[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Speaker-elect Karen Bass has a start date: May 13, just as the budget battle will be heating up, the Sacramento Beereports. Bass will be great, and it doesn't hurt that Fabian Nunez willstill be around to help out before he is termed out.

Bass and Darrell Steinberg, her Democratic counterpart in the State Senate, have promised to be frugal in their personal habits, refusing to live a lavish lifestyle on the public's dime, according tothe Contra Costa Times. A lot of the problem has more to do withperception that meaningful dollars, but Bass and Steinberg are right totake this line.

Global warming isn't just impacting penguins and polar ice caps, it could very well effect how and where people live in the Bay Area, for instance, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. According to theChronicle, homes closer to the Bay and in some parts of the city andOakland could be underwater, and higher density may be needed to justto keep up with population growth.

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by gohlkus [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

With the February 5th primary election approaching rapidly, in which voters in California and 21 other states will pick which presidential candidates represent each party, we have a rare opportunity to make a monumental decision.

For the first time in years, we have an opportunity to elect a president who will give the global climate crisis the level of attention that is required to tackle it.

But how are we to know where the candidates stand on global warming, if reporters simply refuse to ask the right questions? Of the 2,938 questions asked of the presidential candidates since January 2007, just 6 mentioned global warming (source: League of Conservation Voters).

So the California League of Conservation Voters is taking matters into our own hands. Read on....

The California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV) has asked presidential candidates four critical questions about global warming, in short: