{"id":9449,"date":"2009-07-22T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-22T03:06:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T03:06:40","slug":"july-21-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/22\/july-21-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"July 21 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some other news from around the state:<\/p>\n

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\u2022 CalPERS issued a report on the status of the fund.  And, well, it isn’t pretty<\/a>. CalPERS holdings are down 23% for 2008. Meanwhile, CalSTRS is down 25% for 2008. Ouch. However, CalPERS spokespeople are saying that they will have no problem meeting their current obligations in the short term.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Check out this video<\/a> of John Yoo getting pranked by British TV at his Berkeley Law class.  Why is British comedy so much more daring than American comedy?  Or American news?<\/p>\n

\u2022 If we go by the fundraising numbers, Barbara Boxer looks safe<\/a> for re-election.  She has a war chest of $4.6 million dollars to this point.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the continuing saga of Delecia Holt, a former Republican Congressional Candidate, there are some new charges<\/a>.  She’s facing fraud charges for allegedly stealing $56,000 from a number of people and companies.<\/p>\n

\u2022 LA medical marijuana dispensaries are begging to be taxed<\/a> rather than run out of business as the City Council closes a loophole that allowed them to proliferate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The City of Sacramento might try to purchase $10 million (or so) of California IOUs<\/a>. A service to the public and an investment, all in one.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sen. Mark Leno has introduced a bill to recognize same-sex marriages from outside the state<\/a>. There are a number of issues here. First, Californians who were married outside of California during or prior to the period of gay marriages last year were told they were now legally married in California after the decision went into effect. Then, a little more questionable is whether couples married after Prop 8 passed can be recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some other news from around the state:<\/p>\n

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\u2022 CalPERS issued a report on the status of the fund.  And, well, it isn’t pretty<\/a>. CalPERS holdings are down 23% for 2008. Meanwhile, CalSTRS is down 25% for 2008. Ouch. However, CalPERS spokespeople are saying that they will have no problem meeting their current obligations in the short term.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Check out this video<\/a> of John Yoo getting pranked by British TV at his Berkeley Law class.  Why is British comedy so much more daring than American comedy?  Or American news?<\/p>\n

\u2022 If we go by the fundraising numbers, Barbara Boxer looks safe<\/a> for re-election.  She has a war chest of $4.6 million dollars to this point.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the continuing saga of Delecia Holt, a former Republican Congressional Candidate, there are some new charges<\/a>.  She’s facing fraud charges for allegedly stealing $56,000 from a number of people and companies.<\/p>\n

\u2022 LA medical marijuana dispensaries are begging to be taxed<\/a> rather than run out of business as the City Council closes a loophole that allowed them to proliferate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The City of Sacramento might try to purchase $10 million (or so) of California IOUs<\/a>. A service to the public and an investment, all in one.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sen. Mark Leno has introduced a bill to recognize same-sex marriages from outside the state<\/a>. There are a number of issues here. First, Californians who were married outside of California during or prior to the period of gay marriages last year were told they were now legally married in California after the decision went into effect. Then, a little more questionable is whether couples married after Prop 8 passed can be recognized.<\/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-9449","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-2sp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449","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=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}