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A quick note by Brian: This is kinda off topic, but I wanted to mention the Regional Platform meetings being held around the state to talk about the California Democratic Party’s platform. Here’s the schedule of events.
Think Pieces
- Speak Out California!: Do Taxes ‘Hurt’? Is Government Bad?
http://speakoutca.org/archives/2007/10/do_taxes_hurt_i.php - Open Left:: Externalized Costs: The Free Market’s Free
Lunch–A Local Case At The Port of Los Angeles
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1752 - jawfish – Why iPhones and Text Messages and MP3s Matter
http://www.jawfish.net/wordpress/archives/165
Whiskey is for drinkin’
- California Progress Report – “Financing Water Projects” by
the California Legislative Analyst’s Office is our site of the day
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/financing_water.html - California Progress Report – Something’s
Happening on California Water Issues This Monday—Senate
Staff Told to Report to the Capitol Even Though It’s a State
Holiday
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/somethings_happ.html - California Progress Report – Governor
Schwarzenegger’s Desk Still Cluttered, Water Investment
Principles Hearing Held
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/governor_schwar_15.html - California Progress Report – Why the Sierra Club Opposes
New Dams in the Special Session on California Water
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/why_the_sierra.html - The California Majority Report // Assembly Democrats
Searching For Water Solutions
http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2340 - California Progress Report – Economics and the Complexity
of the Science of Water May Be High
Hurdles in the California Water Special Session
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/economics_and_t.html
Basic Fairness
- The Mad Professah Lectures: California Heterosexual
Supremacists Claim They Will Miss June Primary Ballot
http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/10/california-heterosexual-supremacists.html - The Mad Professah Lectures: Appellate Court Ruling Protects
Domestic Partner Property Rights
http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/10/appellate-court-ruling-protects.html
Pending Legislation
- The Bayne of Blog: Students kick off “Yes on Proposition
92” at Sac City College
http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/10/students-kick-off-yes-on-proposition-92.html - California Progress Report – California State University
Executive Pay Hikes–Illegal Gift of
Public Funds–Another Reason AB 1413 Needs to be Signed by the Governor
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/california_stat_18.html - California Progress Report – California Health Care in the
Special Session: An Analysis of
the “Working Draft” of Legislative Language That No One Claims to “Own”
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/california_heal_8.html - California Progress Report – My California Family Leave Law
on Governor Schwarzenegger’s Desk
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/my_california_f.html - California Progress Report – Schwarzenegger’s Decision to
Sign or Veto Oakland School Bill May Be Purely Political
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/schwarzeneggers_14.html - Working Californians | Expanding the Family Leave Laws
http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/10/05/expanding_the_family_leave_laws
From Here to DC
- CA 11: Obey or Hoyer/Emmanuel?
http://ca-11.blogspot.com/2007/10/obey-or-hoyeremmanuel.html - Trash Dirty Gary: Dirty Gary Offers Blackwater a License To
Kill
http://nomoredirtygary.blogspot.com/2007/10/dirty-gary-offers-blackwater-license-to.html - The Bayne of Blog: Lungren calls waiting to gather override
support “cynical”
http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/10/lungren-calls-waiting-to-gather.html - Conejo Valley Democrat – Bush’s Poodle: Why
Gallegly Won’t Fund Children’s Health Care
http://conejovalleydemocrat.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/bushs-poodle-why-gallegly-wont-fund-childrens-health-care/ - Dump Doolittle: CA-04: We’re numero uno!
http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/10/ca-04-were-numero-uno.html - The Bayne of Blog: McNerney brings Congress close to home
http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/10/mcnerney-brings-congress-close-to-home.html
Local News
- SoHum Parlance: Another casualty of the marijuana wars
http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/10/another-casualty-of-marijuana-wars.html - LAist: The Sherrifs Department May Have Arrested You or
Towed Your Car Because They Were Playing A Game
http://laist.com/2007/10/04/bad_sheriffs_department.php - BlogaBarbara: Nuns Paying for Sins of The Fathers…
http://blogabarbara.blogspot.com/2007/10/nuns-paying-for-sins-of-fathers.html - SoHum Parlance: Crisis in Sohum
http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/10/crisis-in-sohum.html - BeyondChron » Religious Leaders Denounce
Crackdown on Homeless
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4980#more - BeyondChron » The Chronicle Sinks to a New Low
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4981#more - The People’s Vanguard of Davis – City Retiree Medical
Benefits: Smart Financing or Voodoo Economics?
http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/10/city-retiree-medical-benefits-smart.html - The N-Judah Chronicles – Reader Mail: When Statistics and
Life Collide On the N Judah Line
http://www.njudahchronicles.com/2007/10/reader_mail_when_statistics_an.html - San Diego Politico: Still more on the 78th
http://www.sandiegopolitico.com/2007/10/still-more-on-78th.html
All The Rest
- . . . Surf Putah: UC Academic Student Employee Union
Contract Details Are Now Out
http://surfputah.blogspot.com/2007/10/uc-academic-student-employee-union.html - The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2342 - Joe Scott: The Body Politic – Arnold in 2010?
http://www.joescott3.com/index.php/js/permalink/arnold_in_2010/ - Erik Love @ Courage Campaign | Blackwater: Terrifying
civilians in Iraq and… California?
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/eriklove/BpJ - The Liberal OC » Western C-PAC Guest List
Announced: What? No Coulter!?
http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/10/04/western-c-pac-guest-list-announced-what-no-coulter/ - Out of the Blue, Into the Black: Over Before It Has Begun
http://tgangale1.blogspot.com/2007/10/over-before-it-has-begun.html - The Ruth Group » Blue Angel Dying
http://www.ruthgroup.org/2007/10/04/blue-angel-dying/ - LAist: Politicians Say the Dumbest Things: Nuñez
is ‘Middle Class’?
http://laist.com/2007/10/05/politicians_say.php