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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

With a water bond proposal sinking (left, like that ship) and health care reform in critical condition, Governor Schwarzenegger might end the fall's special legislativesession with more of a thud than a bang, the Sacramento Bee reports.Some of the blame falls with the Republican leadership, who seem totake delight in watching Arnold fail, but the Governor himselfcertainly lacks the leverage and luster of 2006, an election year

Offset credits as a strategy for reducing emissions can becontroversial, but they seem to work precisely as intended in the caseof Joseph Farms General Manager Carl Morris, who made extra money and generated electricity by covering his ranch's cow manure, the Bee reports. The real test for offsets, however, will come when hard carbon ceilings are enacted.

The Governor has vetoed 78 bills in the last two days, more than at any time this year, including the California Dream Act,which would have allowed the children of illegal immigrants to competefor non-competitive scholarships, as well as bills on wagediscrimination, identity theft, public records and a score of otherissues, writes Frank Russo of the California Progress Report.

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