I (Brian) am sitting here in San Francisco, being rather incessantly buzzed by the Blue Angels, but I’m sure it will be a lovely weekend of this. The Links!<\/p>\n
\u2022 As of this afternoon, nobody expected a water deal to be hammered out<\/a>. Does this mean a mass veto of the entire 2009 session? Darrell Steinberg still calls that possibility a “sideshow.” Meanwhile, instead of doing his job and signing bills the Governor hung out at a Latino Water Coalition rally<\/a> today, without bothering to disclose that he invented the Latino Water Coalition<\/a> out of whole cloth.<\/p>\n \u2022 Martin Wicksol of the OC Register likes<\/a> the unknown Richard Faher as a stalking horse for Linda Ackerman, the wife of longtime OC political kingpin Dick Ackerman. The argument seems a teensy bit weak, mostly because in order to be a stalking horse you need to have some profile to gather votes. <\/p>\n \u2022 California’s exports are down for the 10th straight month<\/a>. While some are saying there are green shoots, there are still a lot of sickly plants out there in the field.<\/p>\n \u2022 Fighting global warming would save the state $100 billion in Gross State Product<\/a> and create 112,000. Of course, the Yacht Party will tell us that such policies are job-killers.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jerry Brown is not troubled by the Governor’s horsetrading on 700 bills for a water deal<\/a>. But hey, the law is so 30 years ago.<\/p>\n \u2022 The US Labor Department is looking into<\/a> whether the furloughs are slowing down response times at the EDD for unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n \u2022 Casino regulation in the state could change dramtically if this deal<\/a> goes through. Perhaps we should just legalize gambling in the state<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I (Brian) am sitting here in San Francisco, being rather incessantly buzzed by the Blue Angels, but I’m sure it will be a lovely weekend of this. The Links!<\/p>\n \u2022 As of this afternoon, nobody expected a water deal to be hammered out<\/a>. Does this mean a mass veto of the entire 2009 session? Darrell Steinberg still calls that possibility a “sideshow.” Meanwhile, instead of doing his job and signing bills the Governor hung out at a Latino Water Coalition rally<\/a> today, without bothering to disclose that he invented the Latino Water Coalition<\/a> out of whole cloth.<\/p>\n \u2022 Martin Wicksol of the OC Register likes<\/a> the unknown Richard Faher as a stalking horse for Linda Ackerman, the wife of longtime OC political kingpin Dick Ackerman. The argument seems a teensy bit weak, mostly because in order to be a stalking horse you need to have some profile to gather votes. <\/p>\n \u2022 California’s exports are down for the 10th straight month<\/a>. While some are saying there are green shoots, there are still a lot of sickly plants out there in the field.<\/p>\n \u2022 Fighting global warming would save the state $100 billion in Gross State Product<\/a> and create 112,000. Of course, the Yacht Party will tell us that such policies are job-killers.<\/p>\n \u2022 Jerry Brown is not troubled by the Governor’s horsetrading on 700 bills for a water deal<\/a>. But hey, the law is so 30 years ago.<\/p>\n \u2022 The US Labor Department is looking into<\/a> whether the furloughs are slowing down response times at the EDD for unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n \u2022 Casino regulation in the state could change dramtically if this deal<\/a> goes through. 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