{"id":12414,"date":"2010-08-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-31T00:05:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T00:05:39","slug":"august-30-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/31\/august-30-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"August 30 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* How do we set the rates for insurance? Well, under the federal legislation, we weren&#8217;t supposed to be authorizing rates state by state. &nbsp;A recent law (SB1163) would allow insurance companies to require a &#8220;acuarily sound&#8221; rate.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"335\" height=\"85\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/assets\/flash\/kqedplayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/radio\/archives\/R201008300850a.xml\"><\/param><\/object>* John Myers <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2010\/08\/30\/advocate-or-educate-the-magic-words-of-campaign-ads\/\">looks at Dan Schnur&#8217;s efforts to expand disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Carly Fiorina brought something of a do whatever it takes to make a buck philosophy to HP that seems to have persisted there. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/30\/hp-pays-55-mil-but-gets-up-to-800-mil-from-feds\/\">They got fined $55 million for defrauding the federal goverment<\/a>, but hey, they picked up a $800 million deal. &nbsp;Cost of doing business, right?<\/p>\n<p>* A little tiff in the OC DA&#8217;s office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/spitzer-264196-rack-office.html\">between former Asm. Todd Spitzer and current DA Tony Rackauckas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Capitol Weekly takes a look at some various <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=z3gzu7qezz5qpu&#038;done=.z3huh9igiit1at\">last minute legislative pushes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* How do we set the rates for insurance? Well, under the federal legislation, we weren&#8217;t supposed to be authorizing rates state by state. &nbsp;A recent law (SB1163) would allow insurance companies to require a &#8220;acuarily sound&#8221; rate.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"335\" height=\"85\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/assets\/flash\/kqedplayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/radio\/archives\/R201008300850a.xml\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/assets\/flash\/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/radio\/archives\/R201008300850a.xml\"><\/embed><\/object>* John Myers <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2010\/08\/30\/advocate-or-educate-the-magic-words-of-campaign-ads\/\">looks at Dan Schnur&#8217;s efforts to expand disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Carly Fiorina brought something of a do whatever it takes to make a buck philosophy to HP that seems to have persisted there. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/30\/hp-pays-55-mil-but-gets-up-to-800-mil-from-feds\/\">They got fined $55 million for defrauding the federal goverment<\/a>, but hey, they picked up a $800 million deal. &nbsp;Cost of doing business, right?<\/p>\n<p>* A little tiff in the OC DA&#8217;s office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/spitzer-264196-rack-office.html\">between former Asm. Todd Spitzer and current DA Tony Rackauckas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Capitol Weekly takes a look at some various <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=z3gzu7qezz5qpu&#038;done=.z3huh9igiit1at\">last minute legislative pushes<\/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-12414","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-3ee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414","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=12414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}