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\u2022 The new Assembly Republican Leader Sam Blakeslee is respected in the chamber<\/a>. He is an interesting man with some interesting opinions. One that might intrigue our readers is his support of a constitutional convention.<\/p>\n \u2022 Brian McGowan takes on the myth<\/a> that California businesses are fleeing the state. It won’t work, of course, and McGowan, a Deputy Secretary for the Governor, sounds a bit like a California tourism ad, but there you are.<\/p>\n \u2022 The UC Regents voted to approve a tuition increase<\/a>. Among the four dissenting votes was LG John Garamendi.<\/p>\n \u2022 A new report<\/a> blames the Coast Guard, the captain, and the bar pilot for the Cosco Busan oil spill.<\/p>\n \u2022 We have two lawmakers at the highest levels of rewriting US energy policy, and while I generally believe in them, both appear to be faltering. Barbara Boxer is teaming up with James Inhofe<\/a> to foreground highway funding in the transportation bill instead of carving out more space for transit, and Henry Waxman has offered free permits to polluters<\/a> as a means to save his wide-ranging climate and energy bill. We have to make sure they get pressure on this from the left as well as the right.<\/p>\n \u2022 The recall petitions for Anthony Adams are on the streets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Links:<\/p>\n \u2022 The new Assembly Republican Leader Sam Blakeslee is respected in the chamber<\/a>. He is an interesting man with some interesting opinions. One that might intrigue our readers is his support of a constitutional convention.<\/p>\n \u2022 Brian McGowan takes on the myth<\/a> that California businesses are fleeing the state. It won’t work, of course, and McGowan, a Deputy Secretary for the Governor, sounds a bit like a California tourism ad, but there you are.<\/p>\n \u2022 The UC Regents voted to approve a tuition increase<\/a>. Among the four dissenting votes was LG John Garamendi.<\/p>\n \u2022 A new report<\/a> blames the Coast Guard, the captain, and the bar pilot for the Cosco Busan oil spill.<\/p>\n \u2022 We have two lawmakers at the highest levels of rewriting US energy policy, and while I generally believe in them, both appear to be faltering. Barbara Boxer is teaming up with James Inhofe<\/a> to foreground highway funding in the transportation bill instead of carving out more space for transit, and Henry Waxman has offered free permits to polluters<\/a> as a means to save his wide-ranging climate and energy bill. We have to make sure they get pressure on this from the left as well as the right.<\/p>\n