{"id":10672,"date":"2009-12-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-11T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T16:58:43","slug":"december-10-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/11\/december-10-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 10 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The FPPC wants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yh1st4s3rnh3jf\">better disclosure and transparency rules<\/a> at the prison receiver&#8217;s office and the Dept. of corrections. They say there are some untold conflicts of interest which need some more sunlight. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More CalPERS news: It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/business\/story\/2384212.html#mi_rss=Business\">firing a group of real estate investment advisors<\/a>, perhaps a few years too late. The CalPERS board is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yh1ud04fsnlalk\">declining to take positions on several bills that would increase benefits<\/a>, a change from the recent past.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oh Noes! The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/12\/jerry-brown-meets-sgt-york-flavor-flav\/\">got the make of Jerry Brown&#8217;s famous 70s-mobile wrong<\/a> in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/us\/politics\/06govs.html?_r=2&#038;pagewanted=1&#038;sq=jerry%20brown&#038;st=cse&#038;scp=2\">front page story on Sunday<\/a>. It&#8217;s a 1974 Plymouth Satellite, people!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The delays of unemployment checks, due likely to EDD&#8217;s computer problems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/news\/ci_13962976?source=rss\">could be causing some delayed recipients to become homeless<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The FPPC wants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yh1st4s3rnh3jf\">better disclosure and transparency rules<\/a> at the prison receiver&#8217;s office and the Dept. of corrections. They say there are some untold conflicts of interest which need some more sunlight. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More CalPERS news: It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/business\/story\/2384212.html#mi_rss=Business\">firing a group of real estate investment advisors<\/a>, perhaps a few years too late. The CalPERS board is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yh1ud04fsnlalk\">declining to take positions on several bills that would increase benefits<\/a>, a change from the recent past.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oh Noes! The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/12\/jerry-brown-meets-sgt-york-flavor-flav\/\">got the make of Jerry Brown&#8217;s famous 70s-mobile wrong<\/a> in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/us\/politics\/06govs.html?_r=2&#038;pagewanted=1&#038;sq=jerry%20brown&#038;st=cse&#038;scp=2\">front page story on Sunday<\/a>. It&#8217;s a 1974 Plymouth Satellite, people!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The delays of unemployment checks, due likely to EDD&#8217;s computer problems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/news\/ci_13962976?source=rss\">could be causing some delayed recipients to become homeless<\/a>.<\/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-10672","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-2M8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672","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=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}