California News Roundup, 3/31/06

by: jsw

Fri Mar 31, 2006 at 13:22:25 PM PST

California News Roundup is on the flip. It's brief -- quarter-end is a drag. Teasers: Shwarzenegger team campaign finance violations, blogs in CA-50, solar power, salmon, Filson interviewed, Pombo too extreme for other Republicans, anti-government group loses in court, research to be done on CA schools. There's immigration news, but nothing all that new, so not in the roundup today.

• ABC spanks Arnold for campaign finance violations in the failed Special Election power grab.


• CQ Politics has coverage on the blogs' effect on the CA-50 campaign, mostly around the Kaloogian photo fiasco.


• Lake Elsinore, in SoCal, goes live with big solar power project.


• CQ Politics interviews Steve Filson. One wonders if they'll do Jerry McNerney next.


• Capitol Weekly has dueling environmental position pieces by the two main Democratic candidates for Governor: Angelides | Westly.


• A Santa Clara County Judge dismissed a case from an anti-government group trying to stop the voters from deciding on a sales tax adder in June.


• Richard Pombo's intended gutting of the Endangered Species Act may be too radical for the Republicans in the Senate. They're scared of even touching the subject because of what he'd do in conference committee.


• There's gonna be a big ol' pile of reports on the California school system sometime around the end of the year. One hopes that they will be both nonpartisan and informative.


• Klamath salmon get some help going home to spawn: fish ladders. Closure of the fishery still looms, though.


• San Jose is hosting a conference for Asian-American and Indo-American Democratic leaders. This is a good thing.