July 2010
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LA Times follows Byrne's lead
Alternative weeklies don’t have anywhere near the same readership as the major dailies. And when an alt-reporter breaks a big story, it’s often only after the mainstream press picks up on it that his reporting has the greatest impact.
Consider muckraker Peter Byrne’s report “Billion-dollar baby,” which ran in SN&R and several other alt-weeklies last month.
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Hilarious GOP: Democrats to blame for pregnant cow...
I’m not a PETA person. And I certainly don’t think the state Dems or GOP ought to be taken too seriously, ever. But I’ve got to call bullshit on this press release from the California Republican Party yesterday:
Let’s get Mooooving on State Budget
How many more cows must die before Dems act?
“Obviously, the stress of state budget uncertainty is taking its toll...
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cosmogarvin2:
So long, Lonesome
This is a really, really good idea. →
cosmogarvin2:
Calling me a “liberal piece of garbage” will cost you extra…
“The Bee wasn’t always an anti-union paper. It actively supported the...”
– …So says reader “ragingpinko,” re the Bee’s hardon for labor. When did state workers organize? Greatest thing that ever happened to Sacramento? It’d be interesting to go back and read the Bee editorials from back then… (via cosmogarvin2)
Don’t panic
cosmogarvin2:
Much of California’s climate-change strategy can survive Big Oil’s ballot attack—sort of
Proposition 23 is billed as a titanic battle between Big Oil and big green, slugging it out over California’s budding attempts to fight climate change.
It’s certainly going to be an expensive ballot fight, with out-of-state oil companies and other business interests funneling more than $3...
In Bites this week: Nobody for mayor in 2012 →
cosmogarvin2:
We’ve done ok without one so far…
Green Collar Economy pretty good for the mayor's...
cosmogarvin2:
Interesting story from the Sacramento Press about the much, much, much hyped Van Jones speech in Sacto. But I was kind of confused by this paragraph:
Jones wrote “The Green Collar Economy.” Copies of the book were being sold by Underground Books in the lobby of the Byron Sher auditorium in the Cal/EPA headquarters where the meeting was held.
But, that can’t be right. Doesn’t...
“I noted that the Senate and Assembly Republican leaders today trotted out the...”
– Nathan Barankin, communications guy for Senate President Pro Tem, Darrell Steinberg. For more on the deficit clock go here and here and here. (via cosmogarvin2)
Price of leadership: $43 million
cosmogarvin2:
It’s cliche as hell, but PG&E needs to put its money where its mouth is. A few weeks back, just after voters rejected the company’s jaw-droppingly cynical Proposition 16, PG&E CEO Peter Darbee penned an essay for to the San Francisco Chronicle, titled “The price of leadership.”
He opens with this chestnut: “Prime Minister Tony Blair said a few years ago, ‘I do not...
“In many ways, shopping-center owners want you to think of the mall as a public...”
– http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1450328 (via cosmogarvin2)
