Today’s Blog Roundup is on the flip. Let us know if I missed anything in comments.

Also, The California Majority Report seems to be experimenting with a daily news roundup. They’re calling it “Fresh Meat“, which is best thought of as a sort of a spun “Rough and Tumble”. I hope they can keep it up — I tried to do that for a month or two in 2005, and it was brutal. Of course, CA Majority Report should be able to, y’know, pay people.

Budgets are Moral
Documents

• Working Californians: Budget Divide
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/09/budget_divide
• The California Majority Report: The Memo That Republican
  Budgetwriters Won’t Ever Write
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2046
• The California Majority Report: The Politics Behind the
  Republican Budget Blockade
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2047

All Politics is Local

• SoHum Parlance: Garberville’s court services to be cut back
  even further
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/07/garbervilles-court-services-to-be-cut.html
• happening-here?: Community and Housing in the Mission
  http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/07/another-project-is-possible.html
• Left In SF: Wi-Fi appeal heard today
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2058

Our State and Planet

• Daily Kos Diary: Renewable Electrical Energy Trends in
  California, 1995-2005
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/9/22836/54289
• If I Ran the Zoo: LeConte Divide Trip Report – Part 2
  http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2007/07/leconte-divide-trip-report-part-2.html
• California Progress Report: Banner Day on Global Warming in
  California
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/banner_day_on_g.html

Other State Politics in
No Particular Order

• Cannonfire: Not a Fan of Sheehan Running Against Pelosi
  http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/07/cindy-sheehan-and-impeachment-movement.html
• Dogged Blog: Don’t worry about me, it’s just my equality
  under the law
  http://www.doggedblog.com/doggedblog/2007/07/dont-worry-abou.html
• The California Majority Report: Steve Westly Apparently
  Still Breathing
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2044
• California Progress Report: Learn How to Win at DFA
  Training Academy
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/progressive_cal.html
• The BRAD BLOG : Discrepancies Reported in Versions of LA
  County E-Voting System Source Code as Submitted and Escrowed by
  ES&S
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4784
• The Left Coaster: The Flipping Point
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010630.php
• Working Californians: Time for Arnold to Listen to His
  Advisors on Prison Reform 
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/10/time_for_arnold_to_listen_to_his_advisors_on_prison_reform
• Courage Campaign: Actual Television News May Be on Its Way
  http://couragecampaign.org/entries/good-news/

Blog roundup on the flip. The labels should be self-explanatory.

Schwarzenegger’s Air
Resource Board Shenanigans

• The California Majority Report:  Schwarzenegger
  Administration Stonewalls on Clean Air; GOP Deserts Him
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2037
• California Progress Report: Testimony on
  Schwarzenegger Administration Interference in Implementation of AB 32
  on Global Warming
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/departed_chair.html
• Working Californians: Arnold, Perata and The Future of
  Cap-and-Trade At the Air Resources Board
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/05/arnold_perata_and_the_future_of_cap_and_trade_at_the_air_resources_board

Health Care

• Working Californians: Health Care Reform a Non-Partisan
  Issue
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/06/health_care_reform_a_non_partisan_issue
• My Left Wing:: Why Not Privatize the Police and
  Firefighters?
  http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=17664

California Politics

• California Progress Report: Police Accountability Bill
  Stalled‚ It’s Time for Speaker Nunez to Speak Up
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/police_accounta.html
• California Policy Inbox: The Cons of Privatizing the State
  Lottery
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=356
• California Policy Inbox: California “Food
  Insecurity” Index Lower in Most Recent Survey
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=357
• Speak Out California!: English first but not only?
  http://speakoutca.org/archives/2007/07/post_24.php

Local and Labor

• Left In SF: Movement on San Francisco Wi-Fi deal?
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2053
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Yolo County General Plan
  Proposes Three Massive Developments on Davis Periphery
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/07/yolo-county-general-plan-proposes-three.html
• Working Californians: Ralphs Announces Hiring of
  Replacement Workers 
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/06/ralphs_announces_hiring_of_replacement_workers
• democracyforcalifornia.com: Waste Management Incorporated
  locks out workers
  http://www.democracyforcalifornia.com/blog/archives/002225.html

Republicans Are What They
Are

• CA 11: Assembly Member Guy Houston (R-AD15) defendant in
  civil suit claiming he defrauded seniors
  http://ca-11.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-doesnt-this-surprise-me.html
• DownWithTyranny!: RATS DESERTING A SINKING SHIP: LUGAR,
  WARNER, VOINOVICH, DOMENICI… WHO’S NEXT? DOOLITTLE?
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/07/rats-deserting-sinking-ship-lugar.html

We have yet another instance of a blogger taking to ink and dead wood to write an important piece on a topic that the blogger has written extensively about online. This time, it is Left in SF writer Sasha Magee in today’s San Francisco Bay Guardian. In a follow-up blog post, Sasha writes:

In my fantasy world, Gavin Newsom would read my Guardian op-ed and think, “damn, he’s right. I need to work with the Board on the wi-fi deal.”

Let’s hope that it isn’t just fantasy, because Sasha is spot-on.