{"id":10769,"date":"2009-12-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-30T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:49:10","slug":"december-30-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/31\/december-30-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 30 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/local\/story\/1763919.html\">State Bar couldn&#8217;t identify<\/a> the source of the early leak about former Sen, now court of appeal judge, Chuck Poochigian&#8217;s not qualified rating.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/29\/whither-the-gop-in-california-after\/?partner=RSS\">Timm Herdt takes a look<\/a> at the California Republican party in the post-Schwarzenegger era.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The plan to build a nuclear energy facility near Fresno <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-nuke30-2009dec30,0,493029.story\">is gaining steam<\/a>. It will be several years before ground is ever broken, but the process has begun in earnest.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CalPERS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yiroch2r2fdwmk\">has officially tightened its rules<\/a> regarding investment decisions.<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-child-death30-2009dec30,0,7229655.story\">death of a child has the LA County Child Protection system under scrutiny<\/a>. It is a very challenging job, and one mistake could result in a disaster like this. All the while, the social workers are underpaid and their resources are being slashed in the budget fights. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/local\/story\/1763919.html\">State Bar couldn&#8217;t identify<\/a> the source of the early leak about former Sen, now court of appeal judge, Chuck Poochigian&#8217;s not qualified rating.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/29\/whither-the-gop-in-california-after\/?partner=RSS\">Timm Herdt takes a look<\/a> at the California Republican party in the post-Schwarzenegger era.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The plan to build a nuclear energy facility near Fresno <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-nuke30-2009dec30,0,493029.story\">is gaining steam<\/a>. It will be several years before ground is ever broken, but the process has begun in earnest.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CalPERS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yiroch2r2fdwmk\">has officially tightened its rules<\/a> regarding investment decisions.<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-child-death30-2009dec30,0,7229655.story\">death of a child has the LA County Child Protection system under scrutiny<\/a>. It is a very challenging job, and one mistake could result in a disaster like this. All the while, the social workers are underpaid and their resources are being slashed in the budget fights. &nbsp;<\/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-10769","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-2NH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769","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=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}