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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; California Politics</title>
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		<title>Marijuana Prices in California</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/california-politics/marijuana-prices-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/california-politics/marijuana-prices-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following our debates here about the price of marijuana, I thought I would flag for people&#8217;s interest this piece by Michael Montgomery. His reporting indicates that after dropping lower than $1,000 pound ($62.50/ounce), Northern California prices for the latest harvest have now rebounded to $2,000-$2,500 a pound ($125-$156/ounce). I suspect normal market forces, bad weather [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Berkeley protests</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/california-politics/berkeley-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/california-politics/berkeley-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an OWS-affiliated (whatever that actually means) crowd tried to occupy what functions as a quad at Berkeley, with tents in which to stay a while.  Campus police and Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrived in armor looking like Darth Vaders, cleared the tents away by force, pulled down signs, and brutalized a bunch of students [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two New Options for Goodwin Liu</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/california-politics/two-new-options-for-goodwin-liu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/california-politics/two-new-options-for-goodwin-liu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dysfunctional Senate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To the surprise of exactly no one, Senate Republicans will filibuster Goodwin Liu&#8217;s nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.  As I argued yesterday, this really shouldn&#8217;t matter if the administration&#8217;s eventual goal is to appoint Liu to the United States Supreme Court: many of the greatest justices had no or virtually no judicial [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Feeding the Trolls</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/california-politics/feeding-the-trolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/california-politics/feeding-the-trolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and its methods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=18495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is so.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reality surfacing in California</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/california-politics/reality-surfacing-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/california-politics/reality-surfacing-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Brown has issued a budget that engages a $25b deficit.  Note the word engages; not &#8220;papers over&#8221; or &#8220;hides with wishful thinking&#8221; or &#8220;lies about&#8221;; engages. There&#8217;s plenty of work not done yet, but this is huge: for the first time in recent memory, our elected chief executive is telling us the truth. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>California&#8217;s Budget Crisis: Make the Voters Decide</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/california-politics/californias-budget-crisis-make-the-voters-decide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/california-politics/californias-budget-crisis-make-the-voters-decide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[California's voters need to take responsibility for the state's budget, and stop blaming the politicians.  Here's the way to make them do that.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Response to Justice Alito about Prison Overcrowding in California</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/california-politics/response-to-justice-alito-about-prison-overcrowding-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/california-politics/response-to-justice-alito-about-prison-overcrowding-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisons and penal policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Supreme Court debates whether to force California to finally reduce overcrowding in its wretched prison system, Justice Alito asks “If 40,000 prisoners are going to be released&#8230;[do] you really believe that if you were to come back here two years after that you would be able to say they haven’t contributed to an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Proposition 19 Actually Passed!</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/california-politics/proposition-19-actually-passed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/california-politics/proposition-19-actually-passed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans have told the Big Lie for 30 years, and are finding it hard now to say, "Sorry folks: just kidding."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Funny, It Doesn&#8217;t Look Bluish</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/california-politics/funny-it-doesnt-look-bluish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/california-politics/funny-it-doesnt-look-bluish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy and Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The initial results in California last night make my state seem like a sane drop of blue in the country.  Jerry Brown won for Governor; Barbara Boxer was re-elected; and Proposition 23, which would have reversed the state&#8217;s landmark climate change law, was resoundingly defeated.  Voters also approved Proposition 25, which allows the state budget [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meg Whitman Is Right</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/california-politics/meg-whitman-is-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/california-politics/meg-whitman-is-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lying in politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayward press]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meg Whitman refuses to take down her negative ads before next Tuesday's election.  She's right.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Public pensions and public unions</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/uncategorized/public-pensions-and-public-unions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/uncategorized/public-pensions-and-public-unions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a long and thoughtful reflection on David Brooks&#8217; bleat about public pensions, Jon admits that there is a public pension problem and maybe even a public employee salary issue.  Here&#8217;s some more along those lines, too long for a comment. My main point is that  the problem is structural: political arrangements, intentional and other, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marijuana Legalization and the Small Grow Bank Shot</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/california-politics/marijuana-legalization-and-the-small-grow-bank-shot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/california-politics/marijuana-legalization-and-the-small-grow-bank-shot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rich people frequently get their way in politics, and will probably do so with Proposition 19. Another Croesus has written a big check to the pro-side, which has outspent the opposition by at least 10-to-1. As it becomes more likely that the Proposition will pass, increasing pressure is being put on Attorney General Holder to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>The People Who are Supposed to Implement Proposition 19 Are Against It</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/california-politics/the-people-who-are-supposed-to-implement-proposition-19-are-against-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/california-politics/the-people-who-are-supposed-to-implement-proposition-19-are-against-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=13294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Proposition 19 calls for a legal marijuana industry and market regulated by California counties and cities. The California State Association of Counties just announced that they oppose Proposition 19 as did the League of California Cities a few months back. I tend to ignore most organizations&#8217; stance (yeah or nay) on ballot propositions because they [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drug tourism in the Netherlands: Any lessons for California?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/california-politics/drug-tourism-in-the-netherlands-any-lessons-for-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/california-politics/drug-tourism-in-the-netherlands-any-lessons-for-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Maastricht is battling the European Union over whether it can prevent drug tourism by having “coffee shop” sales restricted to Dutch citizens. If the EU rules that Dutch coffee shops cannot deny cannabis sales to people from outside of the Netherlands, Maastricht may follow the lead of other Dutch border cities, which [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>State-level disparities in crack vs. powder cocaine sentences: Unfinished business</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/california-politics/state-level-disparities-in-crack-vs-powder-cocaine-sentences-unfinished-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/california-politics/state-level-disparities-in-crack-vs-powder-cocaine-sentences-unfinished-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisons and penal policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The effects of the federal crack vs. powder cocaine sentencing disparity were well-documented at the federal level, but such assessments did not capture the damage inflicted in the states that adopted doppelganger legislation in the late 1980s. Collectively, the states imprison over six times as many people as does the federal government, making state-level reform [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Judge Vaughn Walker and Coping with Vilification</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/california-politics/judge-vaughn-walker-and-coping-with-vilification/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/california-politics/judge-vaughn-walker-and-coping-with-vilification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people may wonder how Judge Vaughn R. Walker is holding up under the brutal, often homophobic tirades to which he is now being subjected for his recent ruling on gay marriage. At a Stanford drug policy forum about a decade ago, we were seated together at the closing dinner. The interaction that evening makes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Apples and baseballs</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/california-politics/apples-and-baseballs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/california-politics/apples-and-baseballs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisons and penal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;are about the same size and shape. It&#8217;s an iron law of sound household management, ignore it at your peril, and I know you will recognize its absolute unvarying truth, that you can put a baseball in your fruitbowl only if you&#8217;re willing to take one apple out of it. So what? Does any sane [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Saving California&#8217;s universities</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/california-politics/saving-californias-universities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/california-politics/saving-californias-universities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisons and penal policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's enough money in the prison budget to get it done.  The trick is having fewer prisoners.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teachers&#8217; Association President proves a point.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/06/california-politics/teachers-association-president-proves-a-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/06/california-politics/teachers-association-president-proves-a-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections 2010 and 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[California Teachers Association president David A. Sanchez makes the strongest case he can for Tom Torlakson in the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction.  Draw your own conclusions.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>She leaned the company.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/california-politics/she-leaned-the-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/california-politics/she-leaned-the-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language and usage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina brings her message to the people: "she leaned the company."]]></description>
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		<title>California voters: homework assignment</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/california-politics/california-voters-homework-assignment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/california-politics/california-voters-homework-assignment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[George Lakoff has a simple &#8220;Majority Rule&#8221; initiative in the works to remove the supermajority requirements for taxes and a budget from the California constitution.  This would remove one of the most important millstones from the neck of the California governing process.  It needs a lot of signatures to get on the ballot, but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Joke of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/california-politics/joke-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/california-politics/joke-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strange world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mickey Kaus is challenging Barbara Boxer for the US senate Democratic nomination. Really. No, really. Do you think that this is a hoax?  Nothing up at Kausfiles yet. UPDATE:  Via the invaluable LA Observed, Mickey hasn&#8217;t actually filed yet; he&#8217;s only taken out papers.  But as Kevin Roderick notes, &#8220;he sounds close.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some new scenery along the slow downward path of UC Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/01/california-politics/some-new-scenery-along-the-slow-downward-path-of-uc-berkeley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/01/california-politics/some-new-scenery-along-the-slow-downward-path-of-uc-berkeley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The whole university is dismantling itself, and parts of the machinery are not working.  For example, an MPH applicant to the Public Health School received this letter (passed on by a reader): Thank you for your application to our MPH program in Public Health Nutrition.  Due to budget cuts, we are not able to offer [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>University budget, prison budget</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/01/california-politics/university-budget-prison-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/01/california-politics/university-budget-prison-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The governor proposes swapping prison uniforms for mortarboards.  I'm all for it.  But he's proposing to do it the wrong way.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Paying for higher education</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/11/california-politics/paying-for-higher-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/11/california-politics/paying-for-higher-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy briefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Debate in California about the funding cuts for higher education has become quite perplexing, partly because some of the parties are not thinking very clearly about it, partly because the question is fairly complicated, partly because the politics of California budgeting have become so pathological. In response to relentless nagging from David Schutz (well, he [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger&#8217;s REAL Test on Climate</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/california-politics/schwarzeneggers-real-test-on-climate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/california-politics/schwarzeneggers-real-test-on-climate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy and Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does Arnold Schwarzenegger care more about Tea Partiers or the planet?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>More notes from the California higher education battlefield</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/california-politics/8652/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/california-politics/8652/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight was the big Cal teach-in before tomorrow's day of walkout/protest/demonstration scheduled for all University of California campuses....Back in the day, a teach-in was teaching: faculty who knew something about an issue tried to explain it, sometimes just propagandizing but preferably illuminating complications and subtleties of the state of affairs (Vietnam War, racial injustice, etc.) triggering the state of protest. Tonight, not so much; the six speakers were earnest and lively, but the critical thinking of which we're supposed to be a veritable factory had mostly left the building.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Field notes from a failing state</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/uncategorized/field-notes-from-a-failing-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/uncategorized/field-notes-from-a-failing-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday evening I attended a &#8220;teach-in&#8221; sponsored by the local chapter of student &#8220;government&#8221; at Berkeley, the Senate of Associated Students of the University of California.  A half-dozen faculty (not me) offered ten-minute perspectives on current events, which are heading to a university-wide walkout on Sept. 24; Friday the Senate voted unanimously to support [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teaching in tough times</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/california-politics/teaching-in-tough-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/california-politics/teaching-in-tough-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pay cuts are better than layoffs.
In the situation faced by UC faculty, calling them "furloughs" is better than calling them pay cuts.
So I don't see any moral imperative to act out the idea of a furlough by teaching less.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger Plays Sadist</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/07/california-politics/schwarzenegger-plays-sadist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/07/california-politics/schwarzenegger-plays-sadist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger cuts programs for abused and neglected kids in order to protect Hummer drivers.  Ladies and gentlemen: compassionate conservatism.
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