{"id":10677,"date":"2009-12-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-16T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T22:15:19","slug":"december-16-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/17\/december-16-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 16 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/capitolandcalifornia\/story\/2399074.html\">Dan Walters has a eulogy for Don Peterson<\/a> a centrist from Humboldt County who lobbied for local governments. And the Bee also has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/ourregion\/story\/2399113.html\">obituary for Paul Gerowitz<\/a>, a longtime Assembly staffer and executive director of the state&#8217;s criminal defense lawyers group.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2398802.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">CalPERS is looking at cutting long-term care benefits<\/a> for its members.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At the SoCal ports, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ports16-2009dec16,0,5640551.story\">exports are up, but imports are down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Oakland A&#8217;s are looking to get a stadium deal in the South Bay, but the proposed stadium is in the Giants &#8220;exclusive area.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/politics-government\/ci_14005073?source=rss\">So, there&#8217;s going to be a tussle<\/a> before anything happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The folks at Consumer Watchdog do not like what <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=10730\">Mercury Insurance is up to with its &#8220;continuous coverage discount initiative<\/a>.&#8221; They say it&#8217;s just a surcharge for anybody who decides to stop coverage for whatever reason, leaving the country for a while (ie soldiers), deciding to ditch the car for a while, whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/capitolandcalifornia\/story\/2399074.html\">Dan Walters has a eulogy for Don Peterson<\/a> a centrist from Humboldt County who lobbied for local governments. And the Bee also has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/ourregion\/story\/2399113.html\">obituary for Paul Gerowitz<\/a>, a longtime Assembly staffer and executive director of the state&#8217;s criminal defense lawyers group.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2398802.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">CalPERS is looking at cutting long-term care benefits<\/a> for its members.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At the SoCal ports, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ports16-2009dec16,0,5640551.story\">exports are up, but imports are down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Oakland A&#8217;s are looking to get a stadium deal in the South Bay, but the proposed stadium is in the Giants &#8220;exclusive area.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/politics-government\/ci_14005073?source=rss\">So, there&#8217;s going to be a tussle<\/a> before anything happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The folks at Consumer Watchdog do not like what <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=10730\">Mercury Insurance is up to with its &#8220;continuous coverage discount initiative<\/a>.&#8221; They say it&#8217;s just a surcharge for anybody who decides to stop coverage for whatever reason, leaving the country for a while (ie soldiers), deciding to ditch the car for a while, whatever.<\/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-10677","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-2Md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","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=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}