Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Congratulations, California! We have a budget. Well, it passed the Assembly at least; on to the Senate! Unfortunately, Democrats had to compromise on tax credits for teachers. The budget passed by two votes over the bare minimum shortly after 4 a.m. this morning.

Condolences, California. The bay area got shaken up this morning by a 4.2 magnitude earthquake. Some windows got broken, but no injuries have been reported. Judging from the video that television news is running, it seems that California only lost a few bottles of wine.

Yesterday, the California Supreme Court ruled that inmates' sentences can be upheld despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that California's sentencing law was unconstitutional. The Los Angeles Times reports that although thousands of cases may be reconsidered, trial courts are free to simply re-issue the original sentence.

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Image courtesy of Sacramento Bee.