{"id":12139,"date":"2010-07-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-15T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T03:11:50","slug":"july-14-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/15\/july-14-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"July 14 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Senate Leaders Steinberg and Hollingsworth are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/senate-leaders-talking-budget.html\">doing some side discussions on the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* CalBuzz points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/07\/3-dot-cheap-shots-difi-emeg-icarly-and-krusty\/\">DiFi has alwasy been anti-fun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Juan Vargas hasn&#8217;t exactly won yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/07\/who-gets-credit-for-a-vargas-victory.html\">the LA Times looks at who gets credit for the win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* The Nurses and the Queen are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/07\/13\/BU7N1EDS5C.DTL\">having quite the battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Bill Lockyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/14\/u-t-editorial-lockyers-straight-talk\/\">says Wall Street is skeptical of high speed rail<\/a>. Wall Street is ignorant of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpirg.org\/home\/reports\/report-archives\/world-class-public-transit\/world-class-public-transit\/next-stop-california.-benefits-of-high-speed-rail-around-the-world-and-whats-in-store-for-california\">HSR&#8217;s global success<\/a> but they&#8217;re ignorant of many things. Still, maybe we don&#8217;t need Wall Street at all, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahsrblog.com\/2010\/07\/bill-lockyer-needs-to-show-wall-street-the-calpirg-study\/\">China is interested in funding California HSR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Senate Leaders Steinberg and Hollingsworth are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/senate-leaders-talking-budget.html\">doing some side discussions on the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* CalBuzz points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/07\/3-dot-cheap-shots-difi-emeg-icarly-and-krusty\/\">DiFi has alwasy been anti-fun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Juan Vargas hasn&#8217;t exactly won yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/07\/who-gets-credit-for-a-vargas-victory.html\">the LA Times looks at who gets credit for the win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* The Nurses and the Queen are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/07\/13\/BU7N1EDS5C.DTL\">having quite the battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Bill Lockyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/14\/u-t-editorial-lockyers-straight-talk\/\">says Wall Street is skeptical of high speed rail<\/a>. Wall Street is ignorant of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpirg.org\/home\/reports\/report-archives\/world-class-public-transit\/world-class-public-transit\/next-stop-california.-benefits-of-high-speed-rail-around-the-world-and-whats-in-store-for-california\">HSR&#8217;s global success<\/a> but they&#8217;re ignorant of many things. Still, maybe we don&#8217;t need Wall Street at all, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahsrblog.com\/2010\/07\/bill-lockyer-needs-to-show-wall-street-the-calpirg-study\/\">China is interested in funding California HSR<\/a>.<\/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-12139","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-39N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","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=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}