Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The sad thing about Catherine Witherspoon's resignation from thestate's Air Resources Board yesterday is that it seems to confirm thefear that Arnold is a "jolly green monster" with no man behind the curtain. The Sacramento Bee reports the Governor wants a new Board chair whowill move forward with his proposed "cap and trade system." We wouldurge Arnold to leave the Board alone.

Dan Walters today addresses the question of Arnold's approach to globalwarming, describing the Governor's international travel andpronouncements of "post-partisanship" working in California. The cruxof the matter is this: will the Governor use his enormous political capital to promote himself as an environmental guru or will he get seriousabout the day-to-day, tough choices needed to make a real dent inemissions?

California potential for high-speed rail (above) is at a crossroads and is in need of upstart funds to get off the ground, writes BillDawson on the California Progress Report blog. One stumbling block isthe opposition of Gov. Schwarzenegger, despite the fact that high speedrail is good for the economy, environment and quality of life.

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