{"id":10772,"date":"2010-01-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:21:05","slug":"january-4-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/05\/january-4-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"January 4 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Legislature will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14116657?source=rss\">getting some help from some major universities this session<\/a>. A panel of ten scientists will be on hand to help with legislation.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/01\/john-perez-mr-speaker-all-cattle-no-hat\/\">CalBuzz sits down with future Speaker John Perez<\/a> to talk issues, temperament, and how to make the Assembly most effective. <\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The SoCal ports of LA and Long Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ports4-2010jan04,0,4978297.story\">are fighting to maintain their West Coast position<\/a> as ports up and down the coast grow.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;UC Merced is gradually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/local\/story\/1768288.html\">building a relationship with the City of Merced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Ron Dellums has managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_14116845?source=rss\">work out a deal with truckers<\/a> on the emissions from their trucks. The state (and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District) made an additional $11 million available, and as that money is doled out, truckers who are in line can continue to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Legislature will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14116657?source=rss\">getting some help from some major universities this session<\/a>. A panel of ten scientists will be on hand to help with legislation.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/01\/john-perez-mr-speaker-all-cattle-no-hat\/\">CalBuzz sits down with future Speaker John Perez<\/a> to talk issues, temperament, and how to make the Assembly most effective. <\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The SoCal ports of LA and Long Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ports4-2010jan04,0,4978297.story\">are fighting to maintain their West Coast position<\/a> as ports up and down the coast grow.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;UC Merced is gradually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/local\/story\/1768288.html\">building a relationship with the City of Merced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Ron Dellums has managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_14116845?source=rss\">work out a deal with truckers<\/a> on the emissions from their trucks. The state (and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District) made an additional $11 million available, and as that money is doled out, truckers who are in line can continue to work.<\/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-10772","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-2NK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","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=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}