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\u2022 This is a couple of days old, but it’s definitely worth noting. In Walnut Creek signature gatherers are being paid $4 per signature<\/a> for a measure having to do with some malls there. For some signatures, they’re getting $10. This is outrageous; it’s not the way representative democracy was supposed to work.<\/p>\n \u2022 George Will loves loves loves him some Meg Whitman<\/a>. Maybe someday she’ll speak to a reporter within 2,500 miles of California. One of her reform items I never knew: reduce<\/em> the number of members in the Assembly, down from 80. If there’s ever anything we need, it’s less accountable government, right?<\/p>\n \u2022 Joe Matthews thinks we’re heading for a federal receivership<\/a>. He says that we are just doing it slow-motion style, pointing to the threatened takeover of some of teh state parks by the National Park Service and the prison system.<\/p>\n \u2022 Just to reiterate, we are just a few days from banks refusing California IOUs<\/a>. That’s when this crisis gets kicked up a notch. In slightly better news, the Franchise Tax Board will take the IOUs<\/a> for payment of income and corporate taxes.<\/p>\n \u2022 Pfizer is pulling out of UCSF’s Mission Bay campus<\/a>. The move is a big blow to what was shaping up to be a great place for biotech business. It’s not clear to what extent this will harm the campus, as there other companies there, but that’s 100,000 square feet of space not being used by a high-profile company.<\/p>\n \u2022 Teenagers are being hit hard<\/a> by the recession. In markets like Sacramento, where labor is everywhere, employers are turning away from seasonal labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World Wide Web Hyperlinks about California political topics:<\/p>\n \u2022 This is a couple of days old, but it’s definitely worth noting. In Walnut Creek signature gatherers are being paid $4 per signature<\/a> for a measure having to do with some malls there. For some signatures, they’re getting $10. This is outrageous; it’s not the way representative democracy was supposed to work.<\/p>\n \u2022 George Will loves loves loves him some Meg Whitman<\/a>. Maybe someday she’ll speak to a reporter within 2,500 miles of California. One of her reform items I never knew: reduce<\/em> the number of members in the Assembly, down from 80. If there’s ever anything we need, it’s less accountable government, right?<\/p>\n \u2022 Joe Matthews thinks we’re heading for a federal receivership<\/a>. He says that we are just doing it slow-motion style, pointing to the threatened takeover of some of teh state parks by the National Park Service and the prison system.<\/p>\n \u2022 Just to reiterate, we are just a few days from banks refusing California IOUs<\/a>. That’s when this crisis gets kicked up a notch. In slightly better news, the Franchise Tax Board will take the IOUs<\/a> for payment of income and corporate taxes.<\/p>\n