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* Happy Birthday to Capitol Weekly<\/a>. The new version preceded us by a few days back in 2005. It is kind of scary to look back at some of those old diary posts I (Brian) wrote back in the day.<\/p>\n * Prop 23 Miscellaneous Notes: Another $250K for the No on 23 campaign<\/a> based upon the opportunity for new green jobs. Koch Industries, an oil company, is a big supporter of Prop 23<\/a>. Oh, and they like to fund climate denial “studies.” FInally, HuffPo has a good story on the Texas oil companies and the Adam Smith Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have been squabbling over pay and pensions for a while<\/a>. You’d think that, given her incessant television and private plane appearances, that she might want to cut back on that line of attack.<\/p>\n * Workers Comp insurance premiums went up sharply<\/a>, mostly because Schwarzenegger has refused to let any increases for inflation.<\/p>\n * The Senate voted to make public university foundation records public<\/a> after the CSU-Stanislaus debacle with Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n * Robert is heading out of town for a well-deserved vacation, but he’ll be back on Calitics’ 5th anniversary of September 1. Let’s hope California hasn’t fully melted down by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Links:<\/p>\n * Happy Birthday to Capitol Weekly<\/a>. The new version preceded us by a few days back in 2005. It is kind of scary to look back at some of those old diary posts I (Brian) wrote back in the day.<\/p>\n * Prop 23 Miscellaneous Notes: Another $250K for the No on 23 campaign<\/a> based upon the opportunity for new green jobs. Koch Industries, an oil company, is a big supporter of Prop 23<\/a>. Oh, and they like to fund climate denial “studies.” FInally, HuffPo has a good story on the Texas oil companies and the Adam Smith Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman have been squabbling over pay and pensions for a while<\/a>. You’d think that, given her incessant television and private plane appearances, that she might want to cut back on that line of attack.<\/p>\n * Workers Comp insurance premiums went up sharply<\/a>, mostly because Schwarzenegger has refused to let any increases for inflation.<\/p>\n