Subliminal Advertising Is Still Alive and, Well, Still Subliminal

(Editor’s Note: A recurrent jibe by detractors of GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is that she looks like Benjamin Franklin.)

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California’s Financial Mess Hasn’t Gone Unnoticed…

Asked in the new movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps if  he wanted to invest millions in California bonds, Bretton James, the heavy, says:

“California’s made more mistakes than Yogi Berra quoting Shakespeare.”

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Vote Finally Pending on a Budget But Does it Really Balance?

On October 7, the 99th day of the fiscal year, lawmakers are finally expected to vote on a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1.

It is by far the latest delivery of a spending plan in California’s 160-year history. “(This budget) provides a way forward to protect the public structures of education, public safety, infrastructure and vital services, the special two-house legislative Budget Conference Committee said in an October 6 handout summarizing the proposal.    Read more »

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State’s Search for a Cure for Homosexuality Is Officially Over

Among the measures signed into law By Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this year is elimination of a 60-year-old requirement that what’s now called the Department of Mental Health investigate the “causes and cures of homosexuality.”

The bill, AB 2199, is sponsored by Equality California who says the measure’s aim is to remove from state statute a mischaracterization that institutionalizes bigotry against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons.    Read more »

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Getting Closer to Perhaps Beginning to Start to Pass a Budget

This is a modestly edited advisory from the state Senate:

Senator Denise Ducheny, a San Diego Democrat has announced that the special two-house Budget Conference Committee, which she chairs, will reconvene on Wednesday, October 6, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 4203, the Senate’s largest hearing room.

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One of the Alternatives to Candidates Whitman and Brown

Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman aren’t the only choices California has for governor.

In fact, a third choice – Carlos Alvarez of the Peace and Freedom Party – attended Candidate Brown and Candidate Whitman’s first debate September 28 at the Mondavi Center at the University of California at Davis.    Read more »

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Questions That Weren’t Asked in the Gubernatorial Debate

(Editor’s Note: As part of the first gubernatorial debate between Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown at UC Davis’ Mondavi Center, the university solicited questions to ask the candidates. From this list, the question that did get asked – Number 6 – dealt with restoring cuts to higher education. Below is the university’s list of submissions with some punctuation editing.    Read more »

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