Thursday, August 31, 2006
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		Say hello to my nuclear friend
		
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		SacBee: Legislative countdown: California takes lead to cut greenhouse gases
		
 - SacBee: Will bill to cut class sizes help? The jury's still out, experts say
 - SacBee: Drug, license bills OK'd
 - CapWkly: Flood legislation returns without builder-opposed provision
 - CapWkly: The other global-warming bill awaits
 - CapWkly: End-of-session roundup
 - CapWkly: The Skinny
 - SFChron: Landmark Deal Warms Up Sac'to
 - SFChron: Bill cuts governor's clout over board that sets levee standards
 - OakTrib: Global warming pact gets past GOP objections
 - CCTimes: Emissions mission may be accomplished
 - CCTimes: Democrats trim funding for governor's prison plan
 - SJMerc: Warm welcome for clean air bill
 - SJMerc: Schools' scores need interpreting
 - SJMerc: Bill linking video, phone, Net services clears Senate
 - StockRec: Passage closed for flood package
 - StockRec: Governor's signature all that stands between Reclamation Board and lawmaker oversight
 - FresBee: Senate OKs lean prison plan
 - FresBee: Air board expansion fails in the Assembly
 - LAT: Sweeping Changes in Elder Care Pass
 - LAT: Checks Roll In as Laws Flow Out
 - LADN: Emission controls milepost for state
 - IVDB: Global warming deal reached
 - RivPE:State takes initiative on global warming
 - NCTimes: Legislature approves landmark community college bill
 - NYT: Officials Reach California Deal to Cut Emissions
 - WashTimes(AP): California to cap greenhouse gases
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		SacBee: New attack on proposal to cut title insurers' fees
		
 - SFChron: State tries to reduce title fees
 - SJMerc: Escrow, title industry protest Garamendi's proposal to roll back fees
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		SFChron: Even top Dems help guv with turnaround
		
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		SJMerc: Poll: Schwarzenegger still ahead by 13 points
		
 - CCTimes: Voters back governor, poll shows
 - OakTrib: Poll:Voters back governor, some expensive bonds
 - LADN: Poll: Arnold in lead with 45%
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		LAT: Labor Group Takes $40-Million Aim at Midterm Elections
		
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		SacBee: Leslie ends a 'dream come true'
		
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		OakTrib: MoveOn.org challenges Pombo on home turf
		
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		CapWkly: The softer-rock side of Jack O'Connell
		
 - LAT: A Vote to Quit the Electoral College
 - LADN: Electoral system in for a change?
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		WashTimes: FEC upholds ad limits
		
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		CCTimes: Bill on L.A. mayor, schools goes to governor
		
 - LAT: Mayor Urges Peace, District Prepares for Legal Battle
 - LAT: For Villaraigosa, Opportunity and Daunting Challenges
 - LADN: LAUSD reform measure likely faces day in court
 - NYT: Los Angeles Mayor Gains Control of the Schools, but Hardly Total Control
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		SJMerc: GOP, businesses object to election-year raise OK'd by Senate
		
 - ModBee: Minimum wage bill leads rush at Capitol
 - LADN: Minimum wage hike approved by state Senate
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		CapWkly: Gaming compacts confound Capitol
		
 - CCTimes: Governor, tribes trade funds for slots
 - SBSun: Tribe plans taking shape
 - SBSun: Tribe awaits word
 - SBSun: Tribe faces last chance this year for Barstow casino
 - RivPE:Gaming pacts race clock
 - SDUT: Sycuan band deal would allow tribe 3,000 more slots
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		SFChron: Cell Phone Bill Gets OK
		
 - CCTimes: Assembly passes hands-free phone bill
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		CapWkly: Term-limits issue dropped for L.A. air board chairman
		
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		SFChron: Zinfandel bill terminated
		
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		VentStar: Weekend rallies set in L.A., Oxnard
		
 - LAT: Thousands to Join Labor Day Rallies
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		SacBee: Bloggers help smoke out senator over stalled bill
		
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		SacBee: U.S. bars Hayat relatives from returning
		
 
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The Golden Pen
		TwnHll: Statistical politics
		
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		FRBlog: What's worse? When Arnold is liberal? Or when he exhibits hubris?
		
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		CalRaces: Governor Garamendi would spell economic disaster for California
		
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		SFChron: A case of mistaken identity
		
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		SFChron: Where cynical politics meets consumer illusions -- single-payer health insurance
		
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		StockRec: State officials have dereliction to duty
		
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		StockRec: Converting prison just another quick fix
		
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		VentStar: Does governor practice good or honest politics?
		
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		NewWest: Schwarzenegger's Big Day, And Big Lead
		
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		LAT: Juice, Grease and Muscle Can Beat Merit
		
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		TwnHll: Gallup points to GOP resurgence
		
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		SacBee: Too much, too late
		
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		SacBee: A good deal for schools
		
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		CapWkly: Slap & Tickle
		
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		SFChron: Legislative pile-up
		
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		SFChron: Slot machine California
		
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		LAT: The Governor's Good Deal
		
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		LAT: New Chief for Troubled Amtrak
		
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		OCReg: Good intentions, bad results
		
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		OCReg: Fat with laws
		
 - OCReg: Fatter with laws
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		SDUT: Dubious, dangerous
		
 - SacBee: Police union opposes arena measures
 - SacBee: County nurses ratify deal
 - SacBee: Extended work hours will speed levee repairs
 - SacBee: Bay Bridge set for closure
 - SFChron: You Just Wait
 - OakTrib: Bay Bridge closing 3 days to East Bay-bound drivers
 - OakTrib: 29 arrested in sexual predator sting Majority of suspects from Bay Area
 - OakTrib: Wolff: San Jose no longer player in contest for A's
 - SJMerc: Owner gives up on moving A's to S.J.
 - StockRec: Proposal involves converting old S.J. facility into reception center
 - StockRec: Blue Shield says commitment to Lodi hinges on Reynolds Ranch development
 - StockRec: Lodi council candidate ignores groundwater complaint
 - StockRec: Infrastructure work OK'd for Agricultural Center
 - ModBee: Lockyer bows out of Merced probe
 - ModBee: Districts gone but paychecks are still coming
 - ModBee: Fire agencies faulted
 - FresBee: Juvenile hall can't use space
 - FresBee: Drug czar reclaims land
 - FresBee: UC Merced chancellor steps down today
 - SCSent: Farmworkers tell Farr they want action on immigration reform
 - SCSent: Santa Cruz schools consider leaving No Child Left Behind behind
 - SLOTrib: Bump in sales tax key in council race
 - SLOTrib: Voters will decide if council members eyeing mayoral posts must resign first
 - VentStar: Rio's recall election certified
 - LAT: State Notifies Deficient Organ-Transplant Programs
 - IVDB: S.B. County hopes speedway deal pays off
 - IVDB: Ontario ordinance to ban parolees, sex offenders group homes
 - SBSun: NASCAR zips into Speedway this holiday weekend
 - SBSun: Plant could area boost in power, if approved
 - RivPE:Park tax narrowly passed by Wildomar voters
 - LAT: School Officials Didn't Violate Law, Judge Says
 - LAT: Placentia Official to Pay Fine
 - OCReg: Lawmakers' final shots
 - OCReg: A last school bell rings
 - OCReg: Gas prices pinch city budgets
 - OCReg: Officials speak up for creek
 - NCTimes: Mackin vows to 'cooperate fully' with probe into spending
 - SDUT: City urged to hire overseers
 - SDUT: Real estate agents irked by sign seizures
 - SDUT: Federal judge delays trial in S.D. pension case until May
 

		WashTimes: New California gay anti-bias law assailed