach: The Southern Swell is,
  well, swell
  http://hbdowntown.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/the-southern-sw.html
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2265
• The California Majority Report // Tony Quinn = Republican
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2260
• California Progress Report: End of Session Rush Begins as
  California Legislature Passes
  Bills on Toxics, Preservation of the California Condor, Voter
  Intimidation, Domestic Partners, Immigration, and Recycling 
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/end_of_session_1.html
• The BRAD BLOG : EXCLUSIVE: AMENDMENT TO BAN/RESTRICT
  TOUCH-SCREEN DRES MAY BE BROUGHT TO HOLT BILL!
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5032
• California Progress Report: This Year’s California State
  Budget: Third in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl–The Trailer
  Bills 
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/this_years_cali_2.html
• The Ojai Post: Property tax exclusion for solar energy
  systems
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/property_tax_exclusion_for_sol.shtml
• California Progress Report: If Not Now,
  “When” is it Time for Unified Disaster Preparedness
  in California? 
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/if_not_now_when.html
• California Progress Report: Why “Vote Us Out of
  Iraq” on the California Ballot Makes Sense to Me
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/why_vote_us_out.html
• Elliott Petty @ Courage Campaign: Orange County Housing
  Activists in Action
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/elliottpetty/Vjg

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The One Two Thing[s] to Read
Today

• Daily Kos: levers and fulcrum points
  
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/2/182330/6619

• Daily Kos: levers and fulcrum points: the death penalty and marriage equality
  
  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/4/14145/41011

The Dignity of Labor

• California Progress Report: Labor Day 2007 Thoughts From
  Davis, California 
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/_labor_day_2007.html
• Left In SF » A Labor Day message from the
  California Labor Federation
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2165
• cab drollery: What Unions?
  http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-unions.html
• Working Californians | Labor Strong, Opportunities for
  Building
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/04/labor_strong_opportunities_for_building
• California Progress Report: Don’t Forget the Injured Worker
  on Labor Day in California
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/dont_forget_the.html
• The Bayne of Blog’s: Honor labor by strengthening
  retirement security for all, not a few CEO’s
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/09/honor-labor-by-strengthening-retirement_04.html

Health Care

• The California Majority Report // California Nurses Wastes
  Hundreds of Thousands More on Anti-Health Care Reform Mailers
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2250
• Working Californians | Nothing New on Health Care
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/01/nothing_new_on_health_care
• California Progress Report: California Health Care Reform
  by the End of Next Week?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_heal_6.html

The Environment

• California Progress Report: A Tiny California Fish That
  Makes a Big Difference
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/a_tiny_californ.html
• If I Ran the Zoo: Sunday Sierrablogging
  http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2007/09/sunday-sierrablogging.html
• California Progress Report: California Flood Policy Is
  Like…Gymnastics?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_floo_1.html
• California Progress Report: The Salinas Californian and the
  Vegetable Industrial Complex
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/the_salinas_cal.html
• California Progress Report: Job Killer or Opportunity to
  Help Clean Up L.A.’s Filthy Air?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/job_killer_or_o.html
• cab drollery: Water Warning
  http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2007/09/water-warning.html
• California Progress Report: The Latest in California Water
  Wars: Federal Judge Order to State and Federal Governments to Reduce
  Pumping to Protect Delta Smelt–How Will We Respond?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/the_latest_in_c.html

Electoral, Term Limits,
Redistricting Iniative “Reforms”

• Erik Love @ Courage Campaign: Courage Campaign Educates
  Arnold About Republican Power Grab
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/eriklove/VjS
• Left-Over: How Stupid Would Californians Have to Be?
  http://left-over.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-stupid-would-californians-have-to.html
• The California Majority Report // Electoral College Power
  Grab Already Losing Support, According to Exclusive Poll
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2254
• California Progress Report: Schwarzenegger Faces Defining
  Tests on “Post-Partisanship”
  With Decisions on Iraq War Vote and Last Minute Presidential Election
  Changes
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/schwarzenegger_52.html
• The California Majority Report // The Flash Report Fatwah
  on Term Limits Falls Short as GOP Leaders Fail to Sign
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2255

CA-03 and CA-04

• Dump Doolittle: John Doolittle lashes out at Ted Gaines
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/08/john-doolittle-lashes-out-at-ted-gaines.html
• Dump Doolittle: Doolittle both more determined and
  embattled than ever
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/doollittle-both-more-determined-and.html
• Nite Swimming: Bill Durston will run again for the CA-03
  seat!
  http://niteswimming.blogspot.com/2007/09/bill-durston-will-run-again-for-ca-03.html

Everything Else

• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat (Older)
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2251
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat (Newer)
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2253
• skippy the bush kangaroo: makes you wonder just who
  http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2007/09/makes-you-wonder-just-who.html
• California Progress Report: “Final Review of 2007-2008
  State Budget Act” by Assembly Budget
  Chair John Laird is our site of the day
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/final_review_of.html
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Commentary: A Closer Look
  at the School Board Race
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/09/commentary-closer-look-at-school-board.html
• Jerry McNerney’s Blog: Congressman McNerney on serving you:
  “It’s been an incredible experience”
  http://weblog.jerrymcnerney.com/2007/09/congressman-mcn.html
• Speak Out California!: While California Dreams – Weekly
  Update Vol.1 No. 13
  http://speakoutca.org/archives/2007/09/while_californi_8.php
• Educational Justice: Progressive Forum: Sacramento
  http://edjustice.blogspot.com/2007/09/progressive-forum-sacramento.html
• California Progress Report: Hold onto Your Hats –
  California Legislature Will Pass Hundreds of Bills in a Little Over a
  Week
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/hold_onto_your.html
• The Liberal OC » Terminator Snubs Fleischman
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/04/terminator-snubs-fleischman/
• Daily Kos: The political machine vs. the grassroots
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/4/154620/5810
• Elliott Petty @ Courage Campaign: Democrats Prepare Fight
  for Fair & Secure Voting
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/elliottpetty/Vjx
• SoHum Parlance: The SF gay community and gentrification
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/09/sf-gay-community-and-gentrification.html

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• The California Majority Report // Assemblymember Krekorian
  on Plastics in the Ocean
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2246
• BeyondChron » Judge Keeps Prop H on the Ballot
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4872#more
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Interview with School Board
  Candidate Bob Schelen
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-school-board-candidate_31.html
• Reports of Demise of California Term Limits Initiative Are
  Premature – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/reports_of_demi.html
• Budget Cuts Only Deepen Our Resolve for a World-class
  Transportation System in California – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/budget_cuts_onl.html
• California Health Care Reform Boiling Down to Deal Between
  Legislative Democrats and Governor–Nunez Optimistic About Health Care
  and Redistricting–and Term Limits – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/california_heal_5.html
• Andrew’s Wild and Wonderful Blog: From Sacramento to
  Hell… And Finally Back Home
  http://atdnext.blogspot.com/2007/08/from-sacramento-to-hell-and-finally.html
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2248
• Perata Answers Questions on California Iraq Ballot Measure,
  Health Care, and Redistricting–Candid Comments as the End of Session
  Approaches – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_answers.html
• Bitch Ph.D.: On Not Buying a House in California
  http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2007/08/but-but-i-thought-we-were-rich.html
• California Senator Dean Florez Questions Results of Leafy
  Green Industry Self-Regulation in Light of Salmonella Outbreak –
  California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/california_sena_13.html
• California Policy Inbox » Poverty a Persisting
  Problem in California
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=380
• Yesterday was Judgment Day for Most Major Environmental
  Bills in the California Legislature – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/yesterday_was_j.html
• A Little Cold Water on Special Session of California
  Legislature to Deal with Bills Sidetracked by Extended Budget Imbroglio
  – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/a_little_cold_w.html
• Health Reform and the Year of Magical Thinking in
  California – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/health_reform_a.html

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Budgets are Moral
Documents

• Perata: With Ballot Box Mandates on Spending, Elected
  Leaders are
  not in Charge of What We Spend in California–The Need for Budget
  Reform – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_with_bal.html
• Broken Process Yields a Bad Budget for California –
  California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/broken_process.html
• The Bayne of Blog’s – California Notes: Sheila Kuehl essay:
  The Budget Stalemate
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/sheila-kuehl-essay-budget-stalemate.html

Health Care

• Will There Be a Health Bill in California? Politics v.
  Policy – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/will_there_be_a.html
• D-Day: Arnold Does The Right Thing On SCHIP
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/08/arnold-does-right-thing-on-schip.html
• The Mad Professah Lectures: CA Legislature Passes Migden’s
  Bill To Expand Reproductive Technology to HIV+ Men
  http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/ca-legislature-passes-migdens-bill-to.html
• snicholsblog: California Democrats Need to Stand up for
  Government-Financed Health Care Coverage
  http://snicholsblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-not-up-to-us-to-make-tough-choices.html
• Give it up Arnold | Working Californians
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/08/30/give_it_up_arnold

Voting Integrity

• Legendary Connnie McCormack, Elections Official for Los
  Angeles and San Diego, Leaves the Field – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/legendary_connn.html
• The BRAD BLOG : BRAD BLOG POLL: Which Voting Company Will
  LA County’s Registrar of Voters Now Go to Work For?
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5018
• The BRAD BLOG : EXCLUSIVE: Another California Congressman
  Indicates Possible Withdrawal of Support for Holt Election Reform Bill
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5001
• The BRAD BLOG : The Good Guys Strike Back!
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5022

Electoral “Reform”

• Courage Campaign | Erik Love’s Blog: DailyKos: This isn’t
  “electoral reform”
  http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/eriklove/Vj5
• The Broad View: Red Alert: Efforts underway to stymie GOP
  Electoral College grab
  http://www.thenewpolitics.com/2007/08/efforts-underwa.html
• Daily Kos: This isn’t “electoral reform”
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/29/20579/4408
• MyDD :: Fighting Republican Dirty Tricks In California Goes
  National
  http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/8/30/13468/3610

Energy &
Environment

• Daily Kos: What is the world is going on in California?
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/29/143521/098
• The Ruth Group » California, the EU and Carbon
  Capping
  http://www.ruthgroup.org/2007/08/30/california-the-eu-and-carbon-capping/
• The California Majority Report // Ready for
  Schwarzenegger’s First Blackout? He Isn’t
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2242

Iraq

• Perata to Schwarzenegger: Trust the People–Sign
  “Vote Us Out” of Iraq
  Ballot Measure to Allow Us to Vote on the War – California Progress
  Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_to_schwa_1.html
• The Liberal OC » The Register’s
  Editorial: Let Californians Be Heard on Iraq
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/08/30/the-registers-editorial-let-californians-be-heard-on-iraq/
• The Left Coaster: Tauscher Belittles Pentagon’s “Green Zone
  Fog”
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010917.php

Fifteen Percent Doolittle

• The Progressive Connection:: Doolittle Draws Yet Another
  Competitor
  http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=129
• The Bayne of Blog’s – California Notes: Gaines takes a step
  toward challenging Doolittle
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/gaines-takes-step-toward-challenging.html
• Dump Doolittle: Strangely, the curious incident of the
  Senator in the restroom adds pressure to John Doolittle
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/08/strangely-curious-incident-of-senator.html

Local

• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Interview with School Board
  Candidate Joe Spector
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-school-board-candidate_30.html
• SFist: Step Right Up! Gawk At Public Housing!
  http://sfist.com/2007/08/29/step_right_up_g.php
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Interview with School Board
  Candidate Richard Harris
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-school-board-candidate_29.html
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: UC Davis’ Announced
  Agreement with Sodexho Greeted with Hope and Skepticism
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/uc-davis-announced-agreement-with.html
• The Bayne of Blog’s – California Notes: Sacramento Labor
  Council endorses Community College Initiative
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/sacramento-labor-council-endorses.html

Everything Else

• The California Majority Report // Wednesday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2239
• The California Majority Report // Thursday’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2243
• The California Majority Report // Stricter Immigration
  Enforcement Must Include Comprehensive Reform
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2244
• Daily Kos: The State of California
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/29/202846/111
• The California Majority Report // Strange Bedfellows
  Showdown at
  the Capitol Tomorrow: Dems, Reeps, and Issue Groups v. “Clean Money”
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2241
• California Educational Test Results? – California Progress
  Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/california_educ.html

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• Pam’s House Blend:: CA Atty Gen. Jerry Brown:
  “marriage…insignificant”
  http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2763
• The Progressive Connection:: More On The Hinchey Amendment
  http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=127
• The Reality-Based Community: More environmental mischief,
  and another batch of rich pickpockets at the public trough
  http://www.samefacts.com/archives/energy_and_environment_/2007/08/more_environmental_mischief_and_another_batch_of_rich_pickpockets_at_the_public_trough.php
• The BRAD BLOG : 500 Rally in San Diego to Save Air America
  Station
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5013
• BeyondChron: San Francisco’s Alternative Online Daily News
  » Schwarzenegger Twists the Knife and Pours Salt in the Wound
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4859#more
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Interview with School Board
  Candidate Susan Lovenburg
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-with-school-board-candidate.html
• California Legislature’s Big Oil Industry Reforms
  Emerge as Pipsqueaks – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/california_legi_12.html
• The BRAD BLOG : Sequoia’s Documents Fail to Answer Serious
  Questions Raised in Dan Rather Report
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4998
• California Health Care Reform Too Important to Diverse
  Communities to Waste Window of Opportunity – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/california_heal_4.html
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2230
• The California Majority Report // California Speaks — And
  It Wasn’t All About Single Payer
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2229
• Speak Out California! – Weblog: Beating back bad
  initiatives–one at a time
  http://speakoutca.org/archives/2007/08/beating_back_ba.php
• happening-here?: Workers just want to get paid
  http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/08/workers-just-want-to-get-paid.html
• Returning Veterans Fight to Save “Hallowed
  Ground” in California – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/returning_veter.html
• New Poll: Republicans Hemorrhaging Youth
  Support–California Democrats Reach Out – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/new_poll_republ.html
• The California Majority Report // …And Speaking of Health
  Care Legislation
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2234
• snicholsblog: DiFi Will be Key Player in Gonsalez
  Replacement
  http://snicholsblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/difi-will-be-key-player-in-gonsalez.html
• SFist: Abu Ghraib Art At Cal
  http://sfist.com/2007/08/28/abu_ghraib_art.php
• D-Day: Crunch Time for Health Care In California
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/08/crunch-time-for-health-care-in.html
• The California Majority Report // Don’t Forget About
  Marriage Equality
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2236
• The Bayne of Blog’s – California Notes: McNerney hold
  education meeting but leaves some stakeholders out
  http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/08/mcnerney-hold-education-meeting-but.html
• The Progressive Connection:: Here’s “Why”
  http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=128
• Chains, Drains, and Getting the Lead Out :: The Ojai Post
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/08/chains_drains_and_getting_the.shtml
• If Presidential Campaigns Were Pennant Races–The
  Republican Scheme on California’s Electoral Votes – California Progress
  Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/if_presidential.html
• Bottled Water Should Be Held to the Same Standard as Other
  Drinking Water in California–And You Can Do Something About It –
  California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/bottled_water_s.html
• Schrag: “Racial” Achievement Gaps in Educational Testing in
  California – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/schrag_racial_a.html
• AB 118 – Energy Efficiency, Lower Carbon Fuels,
  and a Critical Investment in California’s Economic and
  Transportation Future – California Progress Report
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/ab_118_energy_e.html