[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Despite a much earlier primary of February 5, California has still missed out on a lot of the presidential action, the Sacramento Bee reports. Analysts are saying the Super Tuesdaystates, which includes New York, New Jersey, Texas, California andothers, may simply serve to validate a presumed nominee. But if theresults of the earliest states are mixed, things might get moreinteresting.

The Los Angeles Times editorializes with some straight talk on education reform this morning, calling for higher accountability, merit pay for teachersand more aggressive re-assignment of gifted teaches to troubledschools. These are not the only answers—funding is often what holdsback reform—but the problems facing California schools are more thanbudgetary.

Governor Schwarzenegger has been kind to the chiropractic industry, stacking the state's oversight board with appointees who a lax with therules and light on discipline, according to the Bee. Interestingly, theGovernor also slashed the oversight board's budget, making them lessable to regulate even if they wanted to.

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