November 6, 2007 Blog Roundup and Open Thread

by jsw [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

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• Claim of California Jobs Moving Out of State Shown by Study
  to be a Myth - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/claim_of_califo.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/claim_of_califo.html

When you have a union of
writers, what do you think you get when they strike?

• How We Think of the Striking Screenwriters Says a Lot About
  Us - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/how_we_think_of.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/how_we_think_of.html
• skippy the bush kangaroo: strike one
  
  http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2007/11/strike-one.html
• LAist: Writers Strike - Day One Recap
  
  http://laist.com/2007/11/05/writers_strike_1.php
• LAist: Photo Essay: WGA Strike at Fox
  
  http://laist.com/2007/11/05/photo_essay_wga.php
• Metroblogging Los Angeles: More reason to support the WGA
  
  href="http://blogging.la/archives/2007/11/more_reason_to_support_the_wga.phtml">http://blogging.la/archives/2007/11/more_reason_to_support_the_wga.phtml

What to do about McNerney?

• Drinking Liberally Oakland - Listen Up Jerry!
  
  href="http://drinkingliberally.org/blogs/oakland/archives/2007/11/listen_up_jerry.html">http://drinkingliberally.org/blogs/oakland/archives/2007/11/listen_up_jerry.html
• The Bayne of Blog's - California Notes: Are you ready to
  hand CD 11 back to the Republicans so soon?
  
  href="http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/11/are-you-ready-to-hand-cd-11-back-to.html">http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/11/are-you-ready-to-hand-cd-11-back-to.html

Health Care

• The Bayne of Blog's - California Notes: New health care
  compromise to be put on table
  
  href="http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/11/new-health-care-compromise-to-be-put-on.html">http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/11/new-health-care-compromise-to-be-put-on.html
• California's Opportunity to Pass a Compassionate Choice Law
  on the Tenth Anniversary of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act -
  California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/californias_opp.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/californias_opp.html
• Squeeze Play: The California Democratic Health Care
  Compromise to Be Unveiled Today - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/squeeze_play_th.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/squeeze_play_th.html
• California Takes First Step Towards Disenrolling Children
  from
  Health Coverage Because of Bush Veto of SCHIP - California Progress
  Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/california_take.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/california_take.html
• Today's press conference on the California compromise
  Democratic health bill is our site of the day - California Progress
  Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/todays_press_co.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/todays_press_co.html
• Democrats Compromise on Health Care? Mandates Coming? |
  Working Californians
  
  href="http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/11/05/democrats_compromise_on_health_care_mandates_coming">http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/11/05/democrats_compromise_on_health_care_mandates_coming
• D-Day: On Gimmicks
  
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/11/on-gimmicks.html

Mike Carona

• Joe Scott: The Body Politic - Carona and Schwarzenegger
  
  href="http://www.joescott3.com/index.php/js/permalink/carona_and_schwarzengger/">http://www.joescott3.com/index.php/js/permalink/carona_and_schwarzengger/
• The Liberal OC ? The Wayback Machine: Flash Report Endorses
  Carona?s Re-Election
  
  href="http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/11/05/the-wayback-machine-flash-report-endorses-caronas-re-election/">http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/11/05/the-wayback-machine-flash-report-endorses-caronas-re-election/
• The Liberal OC ? Peace Officer Code of Ethics
  
  href="http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/11/06/peace-officer-code-of-ethics/">http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/11/06/peace-officer-code-of-ethics/

Local

• Left In SF ? SF Election slapdown?
  
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2331
• Left In SF ? Notes from the PTA?s Achievement Gap Forum
  
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2332
• BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News
  ? Time to Scrap the 2009 Municipal Election
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5077#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5077#more
• BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News
  ? Yawn, it?s Election Day in San Francisco
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5079#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5079#more
• BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News
  ? San Francisco Election Predictions
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5072#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5072#more
• The People's Vanguard of Davis: Sights from the School
  Board Races
  
  href="http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/11/sights-from-school-board-races.html">http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/11/sights-from-school-board-races.html
• SFist: Breaking News: Record-Low Voter Turnout Expected
  
  http://sfist.com/2007/11/05/low_voter_turno_1.php
• Left In SF ? Stop by the Yes on A, No on H election night
  victory party
  
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2335
• happening-here?: Election day, 2007: a moment for ranked
  choice voting
  
  href="http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/11/election-day-2007-moment-for-ranked.html">http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/11/election-day-2007-moment-for-ranked.html
• SoHum Parlance: Did anybody else get the Maxxam push poll?
  
  href="http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/11/did-anybody-else-get-maxxam-push-poll.html">http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/11/did-anybody-else-get-maxxam-push-poll.html
• GregDewar.com: Yeah, I Voted for Mayor Newsom. SFW?
  
  href="http://www.gregdewar.com/2007/11/yeah_i_voted_for_mayor_newsom.html">http://www.gregdewar.com/2007/11/yeah_i_voted_for_mayor_newsom.html
• Daily Kos: Sonoma County: the toll of police slayings
  
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/6/16748/4596
• SoHum Parlance: All said and done
  
  href="http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/11/all-said-and-done.html">http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/11/all-said-and-done.html

Everything Else

• D-Day: Ending The Bush Dog Majority
  
  href="http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/11/ending-bush-dog-majority.html">http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/11/ending-bush-dog-majority.html
• Irvine Housing Blog ? Blog Archive ? Mortgage Magma: The
  Coming Eruption of Option ARM?s
  
  href="http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/11/05/tick-tock-tick-tock-the-sound-of-the-option-arm-timebomb/">http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/2007/11/05/tick-tock-tick-tock-the-sound-of-the-option-arm-timebomb/
• California's Civil Rights Commission Caving to Pressure
  from
  Schwarzenegger Administration to Defend Itself from Planned
  Dismantlement - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/californias_civ.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/californias_civ.html
• The California Majority Report // Today's Fresh Meat
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2412">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2412
• SFist: Rights Are Wrong?
  
  http://sfist.com/2007/11/05/rights_are_wron.php
• I'm Not One to Blog, But...: Feinstein Monster and the
  Abby-Normal Voting Record
  
  href="http://imnotonetoblogbut.blogspot.com/2007/11/feinstein-monster-and-abby-normal.html">http://imnotonetoblogbut.blogspot.com/2007/11/feinstein-monster-and-abby-normal.html
• The BRAD BLOG : Duncan Hunter Calls for Paper Ballots in
  Response to Why Tuesday's 'Candidate Challenge'
  
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5249
• The California Majority Report // Poizner: California's
  Next Quackenbush?
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2415">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2415
• Combating the New Jim Crow in California - California
  Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/combating_the_n.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/combating_the_n.html
• The California Majority Report // Today's Fresh Meat
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2419">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2419
• Anti-Hillary Sentiment Tests Spiritual Principles of This
  Californian - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/anti-hillary_se.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/11/anti-hillary_se.html
• California Policy Inbox ? Blog Archive ? California?s
  Budget Woes Deepen
  
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=395