Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

With Convention over, a sense of normalcy will return to CMR. We still have lots of multimedia that we will get up over the next few days (we haven't even touched our video camera footage yet). That said, one piece of video we wish we had recorded but never got a chance to was Senator Chris Dodd's intimate blogger circle discussion. Luckily, Calitics is happy to provide.

To the crime of Driving while Black, we can add Driving while Latino. That's the conclusion of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, after an exhaustive 64,000 person interview. While the study's authors caution that there could be other variables influencing the data, "Police were much more likely to threaten or use force against blacks and Hispanics than against whites in any encounter, whether at a traffic stop or elsewhere."

Governor Schwarzenegger has bought them. Speaker Nunez has bought them. But do carbon offset purchases make a wit of difference? That's the question the Sac Bee poses here in the type of wonkish policy orientated article that makes this recovering scientist smile. Their conclusion: maybe.

Meanwhile, the Bee's editorial board sees fit to analyze the Governor's costly dam proposal, and they're not impressed. "Who knows whether Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will ever manage to build a water reservoir, somewhere, to fulfill one of his goals akin to his favorite flavor of the month. But he sure is making the case in the wrong way." The Bee also cautions against "emotional debates" on this rather analytical policy choice. Unfortunately, Fresno Mayor Alan "Socioeconomic Genocide Masquerading as a Water Policy" Autry didn't get the message.

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