{"id":10827,"date":"2010-03-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-22T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:42:22","slug":"march-22-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/23\/march-22-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 22 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Jerry Brown now has <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/jerry-brown-has-14-million-in-bank-for-governors-race.html\">$14 million in the bank<\/a>. This is a really good total, historically it would put him right in the thick of things. &nbsp;This is a very different year, though. He&#8217;ll need to keep on the fundraising trail.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CalSTRS, like its big brother, CalPERS, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/news\/ci_14724163\">facing a future shortfall<\/a>. The investment bubble hit the pension fund hard. Solutions appear to be on the back burner until after the election.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/03\/21\/2624082\/millions-in-california-will-feel.html\">health care reform will be both swift and delayed<\/a>. But look for some rather big changes in the short-term.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Tucked away in the Reconciliation bill last night was a <a href=\"http:\/\/educatedguess.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/historic-vote-for-community-colleges-too\/\">nice little boost for community colleges<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/top-stories\/ci_14712353\">State Water Resources Control Board had some hearings today<\/a> to decide how much water needs to flow through the Delta system to honor the &#8220;public trust.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Jerry Brown now has <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/jerry-brown-has-14-million-in-bank-for-governors-race.html\">$14 million in the bank<\/a>. This is a really good total, historically it would put him right in the thick of things. &nbsp;This is a very different year, though. He&#8217;ll need to keep on the fundraising trail.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CalSTRS, like its big brother, CalPERS, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/news\/ci_14724163\">facing a future shortfall<\/a>. The investment bubble hit the pension fund hard. Solutions appear to be on the back burner until after the election.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/03\/21\/2624082\/millions-in-california-will-feel.html\">health care reform will be both swift and delayed<\/a>. But look for some rather big changes in the short-term.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Tucked away in the Reconciliation bill last night was a <a href=\"http:\/\/educatedguess.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/historic-vote-for-community-colleges-too\/\">nice little boost for community colleges<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/top-stories\/ci_14712353\">State Water Resources Control Board had some hearings today<\/a> to decide how much water needs to flow through the Delta system to honor the &#8220;public trust.&#8221;<\/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-10827","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-2OD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827","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=10827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}