{"id":8543,"date":"2009-04-15T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-15T03:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T03:27:01","slug":"april-14-2009-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/15\/april-14-2009-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 14, 2009 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you finish your taxes? Better get them in, the state needs your money. Maybe toss in a tip for your favorite state employee.&nbsp; Here we go with the links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Yahoo is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/15\/technology\/companies\/15yahoo.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\"> laying off more workers<\/a>. But the say the best comopanies of the next tech wave emerge from the recessions, so maybe we&#39;re about to see the next big thing from Silicon Valley.<\/li>\n<li>Our Congress critters aren&#39;t the best at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/1780189.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">getting federal dollars<\/a>. Well, we probably knew that already, as we are a big net donor state, but now we know how bad. 49th to be exact.<\/li>\n<li>The investigation into the murder of former Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/04\/14\/MNIQ1727UI.DTL&amp;type=news\">under some scrutiny<\/a>, with allegations of insubordination and misconduct being bandied about. A former handyman for the Your Black Muslim bakery has been charged in the murder, but there is a lot of speculation about some leaders of that group being involved in the murder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&amp;entry_id=38511\">Carla Marinucci is quite skeptical <\/a>that Nevada can be a model for California&#39;s state government despite California Republican suggestions otherwise. She points out that Nevad&#39;s state government spends the lowest per capita on its citizens, rates terribly on quality of life issues, and Las Vegas is now the biggest US city without an art museum. Yeah, let&#39;s get moving on becoming that.<\/li>\n<li>Once and future(?) AD-15 candidate (and Walnut Creek mayor) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/04\/10\/pleasanton-tea-party-scheduled-for-tax-day\/#comment-79016\">Abram Wilson is scheduled to speak at the Pleasanton tea-bagging event<\/a>.&nbsp; Nothing shows that you care about the district and about state government than throwing food products on the ground with some right wingers.&nbsp; I don&#39;t know if Mayor Wilson noticed, but the sitrict now has a <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8458\/new-voter-registration-statistics-released-by-sos\">4.6% Democratic registration advantage<\/a>.&nbsp; Perhaps cowtowing to the right isn&#39;t the best way to get elected in such a district. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you finish your taxes? Better get them in, the state needs your money. Maybe toss in a tip for your favorite state employee.&nbsp; Here we go with the links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;Yahoo is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/15\/technology\/companies\/15yahoo.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\"> laying off more workers<\/a>. But the say the best comopanies of the next tech wave emerge from the recessions, so maybe we&#39;re about to see the next big thing from Silicon Valley.<\/li>\n<li>Our Congress critters aren&#39;t the best at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/1780189.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">getting federal dollars<\/a>. Well, we probably knew that already, as we are a big net donor state, but now we know how bad. 49th to be exact.<\/li>\n<li>The investigation into the murder of former Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/04\/14\/MNIQ1727UI.DTL&amp;type=news\">under some scrutiny<\/a>, with allegations of insubordination and misconduct being bandied about. A former handyman for the Your Black Muslim bakery has been charged in the murder, but there is a lot of speculation about some leaders of that group being involved in the murder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&amp;entry_id=38511\">Carla Marinucci is quite skeptical <\/a>that Nevada can be a model for California&#39;s state government despite California Republican suggestions otherwise. She points out that Nevad&#39;s state government spends the lowest per capita on its citizens, rates terribly on quality of life issues, and Las Vegas is now the biggest US city without an art museum. Yeah, let&#39;s get moving on becoming that.<\/li>\n<li>Once and future(?) AD-15 candidate (and Walnut Creek mayor) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/04\/10\/pleasanton-tea-party-scheduled-for-tax-day\/#comment-79016\">Abram Wilson is scheduled to speak at the Pleasanton tea-bagging event<\/a>.&nbsp; Nothing shows that you care about the district and about state government than throwing food products on the ground with some right wingers.&nbsp; I don&#39;t know if Mayor Wilson noticed, but the sitrict now has a <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8458\/new-voter-registration-statistics-released-by-sos\">4.6% Democratic registration advantage<\/a>.&nbsp; Perhaps cowtowing to the right isn&#39;t the best way to get elected in such a district. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1352,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2dN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543","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\/1352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}