[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Calitics points out that in the grand scheme of things, AB32 may only be a symbolic gesture,given that the airline industry’s carbon emissions alone could hit 1.5billion tons a year by 2025. AB32 is an accomplishment, but should onlybe considered the very beginning.

State senator Jack Scott will serve as the next chancellor of the California community college system,reports the LA Times. Scott, who is chairman of the Senate EducationCommittee, will be termed out of office at the end of this year.

The last thing California needs is teachers abandoning the state—butwhat else can you expect from mass layoffs? According to the LA Times, school districts in other states have been aggressively courting teachers in California. What with 1/3 of the teaching force due to retire in the next decade, the state is facing the specter of a major shortage.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Another day, another update on how the budget crisis is hurting the state. Dozens of disabled persons gathered in San Bernadino yesterday to protest the delay, which willcause an interruption in funding for social services aimed at them.Senator Jack Scott (D-Pasadena) urges reason and warns that many state employees will lose their jobs soon if no budget is passed.

An opinion piece in the Los Angeles Daily news highlights the double standard the LAPD uses in enforcing federal laws. Why enforce federal law on marijuana but not immigration?

Sam Wakim, appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to the North CoastRegional Water Quality Control Board, has resigned abruptly afterrevelations that he had reprinted a racist caricature of a driver's license. The Sacramento Bee has a copy of the fauxdriver's license; a picture really is worth a thousand words here.

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Image courtesy of the San Bernadino County Sun.