September 12, 2007 Blog Roundup

by jsw [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

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• California Progress Report - Sentencing Commission Law
  Among Over 200 Bills Left for the Last Day of
  the 2007 California Legislative Session
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/sentencing_comm.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/sentencing_comm.html
• California Progress Report - Three Ring Circus in
  Sacramento: Special Session on Health and Water,
  Tonight is Deadline for Governor to Decide Whether to Allow Iraq Vote,
  A Flood of Bills Pass by the Hour Including More Flood Safety
  Legislation
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/three_ring_circ.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/three_ring_circ.html
• California Progress Report - California State Senate
  Adjourns 2007 Session While Bizarre Middle
  of the Night Hearing Held on Newly Minted Prison Guard Pay Bill
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_stat_17.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/california_stat_17.html
• The Liberal OC » Leno/DeVore Industrial Hemp Bill
  Passes
  
  href="http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/lenodevore-industrial-hemp-bill-passes/">http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/lenodevore-industrial-hemp-bill-passes/
• California Progress Report - End of Session: California
  Legislation That Passed to the Governor's
  Desk--And Why You May See Some Zombies Today
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/end_of_session_2.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/end_of_session_2.html

The Librul Academy: or
how the taxpayers of California still employ John Yoo as a law
professor at UC Berkeley

• Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: New UC Irvine Law School
  Hires Chemerinsky as Dean, Then Fires Him for Political Reasons
  
  href="http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2007/09/new-uc-irvine-l.html">http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2007/09/new-uc-irvine-l.html
• The Left Coaster: Who Controls The UC Regents?
  
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011001.php
• The Liberal OC » Too liberal for OC?
  
  href="http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/too-liberal-for-oc/">http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/12/too-liberal-for-oc/

Big fish, smaller ponds

• Left In SF » What’s the alternative to
  Wi-Fi?
  
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2180
• Left In SF » You’re fired!
  
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2181
• Brian Dennert here: Ventura City Council Candidate
  
  href="http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/dennert/archives/2007/09/ventura_city_el.html">http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/dennert/archives/2007/09/ventura_city_el.html
• Working Californians | DWP is on the hot seat over outages
  
  href="http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/11/dwp_is_on_the_hot_seat_over_outages">http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/09/11/dwp_is_on_the_hot_seat_over_outages
• The Ojai Post - Stop the Trucks: Overweight Trucks Damage
  Infrastructure
  
  href="http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/stop_the_trucks_overweight_tru.shtml">http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/09/stop_the_trucks_overweight_tru.shtml
• BeyondChron » Was Newsom Firing Spree a Ploy to
  Raise Campaign Cash?
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4906#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4906#more

Candidates are people too

• Dump Doolittle: Natural Selection
  
  href="http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/natural-selection.html">http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/09/natural-selection.html
• From the Fever Swamp: Harman Pre-Emptively Negotiates Away
  Our Constitional Rights
  
  href="http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/harman-pre-emptively-negotiates-away.html">http://fromthefeverswamp.blogspot.com/2007/09/harman-pre-emptively-negotiates-away.html
• Daily Kos: CA-52: Dems recruit Navy SEAL
  
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/12/121658/354
• DownWithTyranny!: LYNN WOOLSEY TAKES A REAL LEADERSHIP
  STAND-- TELLS PROGRESSIVES TO TAKE ON REACTIONARY INCUMBENTS
  
  href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/09/lynn-woolsey-takes-real-leadership.html">http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/09/lynn-woolsey-takes-real-leadership.html

Everything else

• Media Matters - AP reported California GOP "endorsed"
  Electoral College measure, but not that top GOP lawyer initiated it
  
  http://mediamatters.org/items/200709100001
• Media Matters - Fox News' Estrich misrepresented California
  Democratic electoral vote initiatives
  
  http://mediamatters.org/items/200709100004
• The California Majority Report // Tuesday's Fresh Meat
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2290">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2290
• The California Majority Report // Today's Fresh Meat
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2291">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2291
• The Left Coaster: shouting fire in a crowded landscape
  
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010991.php
• California Progress Report - Senator Sheila
  Kuehl’s Floor Statement Health Care Reform and AB 8
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/senator_sheila.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/senator_sheila.html
• Badlands Journal » Growth robs water from
  existing residents
  
  http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=380
• California Policy Inbox » California Shows
  Steepest Decline Nationally in Number of Gun Dealers
  
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=384
• The BRAD BLOG : The California Top-To-Bottom Review Is
  Still Incomplete
  
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5053
• Politics in the Zeros » Tar sands: The oil
  junkie’s last fix
  
  href="http://polizeros.com/2007/09/12/tar-sands-the-oil-junkies-last-fix/">http://polizeros.com/2007/09/12/tar-sands-the-oil-junkies-last-fix/
• Elliott Petty @ Courage Campaign | Grocery Companies Want
  Employees To Pay Share of Health Care Costs
  
  href="http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/elliottpetty/Bh9">http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/elliottpetty/Bh9
• cab drollery: A Sense Of Democracy
  
  href="http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2007/09/sense-of-democracy.html">http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/2007/09/sense-of-democracy.html
• BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News
  » Nationwide Housing “Crash” A Boon for
  Landlords
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4905#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4905#more
• California Progress Report - Democracy Under Attack Right
  Here in California by Those Who Block Ballot Petitions
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/democracy_under.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/09/democracy_under.html