{"id":8941,"date":"2009-05-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-22T04:23:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:23:53","slug":"may-21-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/22\/may-21-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"May 21 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

I (Brian) will be on Your Call Radio<\/a> tomorrow morning at 11 AM to discuss the news of the week in the weekly media roundtable. You can listen on 91.7 FM in San Francisco, or stream it online. I’ll post a link to the podcast afterwards. Now, to our collaborative link efforts:<\/p>\n

\u2022 As a coda to Tuesday’s election, we still don’t know<\/a> who won the Los Angeles 5th City Council District.  Paul Koretz won on Election Day over David Vahedi by 335 votes, but there are about 3,000 provisional and late vote-by-mail ballots left to be counted.  Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A big victory for Henry Waxman, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed his energy and climate bill<\/a>, which includes a cap and trade system for carbon emissions and a renewable energy standard.  Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) actually voted the bill out of committee, the only Republican to do so.  Ultimately, the bill is compromised and could do with being strengthened – the Sierra Club has some ideas<\/a> – but clearing cap and trade from the committee loaded with coal-state Congresscritters and headed by the Dingellsaurus for decades is significant.<\/p>\n

\u2022 First Lady Maria Shriver planted a garden<\/a> at the Capitol. If this budget gets any worse, we might need to expand that garden and sell the produce to pay off some of the state debt.<\/p>\n

\u2022 It’s not so much that the SacBee posted a kind of childish op-ed on their website, it’s that they tried to scrub it unsuccessfully<\/a>.  A lot of newspapers post bad op-eds, I don’t know what they were afraid of.  Nevertheless, the far right is in a tizzy about it, because they’re victim addicts and everything’s about them.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The California budget will be the same size as it was in 1999<\/a> assuming the current projections are accurate. Because there hasn’t been any inflation since then.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Health Access released a report (PDF)<\/a>showing that at least half a million Californians have lost their insurance<\/a> over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I (Brian) will be on Your Call Radio<\/a> tomorrow morning at 11 AM to discuss the news of the week in the weekly media roundtable. You can listen on 91.7 FM in San Francisco, or stream it online. I’ll post a link to the podcast afterwards. Now, to our collaborative link efforts:<\/p>\n

\u2022 As a coda to Tuesday’s election, we still don’t know<\/a> who won the Los Angeles 5th City Council District.  Paul Koretz won on Election Day over David Vahedi by 335 votes, but there are about 3,000 provisional and late vote-by-mail ballots left to be counted.  Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A big victory for Henry Waxman, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed his energy and climate bill<\/a>, which includes a cap and trade system for carbon emissions and a renewable energy standard.  Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) actually voted the bill out of committee, the only Republican to do so.  Ultimately, the bill is compromised and could do with being strengthened – the Sierra Club has some ideas<\/a> – but clearing cap and trade from the committee loaded with coal-state Congresscritters and headed by the Dingellsaurus for decades is significant.<\/p>\n

\u2022 First Lady Maria Shriver planted a garden<\/a> at the Capitol. If this budget gets any worse, we might need to expand that garden and sell the produce to pay off some of the state debt.<\/p>\n

\u2022 It’s not so much that the SacBee posted a kind of childish op-ed on their website, it’s that they tried to scrub it unsuccessfully<\/a>.  A lot of newspapers post bad op-eds, I don’t know what they were afraid of.  Nevertheless, the far right is in a tizzy about it, because they’re victim addicts and everything’s about them.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The California budget will be the same size as it was in 1999<\/a> assuming the current projections are accurate. Because there hasn’t been any inflation since then.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Health Access released a report (PDF)<\/a>showing that at least half a million Californians have lost their insurance<\/a> over the past 18 months.<\/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-8941","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-2kd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941","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=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}