{"id":8737,"date":"2009-05-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-02T03:41:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:41:46","slug":"open-thread-may-1-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/02\/open-thread-may-1-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – May 1, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is May Day<\/a>, which in the rest of the world is a holiday for worker’s rights.  Here it brings flowers!  Links…<\/p>\n

\u2022 Traditionally, immigrant’s rights advocates hold May Day rallies<\/a> throughout the state, and this year was no different.  San Francisco<\/a> and Los Angeles<\/a> held events.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jerry Brown may be the state’s top cop, but thieves made off with his tires<\/a> in Sacramento late last week.  Of course, this was right before the convention, so someone should at least question those Newsom newbies running around the Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u2022 There are a few runoff elections happening in LA around the same time as the May 19 special election, and the City Attorney’s race between Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich has grown particularly ugly.  Now LA County Labor Fed<\/a> will drop $335,000 for negative ads on Trutanich.  The airwaves are plastered with attack spots.<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/object>\u2022 So out of nowhere, a woman stepped forward and declared her father the Zodiac killer<\/a>.  Thanks for holding that until AFTER David Fincher’s movie, lady!  Think of the extra insight at the research phase!  This must be the week to identify serial killers<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The state has opened a public comment period on their use of lethal injection procedures<\/a> in execution cases.  Something about this misses the point.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sprawl finally begins to reverse itself on the exurban fringes of Southern California, as the following video from Victorville of new homes being demolished illustrates. As banks get hit with the costs of maintaining vacant homes, and sometimes getting fined when they fail to do so, it becomes cheaper to just tear it down. This is a good sign, in a way – hopefully sprawl has finally reached its limits:<\/p>\n

The crew was headed to Temecula next.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Isn’t it time for tax reform yet? Sen. Lois Wolk had a very wonkish op-ed in the Vacaville Reporter<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is May Day<\/a>, which in the rest of the world is a holiday for worker’s rights.  Here it brings flowers!  Links…<\/p>\n

\u2022 Traditionally, immigrant’s rights advocates hold May Day rallies<\/a> throughout the state, and this year was no different.  San Francisco<\/a> and Los Angeles<\/a> held events.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jerry Brown may be the state’s top cop, but thieves made off with his tires<\/a> in Sacramento late last week.  Of course, this was right before the convention, so someone should at least question those Newsom newbies running around the Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u2022 There are a few runoff elections happening in LA around the same time as the May 19 special election, and the City Attorney’s race between Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich has grown particularly ugly.  Now LA County Labor Fed<\/a> will drop $335,000 for negative ads on Trutanich.  The airwaves are plastered with attack spots.<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\u2022 So out of nowhere, a woman stepped forward and declared her father the Zodiac killer<\/a>.  Thanks for holding that until AFTER David Fincher’s movie, lady!  Think of the extra insight at the research phase!  This must be the week to identify serial killers<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The state has opened a public comment period on their use of lethal injection procedures<\/a> in execution cases.  Something about this misses the point.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sprawl finally begins to reverse itself on the exurban fringes of Southern California, as the following video from Victorville of new homes being demolished illustrates. As banks get hit with the costs of maintaining vacant homes, and sometimes getting fined when they fail to do so, it becomes cheaper to just tear it down. This is a good sign, in a way – hopefully sprawl has finally reached its limits:<\/p>\n

The crew was headed to Temecula next.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Isn’t it time for tax reform yet? Sen. Lois Wolk had a very wonkish op-ed in the Vacaville Reporter<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","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=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}