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\u2022 San Francisco district attorney, and Attorney General candidate, Kamala Harris was in DC today<\/a> to talk about gangs and gang violence protection.<\/p>\n \u2022 More from Carla Marinucci: Ron Nehring is doing his level best to attack McCain-Feingold<\/a>. Because corporations need to express themselves too, and ol’ Ron hates to see a monolithic corporation pseudo-person held down.<\/p>\n \u2022 CalPERS says that it won’t start taking big gambles to recover losses<\/a> from the recession.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dan Walters has a good column on the devestating appellate decision<\/a> that gives even more teeth to the already odious Costa-Hawkins Act. Costa-Hawkins says that new rental units cannot have rent control. The latest decision says that cities cannot require developers to include a certain number of below market units. This is a huge blow to affordable housing activists, and really to the state in a time of a housing crisis. Costa-Hawkins should be reformed under a more progressive Legislature and a Democratic Governor come 2011. However, it is hard to be confident that it will happen given the balance of political power between developers and renters. And by the way, Jim Costa is still a Democratic Congressman from the Central Valley.<\/p>\n \u2022 California students are leaving high schools and entering universities unprepared<\/a> to face the rigors of the coursework there. And should they get to college, the fees keep rising, multiple times in the same school year, even. That’s why some CSU students are suing the state<\/a>, claiming that the second fee hike in the same school year amounts to a breach of contract. This bears watching.<\/p>\n \u2022 California finds itself off of Moody’s bond-rating watch list<\/a>, but that’s hardly a ringing vote of confidence for our economic future. Meanwhile, the bond ratings themselves<\/em> have not upgraded, showing how Wall Street eked out more interest payments from California even though the odds of getting paid back were never in doubt.<\/p>\n \u2022 Lots of empty office space<\/a> in San Jose and across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To the links: <\/p>\n \u2022 San Francisco district attorney, and Attorney General candidate, Kamala Harris was in DC today<\/a> to talk about gangs and gang violence protection.<\/p>\n \u2022 More from Carla Marinucci: Ron Nehring is doing his level best to attack McCain-Feingold<\/a>. Because corporations need to express themselves too, and ol’ Ron hates to see a monolithic corporation pseudo-person held down.<\/p>\n \u2022 CalPERS says that it won’t start taking big gambles to recover losses<\/a> from the recession.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dan Walters has a good column on the devestating appellate decision<\/a> that gives even more teeth to the already odious Costa-Hawkins Act. Costa-Hawkins says that new rental units cannot have rent control. The latest decision says that cities cannot require developers to include a certain number of below market units. This is a huge blow to affordable housing activists, and really to the state in a time of a housing crisis. Costa-Hawkins should be reformed under a more progressive Legislature and a Democratic Governor come 2011. However, it is hard to be confident that it will happen given the balance of political power between developers and renters. And by the way, Jim Costa is still a Democratic Congressman from the Central Valley.<\/p>\n \u2022 California students are leaving high schools and entering universities unprepared<\/a> to face the rigors of the coursework there. And should they get to college, the fees keep rising, multiple times in the same school year, even. That’s why some CSU students are suing the state<\/a>, claiming that the second fee hike in the same school year amounts to a breach of contract. This bears watching.<\/p>\n