The Mahablog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gary Kamiya has a great piece at Salon called “Californians are sinking themselves.” He makes a similar argument I have made in the recent past, that while California’s politicians are the ones directly responsible for the fiscal mess its in, the ultimate responsibility is with the citizens of California. Kamiya catalogs the causes of the [...]
America's Finest Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I begin reading the long story by Mark Leibovich in this coming Sunday's N.Y. Times magazine with dread. I have literally not read a single story by an East Coast-based newspaper or magazine in five years that goes beyond the...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As California marked its second day of a new fiscal year without a budget agreement, the state government moved ahead on Thursday to issue billions of dollars in "IOUs" in order to avoid a cash crisis.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Deep in debt and short on cash, California on Thursday started churning out its first batch of IOUs in nearly two decades amid grumbles from bankers, growing public outrage and scant progress in negotiations to solve the state's widening budget deficit.
Jack Bog's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The City of Portland will, too, eventually. Get a sneak preview of our future here....
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
B ERKELEY, Calif. | Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold. Dairyman Mike O’Kelly is wondering whether he is going to have to let employees go. The problem? They rely on contracts with state agencies for much of their business, and Thursday cash-strapped California began sending them IOUs instead of money until...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
ELK GROVE, Calif. - A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch.Officials at the Elk Grove Unified School District asked families of the teacher's 24 students to get rid of the DVD after the unintended clip was found spliced in a scene where children were sharing...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
For the first time since 1992, the state is issuing IOUs. California does not have enough cash on hand to pay all of its bills.
LAist (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
So California is issuing IOUs for the first time since 1992. They carry an interest rate of 3.75%, but that's apparently on an annual basis only earning about ten bucks for every thousand you're owed. But that's not stopping people from trying to buy them on Craigslist! Unlikely it's for profit, it's probably just for the kitsch souvenir factor .
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton Something that you aren’t seeing in the news is a whacked side-effect of California’s financial and environmental incompetence - the Central Valley Dust Bowl… A great article was written on this at Beetle Blogger: Dead and Dying–California’s Central Valley Dust Bowl. The entire length of the 5 freeway between Sacramento and Los Angeles is [...]...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Officials say the designation also signals a possible future collaboration between California's proposed high-speed rail system and a separate project shuttling passengers between the two regions.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
"I've dealt with the state for many, many years, and the failure of the state to come up with a budget has always caused problems for July and August," said O'Kelly, owner of Morning Glory Inc. in Susanville, which supplies milk and eggs to prisons. "This particular economic crisis, however, has me more worried than all of the others combined."
LAist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
A state board voted today to hand out IOUs that will be repaid on October 2nd at the earliest. Although Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's staff wanted a repayment date to be set for as last as next year June with an 1.5% interest rate, staff with Controller John Chiang said people need their money and next year would be too late. Ultimately, the Pooled Money Investment Board sided with Chiang and put...
Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Apprendi fans have a lot worth reading today. In addition to my new little discussion of Apprendi-land in the Columbia Law Review's sidebar (discussed here), today the California Supreme Court has lots of Apprendi talk in People v. Nguyen, No....
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | yesterday
That's the title of Phillip Reece's article in today's Sacramento Bee. LINK Murderers are more likely to be sentenced to death in conservative California counties, particularly in the southern part of the state, according to a Bee analysis of recent...
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Lucky Ali | 06/19/2009
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kahukale | 05/11/2009
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zarna111 | 05/06/2009
Miss California Carrie Prejean has Nude Pics (SFW) Miss California Carrie Prejean is the center of a new scandal that doesn’t involve her controversial opinions for once. Prejean shot to infamy due to statements during the Miss USA pageant in which she spoke out against gay marriage. In interviews following the pageant, runner up Prejean defended her right to an opinion and said she wouldn’t change...
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