Saturday, November 7, 2009
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		SJMerc: Meg Whitman's charitable foundation's biggest benefactor was environmental group
		
 - Link To Environmental Defense Fund Website
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		Check out this blog post by an EDF leader...
		
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		SacBee: Group again files proposed measure to reduce public pensions in California
		
 - OCR: Public pension reform initiatives are filed for 2010 ballot
 - CCT Political Blotter: Pension reform group files initiatives
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		SanGabTrib:It's Politics: Whatever you do, don't
		
 
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		SacBee: Whitman won't accept salary if elected governor
		
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		SacBee: Lawmaker pay cuts legal, commission boss insists
		
 - SFChron: Cuts in lawmakers' benefits challenged
 - SacBee: Attorney General Brown asked to decide legality of legislative pay cuts in California
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		SacBee: California spends big for CHP protection of some officials
		
 - SFChron: Insurance Commissioner Poiz: Always on duty...even when running for guv
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		SanGabTrib:Gubernatorial candidate Poizner talks tax cuts, budget fixing with business owners in Walnut
		
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		SacBee: BOE candidate gets a new boss, possible campaign boost
		
 - LAT: Schwarzenegger signs part of water package
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		SacBee: GOP guv hopefuls cautious on water package
		
 - SacBee: Water funds by the bucket
 - VCStar: Water bond has funds for county wildlife corridors
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		CCTimes: Harmer loss could galvanize East Bay Republicans in 2010
		
 - SacBee: No surprise: GOP legislators vote with Chamber of Commerce
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		OCReg: Signs hint at Norby win in Nov. 17 Assembly race
		
 - OCReg: Loretta Sanchez not running for governor
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		WaTimes: Fiorina's HP record focus of campaign
		
 - SFChron: 'What's with the hair?'
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		SFChron: Carly to Media: Chuck DeVore Who?
		
 - SLO Trib: California voters oppose new vote on gay marriage, poll finds
 - LAT: Most California voters don't plan to get swine flu vaccine, Times/USC poll finds
 - LAT: Judge reinstates attempt to protect flat-tailed horned lizard
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		RivPE: Benoit will assume new seat Monday
		
 - RivPE: People interested in John J. Benoit's soon-to-be vacant California Senate seat have lots of company.
 - PE: Nestande says he's not running
 - SacBee: CSU stimulus numbers on jobs should have raised suspicion
 - SanGabTrib:Southland economist predicts jobless recovery
 - DesSun:Jobless rate 10.2 percent and climbing
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		SLO Trib: What's next for Maldonado and Blakeslee? They aren't saying yet
		
 - BakCal: Government roundup: Fuller likely to run for Senate
 - CCTimes: Chevron tax refund ruling may set a pattern
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		ModBee: Yea or nay? Costa, Cardoza seek quid pro quo in health care package
		
 - SFChron: Pelosi scrambles for health care votes
 - NYT: Two New Lawmakers Join House Democrats
 
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The Golden Pen
		WSJ: Washington and the Jobs Market
		
 - SDUT: U-T Editorial: Green jobs fraud
 - LAT: Putting California back to work
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		CalBuzz: Tom Campbell: Whaddya Mean I'm No Change?
		
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		LAT: 1989 was a very good year
		
 - LAT: Reagan at the Berlin Wall
 - LAT: Accountability in Beck's LAPD
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		SacBee: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, D.C. schools chancellor are engaged
		
 - SacBee: Editorial: Business as usual backed on charter
 - SacBee: Voters' rejection of Wildhorse Ranch means Davis won't grow anytime soon
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		SFChron: Newsom's back and he's not talking, yet
		
 - SFChron: Mayors adrift: Newsom's Hawaiian vacation
 - SFChron: Theresa Sparks running for S.F. supervisor
 - SFChron: S.F. plan to alter golf course to save critters
 - SFChron: Another crash on Bay Bridge S-curve
 - OakTrib: Oakland police union scrutinized for Perata endorsement
 - SFChron: Tax woes latest drag on Dellums' reputation
 - SFChron: Tax woes latest drag on Dellums' reputation
 - SJMerc: Audit details ousted East Side schools Superintendent Bob Nunez's expenses
 - SJMerc: San Jose keeps lid on litigation costs
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		ModBee: Low turnout, mail-in votes stick county with high costs
		
 - BakCal: Report: Median home price in Bakersfield rises $9,000 in a month
 - FresBee: $450 million offered in water cleanup
 - FresBee: Challenger builds lead in Visalia vote
 - SLO Trib: CSU layoff warnings real or bargaining?
 - SLO Trib: County economic forecast is upbeat
 - SCS: Watsonville Councilman Emilio Martinez pushes to allow voters to pick mayor
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		LAT: Backers of Malibu septic ban rode wave of surfers' testimony
		
 - LAT: California cities act to ban cat declawing
 - LADN: No lawyer for Wendy Greuel
 - IVDB: Chino facility to house mentally ill inmates
 - OCReg: Firefighters lose weapon critical to halting wildfires
 - OCReg: Chapman president is paid more than U.S. president
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		VVDP: Ramos late on reporting $10,000 payment to wife
		
 - SBSun: Libertarian official is registered sex offender
 - RivPE: Winners unchanged in final San Bernardino vote tally
 - RivPE: Inland mosques stress vigilance
 - DesSun:Building Association sues over bylaws
 - DesSun:City funds foreclosure renovation
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		VOSD: Hunter, Filner: Damn Yankees
		
 - SDUT: U-T Editorial: Taxpayers win in overtime ruling
 - SDUT: IRS has refunds for 1,500 in county
 - SDUT: Suit prompts SDSU review of Schemmel travel records
 - NCTimes: REGION: Serra Mesa man among Fort Hood victims
 - NCTimes: REGION: Blueprint for unincorporated lands gets first hearing
 - VOSD: School Employees Off to China Again
 - VOSD: Zucchet Named Union Head
 
