News Roundup, 3/27/06

by: jsw

Mon Mar 27, 2006 at 14:50:22 PM PST

California News Roundup for today on the flip. Teasers: Pot, minimum wage, end of life choices, three strikes, State Senate District 35, CA-50, salmon, immigration, stem cells, and the race for lieutenant governor.

• Sick people vs. cannabis prohibitionists in the 9th Circuit. I thought we settled this in the 1920's: prohibition doesn't work.


• Governor Schwarzenegger is threatening to veto any minimum wage bill that indexes the minimum wage to inflation.


• Assembly Member Patty Berg (D-Whole Damn North Coast) is preparing to introduce a bill to allow Californians to choose the way they face the end of their life.


• L.A. County DA pushes for reform to 3 Strikes.


• LA Times has a rundown of the Special Election for State Senate District 35. Republican lock, but the infighting is fun to watch from the outside.


• The Chron on CA-50. Nothing particularly new, but it is amusing to see the Flash Report simultaneously claim CA-50 as a safe Republican seat and bash the current districting scheme.


• Op-Ed from the Chron on who gets to benefit from state-funded stem cell research.


• SacBee editorial on the looming salmon fishery closure. Turns out there was a plan to restore the fishery -- just nobody did nothing in the plan. Shocking.


• New America Media has an article about the various immigration plans and some Latino groups' reactions.


• Interesting piece from the LA Times about labor's growing clout in Los Angeles.


• Inside Bay Area profiles Jackie Speier and Liz Figueroa, two of the three Democratic candidates for Lieutenant Governor.