{"id":10561,"date":"2009-11-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-23T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:31:03","slug":"november-23-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/24\/november-23-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"November 23 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 One San Jacinto City Councilman was not indicted in the scandal that ensnared former Assembly candidate Jim Ayres. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/politics\/stories\/PE_News_Local_S_lastone23.44665be.html\">Steve DiMemmo gets a glowing portrait in the Riverside P-E<\/a> for his troubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Chair of the Fresno County Republican central committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/local\/story\/1721641.html\">has resigned<\/a> in the scandal now catching up with Asm. Joel Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 San Francisco Health Department officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/11\/23\/MNC31ALDNM.DTL\">don&#8217;t plan on shutting down HealthySF<\/a> if\/when a national &nbsp;health care plan goes into effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Medical marijuana is quite the topic these days. Even as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/22\/AR2009112201986.html?nav=rss_email\/components\">national support grows<\/a>, local ordinances around the state are trying to reel the dispensaries in. There&#8217;s been debate for 5 years over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-medical-marijuana23-2009nov23,0,2263967.story\">LA ordinance<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/politics-government\/ci_13837423\">San Jose City Council is also trying to limit the number of clubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-king-hospital23-2009nov23,0,5584486.story\">The MLK, Jr. hospital<\/a> that will reopen after being closed to all but outpatient care earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 One San Jacinto City Councilman was not indicted in the scandal that ensnared former Assembly candidate Jim Ayres. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/politics\/stories\/PE_News_Local_S_lastone23.44665be.html\">Steve DiMemmo gets a glowing portrait in the Riverside P-E<\/a> for his troubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Chair of the Fresno County Republican central committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/local\/story\/1721641.html\">has resigned<\/a> in the scandal now catching up with Asm. Joel Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 San Francisco Health Department officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/11\/23\/MNC31ALDNM.DTL\">don&#8217;t plan on shutting down HealthySF<\/a> if\/when a national &nbsp;health care plan goes into effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Medical marijuana is quite the topic these days. Even as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/22\/AR2009112201986.html?nav=rss_email\/components\">national support grows<\/a>, local ordinances around the state are trying to reel the dispensaries in. There&#8217;s been debate for 5 years over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-medical-marijuana23-2009nov23,0,2263967.story\">LA ordinance<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/politics-government\/ci_13837423\">San Jose City Council is also trying to limit the number of clubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-king-hospital23-2009nov23,0,5584486.story\">The MLK, Jr. hospital<\/a> that will reopen after being closed to all but outpatient care earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}