{"id":10675,"date":"2009-12-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-14T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:21:48","slug":"december-14-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/15\/december-14-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 14 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Steve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2009\/12\/steve-poizner-c-1.html\">Poizner dumped $15 million<\/a> into his own campaign. &nbsp;That should at least get some more attention for his struggling campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 PG&#038;E and other utilities are installing smart electric meters around the state. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/14\/us\/14meters.html?_r=2&#038;ref=us\">some people aren&#8217;t so happy with their performance<\/a>. There are allegations of faulty readings and excess costs that users end up paying for.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oakland is following Berkeley in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/14\/BA181B1QT7.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">allowing residents to finance solar panel installations via their property tax bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Humboldt County has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2393043.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">a beneficiary of the medical marijuana legislation<\/a> in some ways. Others argue that it has changed the culture for the worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Steve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2009\/12\/steve-poizner-c-1.html\">Poizner dumped $15 million<\/a> into his own campaign. &nbsp;That should at least get some more attention for his struggling campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 PG&#038;E and other utilities are installing smart electric meters around the state. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/14\/us\/14meters.html?_r=2&#038;ref=us\">some people aren&#8217;t so happy with their performance<\/a>. There are allegations of faulty readings and excess costs that users end up paying for.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oakland is following Berkeley in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/14\/BA181B1QT7.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">allowing residents to finance solar panel installations via their property tax bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Humboldt County has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2393043.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">a beneficiary of the medical marijuana legislation<\/a> in some ways. Others argue that it has changed the culture for the worse.<\/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-10675","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-2Mb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","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=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}