8-2-06: Randy White, member of Portland Peak Oil and the City of Portland Peak Oil Task Force, talks about (what else?) peak oil in Portland (California Politics Today™ #615)

8-2-06: June 12, 2004, Oil World article featuring Dr. David Goodstein's April 16, 2004, Etopia Media Book World audio interview about his Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil" raised "peak oil" issues then; 2004 interview now available on 2006's Peak Oil/Global Warming Channel (California Politics Today™ #614)

8-1-06: Bryant Urstadt's interview about "Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse," his August, 2006, Harper's Magazine cover story about "peak oil" and the people who worry about it, is added to the Peak Oil/Global Warming Channel, an innovative worldwide video distribution platform from Brightcove (California Politics Today™ #613)

7-31-06: Etopia Media and the Online Broadcasting Service (OBS) lead the way in using smaller Brightcove Players to syndicate indie news content (California Politics Today™ #612)

7-30-06: Portland, San Francisco, and Salisbury, Maryland, consider "peak oil"; "peak oil" meet-ups planned in Santa Monica and Pasadena, but not in Los Angeles, world oil consumption capital (California Politics Today™ #611)

7-29-06: Etopia Media and the Online Broadcasting Service (OBS) lead the way in using Brightcove Players to syndicate indie news content (California Politics Today™ #610)

7-29-06: Bryant Urstadt talks about "Imagine There's No Oil—Scenes from a Liberal Apocalypse," his August, 2006, Harper's Magazine cover story about "peak oil" and the people who worry about it (California Politics Today™ #609)

7-28-06: Dan Bednarz calls for the creation of "Energy & Health Centers" to address effects of peak oil on public health and health care (California Politics Today #608/Etopia Medical News #130)

7-27-06: Dr. Charles Grob at UCLA-Harbor Medical Center talks about his research with psilocybin for "existential anxiety" in seriously-ill cancer patients (California Politics Today #607/Etopia Medical News #129)

7-23-06: City of Santa Monica votes 5-1 to go smokefree (California Politics Today™ #606)

7-25-06: As California swelters and the power grid strains to keep residents and businesses cool, Ross Gelbspan explains global warming and ways out in a Year 2000 Book Radio interview (California Politics Today #605/ Solar World #14)

7-23-06: "Yes on Proposition 87" chief scientist and spokesperson Dr. Shelley Luce makes the case for passing the California "Clean Energy Initiative" on the "Yes on 87 Channel" (California Politics Today™ #604)

7-23-06: Scott Macdonald, spokesperson for "No on 87—The $4 billion Oil Tax," makes the case against Proposition 87 on the "No on 87 Channel" (California Politics Today™ #603)

7-22-06: Scott Macdonald, spokesperson for "No on 87—The $4 billion Oil Tax," makes the case against Proposition 87 (California Politics Today™ #602)

7-21-06: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "missed an opportunity to bring the CIRM a little more fully under state control," according to Center for Genetics and Society Project Director for Biotechnology Accountability Jesse Reynolds (California Politics Today™ #601)

7-21-06: "Looney Tunes™" smokefree proposal for Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade from 2004 will be considered on July 25, 2006, by the Santa Monica City Council (California Politics Today™ #600)

7-21-06: "Peak Oil" and should gas prices be higher? (California Politics Today™ #599)

7-20-06: Brad Pitt-supported and Mikhail Gorbachev-inspired Global Green USA works on "green building" for cities and schools, climate change and energy, water, weapons of mass destruction, and recycling, and operates a "Green Building Resource Center" (California Politics Today #598/ Solar World #13)

7-20-06: Dr. Rick Haupt at Merck talks about Gardasil®, a safe and effective vaccine against genital warts and cervical cancer caused by HPV, the human papillomavirus (California Politics Today #597/Etopia Medical News #128)

7-18-06: A difference of opinion regarding Proposition 87's "pass-through" prohibition (California Politics Today™ #596)

7-18-06: "Yes on Proposition 87" chief scientist and spokesperson Dr. Shelley Luce makes the case for passing the California "Clean Energy Initiative" (California Politics Today™ #595)

7-18-06: Opponents of "stage 2" jet aircraft at Van Nuys Airport make the case for phasing out take-offs and landings of these planes in the San Fernando Valley (California Politics Today™ #594)

7-13-06: New "Photonics Channel" covers the emerging science, engineering, and applications of light-based communications (California Politics Today™ #593)

7-13-06: Valerie Beck at California Public Utilities Commission talks about the California Solar Initiative, designed to "mainstream" solar energy and undermine "petro-pirates" (California Politics Today #592/ Solar World #11)

7-11-06: Michael Sohigian, attorney for plaintiff Melinda Birke, explains her side of Birke v. Oakwood Garden Apartments, the smokefree apartment complex common areas case (California Politics Today™ #591)

7-10-06: California Apartment Association spokesperson Debra Carlton explains the CAA's views on making apartment complexes smokefree, as called for in Birke v. Oakwood Garden Apartments (California Politics Today™ #590)

7-8-06: University of California counsel/spokesperson says that UC-ICOC conflict of interest issue has already been decided; reveals plan by California Attorney General Lockyer to block new Sacramento-based anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court on Monday (California Politics Today™ #589)

7-7-06: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil® will be available from, but not required by, Los Angeles Unified School District (California Politics Today™ #588)

7-6-06: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil® on track for inclusion in Vaccine for Children (VFC) program; CDC spokesperson sees no "wave of public sentiment" against this breakthrough treatment for the prevention of cervical cancer (California Politics Today #587/Etopia Medical News #127)

6-29-06: California Cable and Telecommunications Association President Dennis Mangers discusses how incumbent cable franchisees will be able to abrogate their existing franchise contracts and "opt-in" to new state franchising rules under AB 2987; doesn't expect cable-telco price wars; says that all existing municipal cable franchises will be replaced with state cable franchises as they expire (California Politics Today™ #586)

6-29-06: Spokesperson for Californians for Technology and Video Choice reports on today's approval of AB 2987, California's "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006," by the California Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications chaired by State Senator Martha Escutia (California Politics Today™ #585)

6-27-06: Spokesperson for California State Controller Steve Westly denies any conflict-of-interest or illegality in Controller's transmission of $6.7 million to the University of California under terms of Proposition 71 following approval of these funds by stem cell board ICOC with nine UC-affiliated members (California Politics Today™ #584)

6-27-06: Caltech Professor and Vice Provost David Goodstein is not optimistic about breaking the global addiction to oil; calls for leadership, use of multiple adaptive strategies (California Politics Today™ #583)

6-26-06: They're baaaaaaaaack--National Tax Limitation Foundation and California Family Bioethics Council file suit against California State Controller Steve Westly and University of California President Robert C. Dynes to block transfer of $6.7 million in Proposition 71 embryonic stem cell research funding, on grounds of conflict of interest (California Politics Today™ #582)

6-26-06: Austin, Texas, emerges as a leader in the movement for PHEVs and the distributed generation of electricity to run them (California Politics Today™ #581/ Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle World #8)

6-26-06: Toyota spokesperson says the company is now "really and truly" moving towards the development of plug-in hybrid vehicles (California Politics Today™ #580/ Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle World #7)

6-19-06: City of West Hollywood asks Los Angeles Country Sheriff's Office to de-prioritize enforcement of marijuana possession and use laws in the territory within its jurisdiction (California Politics Today™ #579)

6-16-06: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) powered by solar-generated electricity would power clean, fast transportation while preserving the environment and reducing U.S. dependency on foreign oil (California Politics Today™ #578)

6-7-06: H.R. 5252, the "Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006" (COPE), would authorize national cable franchising; public access producers protest (California Politics Today™ #577)

6-6-06: Angelides slightly ahead, Westly hopeful, as Rob Reiner's "Preschool for All" initiative, Proposition 82, loses 3-2, along with anti-war Democrats Winograd and Coleman; Padilla ahead of Montanez in State Senate race; Lloyd Levine unanimously re-nominated for 40th A.D. Assembly seat; California State Controller candidate Joe Dunn lagging behind John Chiang (California Politics Today™ #576)

6-2-06: inclue! CEO Nick Gogerty explains how "one click delivers it all" (California Politics Today™ #575)

6-2-06: Click.TV offers annotatable videos (California Politics Today™ #574)

6-1-06: AB2987, the "Digital Infrastructure and Cable Competition Act of 2006," unanimously passes California State Assembly on 77-0 vote; co-author Assemblymember Lloyd Levine, Verizon Pacific Region President Tim McCallion, and California Cable and Telecommunications President Dennis Mangers comment (California Politics Today™ #573)

5-27-06: Pioneering start-up Online Broadcasting Service (OBS) leads the way towards "a la carte" video programming and the possible disintegration through disintermediation of the existing video/television distribution paradigm (California Politics Today™ #572)

5-26-06: Eric Brown, Senior Vice President, Western Division, Charter Communications, and Chairman of the Board of the California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA), talks about AB2987, the "Digital Infrastructure and Cable Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #571)

5-26-06: Lloyd Levine, Chair of the California Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee and co-author, with California Assembly Speaker Fabián Núñez, of AB2987, talks about the "Digital Infrastructure and Cable Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #570)

5-25-06: Kurt Schwenk, General Manager, Digital Cinema Division, NEC Solutions (America), talks about starring role for NEC's STARUS™ NC2500S DLP Cinema® projector at outdoor premiere of Disney's "Cars," the first multi-screen digital cinema premiere ever and the largest digital cinema display to date (California Politics Today™ #569)

5-25-06: Pro-AB2987 Californians for Technology & Video Choice hold a press conference at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel near Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood to express support for the "Digital Infrastructure and Cable Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #568)

5-24-06: Los Angeles City Councilmember Alex Padilla makes the case for electing him to the California State Senate on June 6th (California Politics Today™ #567)

5-23-06: Internet giant Google follows the lead of pioneering start-up Online Broadcasting Service (OBS) in offering "opt-in" video ads (California Politics Today™ #566)

5-22-06: Internet pioneer and UCLA Computer Science Professor Leonard Kleinrock recounts how he developed packet-switching theory, sent the first message over the ARPANET/Internet, and discusses the present and future of the Net (California Politics Today™ #565)

5-20-06: Online Broadcasting Service (OBS), using Brightcove Players on California Politics Today, OBS News, and its flagship Online Broadcasting Service, offers a variety of broadcast-quality, broadband-based, television-like videos about politics, entertainment, medicine, the Internet, and more (California Politics Today™ #564)

5-20-06: California State Assemblymember Cindy Montanez (D-39th) makes the case for electing her to the California State Senate on June 6th (California Politics Today™ #563)

5-19-06: California Assemblymember Paul Koretz talks about California Assembly Joint Resolution 39 (AJR 39), which calls for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney (California Politics Today™ #562)

5-19-06: Verizon Pacific Region President Tim McCallion urges support for AB 2987, California's "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006," at a demonstration of the FiOS platform that Verizon wants to build out under the terms of this legislation (California Politics Today™ #561)

5-18-06: Marcy Winograd, a "rounded character" and a "dream anti-war candidate" takes her Congressional challenge to "worse-than-Lieberman-and-worse-than-Feinstein" and "Bush" Democrat incumbent Congressmember Jane Harman to Manhattan Beach Marriott in California's 36th Congressional District (California Politics Today™ #560)

5-17-06: Anti-Iraq War candidate Charles Coleman challenges incumbent Congressmember Howard Berman in California's 28th Congressional District (California Politics Today™ #559)

5-15-06: Federal Building Coalition seeks to prevent use of Westside land deeded for the care of U.S. war veterans for other purposes and to control development in an already-traffic-saturated area of Los Angeles (California Politics Today™ #558)

5-14-06: Code Pink demonstration in Beverly Hills calls attention to U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's position on the Iraq War (California Politics Today™ #557)

5-13-06: Online Broadcasting Service (OBS), using Brightcove Players, seriously reduces the dependence of political candidates on big campaign contributors in order to directly and effectively convey their messages to voters (California Politics Today™ #556)

5-13-06: California State Senator Joe Dunn makes the case for his election to the post of California State Controller (California Politics Today™ #555)

5-13-06: Anti-Iraq War candidate Marcy Winograd challenges incumbent Congressmember Jane Harman in California's 36th Congressional District (California Politics Today™ #554)

5-11-06: 42nd Assembly District candidates square off at St. Timothy's Roman Catholic Church, seeking votes at a meeting of the Tract 7260 Homeowners Association (California Politics Today™ #553)

5-11-06: Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavky talks about his goals and accomplishments in a syndicatable video player as he runs for re-election (California Politics Today™ #552)

4-26-06: Congressman Maurice Hinchey supports states' right to legalize medical marijuana, despite recent FDA claims regarding marijuana's lack of medical usefulness, and discusses possible impeachment of President Bush following a Democratic take-over of the House of Representatives in November, 2006 (California Politics Today™ #551)

4-25-06: No stem cell bond sales until Spring, 2007; California gubernatorial candidates Angelides and Westly laud Sabraw ruling in Proposition 71 case, holding out hope and attacking anti-Proposition 71 plaintiffs, respectively (California Politics Today™ #550)

4-24-06: After it passes the California Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee on a 10-0 vote, Verizon Pacific Region President Tim McCallion is even more optimistic than previously that AB 2987, California's "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006" will become law this year (California Politics Today™ #549)

4-24-06: California Cable and Telecommunications Association Director of Governmental Affairs Marc Burgat talks about today's California Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee vote to approve AB 2987, the "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #548)

4-24-06: Spokesperson for California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez updates the AB 2987 story (California Politics Today™ #547)

4-24-06: Disappointed, but not surprised, Dana Cody, anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit attorney, says she'll appeal last week's Alameda County Superior Court decision upholding the constitutionality of Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #546)

4-22-06: Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Lewman Sabraw decides Proposition 71 stem cell lawsuit in favor of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, upholding its constitutionality (California Politics Today™ #545)

4-22-06: Code Pink protesters in Beverly Hills highlight Hillary Clinton's support for the Iraq War, calling her "a wolf in sheep's clothing" and a "warmonger" (California Politics Today™ #544)

4-21-06: Monterey County, California, Board of Supervisors Chair Jerry Smith asks California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez to "oppose provisions of [AB 2987] that would remove the requirement for wired video providers to obtain franchises from local governments" (California Politics Today™ #543)

4-21-06: California Cable and Telecommunications Association Director of Governmental Affairs Marc Burgat updates developments regarding AB 2987, the "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #542)

4-21-06: Hillary Clinton's supporters to be targeted on her Iraq War stance by Code Pink demonstrators outside Beverly Hills home as she and former President Clinton attend $1,000-a-plate "dessert fundraiser" among "Hollywood liberals" (California Politics Today™ #541)

4-20-06: Online Broadcasting Service™ (OBS) now available on Google Video, Revver, and MySpace (California Politics Today™ #540)

4-20-06: National Taxpayers Union spokesperson Pete Sepp makes the case for lower taxes, less regulation, and the passage of AB2987, the "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #539)

4-17-06: California Congresswoman Jane Harman builds SecureUS PAC to help elect "tough and smart" Democrats to Congress (California Politics Today™ #538)

4-17-06: Google Video lets Online Broadcasting Service (OBS) compete with Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) by helping OBS publish "all the video that's fit to broadcast" about "California Politics Today" (California Politics Today™ #537)

4-15-06: SightSpeed videoconferencing software enables a range of remotely-recorded video interviews about remote language instruction, Internet deployment, regulation, and censorship, "Preschool for All," bi-polar disorder, medical robots for remote consultation, and, of course, about the technology of remotely-recorded video interviews (California Politics Today™ #536)

4-15-06: Lisa Nieboer, Director, BeGlobal Language School, talks about remote, worldwide language instruction on OBS (Online Broadcasting Service™) (California Politics Today™ #535)

4-14-06: Marc Strassman uses OBS (Online Broadcasting Service), a 21st century platform, to reprise turn-of-the-century digital democracy concepts such as universal, ubiquitous, instantaneous, and always-on remote Internet voting (California Politics Today™ #534)

4-14-06: California gubernatorial candidate and State Controller Steve Westly's staffers provide details of how "his crackdown on corporate tax cheats brought in billions" (California Politics Today™ #533)

4-14-06: OBS (Online Broadcasting Service) presents video interviews about bi-polar disorder and medical robots (California Politics Today™ #532)

4-13-06: Comcast stalls municipal cable franchise negotiations in Northern California county, hoping to benefit from a state-issued franchise under AB2987, using a loophole reported on in two recent California Politics Today articles (California Politics Today™ #531)

4-12-06: Dennis Mangers, President of the California Cable & Telecommunications Association, updates his comments about AB 2987, the "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #530)

4-12-06: No comment from Time Warner or the City of Los Angeles, but AB 2987 co-author's consultant confirms that "when the existing franchise expires, they [incumbent cable providers] can apply for a state-issued franchise" (California Politics Today™ #529)

4-12-06: Verizon Pacific Region President Tim McCallion makes the case for AB 2987, California's "Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #528)

4-9-06: Los Angeles Times plays catch-up with Etopia News on "net neutrality" (California Politics Today™ #527)

4-9-06: Time Warner Cable, soon-to-be Los Angeles' monopoly incumbent cable provider, could benefit from AB 2987, the state-franchising of cable systems reform bill strongly opposed by the cable industry in California (California Politics Today™ #526)

4-6-06: Dennis Mangers, President of the California Cable & Telecommunications Association, offers his views on video franchising reform in California (California Politics Today™ #525)

4-6-06: Bill Hamm, former California Legislative Analyst, analyzes Proposition 82 (California Politics Today™ #524)

4-6-06: Fabian Núñez, Lloyd Levine, announce plan for statewide cable franchises in California (California Politics Today™ #523)

4-6-06: Ken McNeely, President, AT&T California, says he sees using his company's new data pipes as one way to help alleviate traffic congestion in California (California Politics Today™ #522)

4-6-06: Ken McNeely, President, AT&T California, says three times that he knows of no plans to violate "net neutrality" in AT&T's California data network (California Politics Today™ #521)

4-4-06: Ken McNeely, President, AT&T California, talks about franchise reform in California (California Politics Today™ #520)

4-3-06: Creation of a "State of California Bio-tech Corporation" (SCBC) would obviate the need for cooperation with bio-tech firms unwilling to accept Proposition 71 money with strings attached (California Politics Today™ #519)

4-3-06: John Simpson at FTCR wants ICOC to ensure a return to California taxpayers and consumers from $6 billion in stem cell research money (California Politics Today™ #518)

3-28-06: Arnold Schwarzenegger supports Proposition 71, but can't or won't say what authority he has as governor to manage or control the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee that it set up (California Politics Today™ #517) (shorter version)

3-28-06: Arnold Schwarzenegger supports Proposition 71, but can't or won't say what authority he has as governor to manage or control the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee that it set up (California Politics Today™ #516)

3-26-06: University of California, San Diego, student newspaper, says of UCSD Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Edward W. Holmes' membership on the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee: "If this isn’t a conflict of interest, it’s hard to imagine what would be" (California Politics Today™ #515)

2-25-06: Dave and Bekah Mays make fun of Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle," appearing on Google Video, but not yet on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"; is this fair use for purposes of parody, or copyright infringement? (California Politics Today #514/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #31)

3-23-06: Spokesperson for California Treasurer Phil Angelides, two days after Proposition 71 passed in 2004, prophetically says that "it'll take a while before these bonds ever get to market" and that the ICOC will set its own conflict of interest rules (California Politics Today™ #513)

3-23-06: Deborah Ortiz, California State Senator, wants the court to uphold the constitutionality of Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #512)

3-22-06: Brilliant pre-Proposition 71 election article in the New Yorker highlights the "independence" of the "Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee," which now claims to be, as constitutionally required, "under the exclusive management and control" of the State of California (California Politics Today™ #511)

3-20-06: Russell Korobkin, professor of law at UCLA, elaborates on his recent "The stem cell initiative, sabotaged"/"An abusive stem-cell lawsuit" op-ed pieces in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and addresses the question of how an "Independent" Citizens' Oversight Committee can be under the "exclusive management and control" of the State of California (California Politics Today™ #510)

3-18-06: Faced with unexpected legal insurgency, and several other unresolved issues, California's Proposition 71 may devolve into "stem cell civil war" (California Politics Today™ #509)

3-17-06: Dana Cody, anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit attorney, expects to lose, plans to appeal (California Politics Today™ #508)

3-16-06: California's Attorney General and opponents of ICOC/CIRM stem cell research effort exchange briefs in Alameda County Superior Court, while further lengthy appeals loom (California Politics Today™ #507)

3-9-06: Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and CEO, talks about the Veoh personal television station system (California Politics Today #506/ Entertainment Technology World #43)

2-25-06: Google Video provides a platform for Marc Strassman to advocate for digital democracy (California Politics Today™ #505)

3-4-06: Google Video web site provides convenient showcase for popular Etopia Media News Networks and Etopia Media Pictures videos (California Politics Today #504/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #28)

2-25-06: Marc Strassman advocates for "digital democracy" (California Politics Today™ #503)

2-19-06: Actress Rachel McAdams, Academy officials, and Russian and American cinema technologists comment at AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards in Beverly Hills (California Politics Today #502/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #27)

2-16-06: Spokesperson at British Embassy in Washington, D.C., says that "it would be for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether to bring a prosecution or not" against V for Vendetta on charges of "glorification of terrorism" (California Politics Today #501/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #26)

2-15-06: California State Senator Sheila Kuehl talks about her proposal for a "single-payer" health insurance system for all California residents (California Politics Today™ #500)

2-13-06: California Sierra Club spokesperson Eric Antebi talks about that group's opposition to White House plan to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of National Forest in California (California Politics Today™ #499)

1-30-06: California Assemblymember Loni Hancock talks about AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006,"'s passage by the California State Assembly (California Politics Today™ #498)

1-23-06: Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC) meets to consider draft intellectual property policy for non-profit grantees of California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) (California Politics Today™ #497)

1-19-06: California Assemblymember Joseph Canciamilla supports AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006," as a first step toward improving the electoral landscape (California Politics Today™ #496)

1-19-06: AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006," passes the California Assembly Appropriation Committee, 13-5, in historic progress for Clean Money/Clean Elections (California Politics Today™ #495)

1-18-06: Craig Dunkerley, Southbay Area Coordinator, California Clean Money Campaign, offers a "Rebuttal to Political Consultant Allan Hoffenblum Re: AB 583" (California Politics Today™ #494)

1-17-06: Political consultant Allan Hoffenblum talks about AB 583 and other campaign finance issues, calls for "full disclosure" rather than public financing of election campaigns (California Politics Today™ #493)

1-13-06: Armando Viramontes, Legislative Assistant to AB 583 author Assemblymember Loni Hancock, talks in detail about provisions and prospects of the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #492)

1-12-06: California Assemblymember and Appropriations Committee Chair Judy Chu previews committee consideration of AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #491)

1-10-06: "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006," AB 583, passes 4-3 in crucial Assembly Elections Committee vote (California Politics Today™ #490)

1-9-06: California Clean Money Campaign Communications Director Eric Tang updates the AB 583 story, urges supporters to contact swing vote Assembly Elections Committee Chair Tom Umberg (California Politics Today™ #489)

1-7-06: San Fernando Valley citizens ask their California legislators to support Assemblymember Loni Hancock's Clean Money bill, AB 583 (California Politics Today™ #488)

1-6-06: California Assemblymember Loni Hancock talks about AB 583, the "California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act of 2006" (California Politics Today™ #487)

12-21-05: California Clean Money Campaign tries to put the "demos" back in "democracy" (California Politics Today™ #486)

12-15-05: Plaintiffs' attorney Dana Cody discusses setting of February 27, 2006, date for Proposition 71 constitutionality trial (California Politics Today™ #485)

12-14-05: Dr. Evan Snyder, Director of Stem Cell Research at the Burnham Institute, says that the controversy swirling around the South Korean lab of Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk "slows us up" and that the race to be the first to successfully produce customized human stem cells may be on again (California Politics Today™ #484)

12-14-05: Los Angeles City Councilmember Wendy Greuel talks about "Clean Money/Clean Elections" for the second-largest city in the U.S. (California Politics Today™ #483)

12-13-05: Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl talks about "Clean Money/Clean Elections" for the second-largest city in the U.S. (California Politics Today™ #482)

12-9-05: State of California files "Report of Proposed Debt Issuance" for between $18 million and $55 million in "Stem Cell Research & Cures Bond Anticipation Notes"; spokesperson for California State Treasurer Phil Angelides says that "CIRM intends to use the BAN proceeds to fund training grants" only (California Politics Today™ #481)

12-1-05: California Assemblymember Hector De La Torre, author of AB 903, seeks "level-playing field" to benefit cities and customers, while waiting on FCC and Congress, and Verizon and AT&T, to make their next moves (California Politics Today™ #480)

11-30-05: Alameda County Superior Court ruling denying all parties' motions and moving to trial in Proposition 71 case is called "a huge victory" by Dana Cody, anti-Proposition 71 attorney, and "very important progress for the CIRM" by James Harrison, counsel for the CIRM (California Politics Today™ #479)

11-25-05: Dr. Hwang resigns top stem cell job in South Korea after lying about where he got his eggs; head of California's ICOC still in office after blatantly lying about pre-election claims (California Politics Today™ #478)

11-23-05: Bob Klein responds to yesterday's question about the possible "overselling" of Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #477)

11-22-05: ICOC's IP Task Force Subcommittee meets at Stanford and decides on principles of interim intellectual property policy (California Politics Today™ #476)

11-18-05: Stem Cell Wars, Volume 2, Chapter 2: Human Egg Farming (California Politics Today™ #475)

11-19-05: Eric Frankel, President, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution (WBDCD), talks about the In2TV roll-out of legacy television content repurposed for the Internet on AOL (California Politics Today #474/ Entertainment Technology World #37)

11-18-05: California Assemblymember Paul Koretz talks about anti-smoking legislation in California (California Politics Today™ #473)

11-18-05: Brian Perry, Chief Legislative Deputy to Los Angeles City Councilmember Dennis Zine, talks about LA Rx drug discount program (California Politics Today™ #472)

11-17-05: Featured in this month's Vanity Fair, Arianna Huffington and John-Roger discuss their then most-recent books as of April, 1999, and John-Roger calls Arianna "very widely-read [and] very intelligent" (California Politics Today™ #471)

11-17-05: Proposition 71 stem cell quagmire deepens as "egg recruitment" and "cellular vampirism" issues receive heightened scrutiny (California Politics Today™ #470)

11-17-05: Attorneys from both sides talk about today's hearing on Proposition 71's constitutionality at the Hayward Hall of Justice in Alameda County Superior Court (California Politics Today™ #469)

11-16-05: Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely answers some questions about the anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit now pending in Alameda County Superior Court (California Politics Today™ #468)

11-15-05: No ruling on the merits yet, as Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Lewman Sabraw orders contending parties in anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit to appear in her court on Thursday, November 17, 2005, prepared to address some complex legal issues (California Politics Today™ #467)

11-15-05: Oocytes hit the fan as Schatten ends cooperation with Hwang over alleged unethical "egg recruitment" for cloning research (California Politics Today #466/Etopia Media Medical News Network #119)

11-14-05: Saying she's neither clairvoyant nor arrogant enough to predict tomorrow's tentative ruling in her client's anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit, plaintiffs' attorney Dana Cody says there's a 90% chance of an appeal if her side loses (California Politics Today™ #465)

11-11-05: Big surprise! Giant pharmaceutical company sells allegedly dangerous drug (Ortho Evra®), allegedly ignores risks, women die, belated warning issued. Everyone is "shocked, shocked" (California Politics Today #464/Etopia Media Medical News Network #116)

11-10-05: Calling plaintiffs' arguments "extremely weak," Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely predicts victory for California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) after November 17th hearing (California Politics Today™ #463)

11-9-05: Los Angeles County Public Health Director Jonathan Fielding talks about avian influenza ("bird flu") preparedness in the largest county in the U.S. (California Politics Today #462/Etopia Media Medical News Network #115)

11-9-05: Samsung announces convergent products and strategy, including plans to roll out WiBro in 84 Korean cities in the first half of 2006, offering throughput speeds of up to 30 Mbps (California Politics Today #461/ Technology Products World #8)

11-9-05: Attorney General Bill Lockyer asks the court to throw out the "meritless" consolidated reverse invalidation action against Proposition 71 and its offspring, while reminding the court that "the ICOC must insure that the state benefits from patents, royalties and licenses that result from state-financed research" (sort of) (California Politics Today™ #460)

11-7-05: California Treasurer Phil Angelides, in letter to CIRM President, distances himself from Proposition 71 "proponents" and proposes resolving the "tax-exempt bonds vs. returned royalties" problem by selling taxable bonds, which he says may be the "lowest-cost choice" (California Politics Today™ #459)

11-7-05: Robert Feyer, Chief Bond Counsel for the State of California, says he had no contact with State Controller Steve Westly about stem cell financing prior to the November 2, 2004, election; declines any further comment on questions about his conversations with State Treasurer Phil Angelides on this subject (California Politics Today™ #458)

11-5-05: Chiron Corporation fouls up multiple times, is rewarded with key role in global response to possible H5N1 bird flu pandemic, and cashes out, while co-founder repeats discredited Proposition 71 economic promises at legislative hearing (California Politics Today #457/Etopia Media Medical News Network #111)

11-4-05 Tracy Westen, Vice-Chairman and CEO of Center for Governmental Studies (CGS), talks about HealthVote.org, Video Voter, and the possible impact of new technology on the democratic process (California Politics Today™ #456)

11-4-05: John Nicoletti, Public Information Officer for the City of Anaheim, talks about that city's exclusive 20-year municipal broadband wireless deployment agreement with EarthLink (California Politics Today #455/Broadband Wireless Access World #62)

10-31-05: Stem Cell Wars, Volume 2, Chapter 1 (California Politics Today™ #454)

10-31-05: California Assemblymember Dave Jones, Chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee and Co-Chair of the "Joint Information Hearing" on the implementation of Proposition 71, talks about today's hearing (California Politics Today™ #453)

10-31-05: "Yes on 78/No on 79" can't help making Freudian slips acknowledging the truth behind their PhRMA-funded campaign (California Politics Today™ #452)

10-31-05: Stanford University says it "is aware of the [CALEA] issue and is researching the impact and appropriate response" (California Politics Today #451/ CALEA World #2

10-30-05: October 25th Chronicle article answers September 19th California Politics Today question about what California State Treasurer Phil Angelides knew about the impossibility of the State of California getting royalty revenues from patents generated with tax-exempt stem cell bond money, and when he knew it (California Politics Today™ #450)

10-29-05: Etopia Media News Networks covers some repeated instances of recent "scam/cover-up/scandal" cycles (California Politics Today™ #449)

10-28-05: PhRMA companies spend some of their $80 million war chest on ads declared "misleading" by non-partisan election watchdog HealthVote.org, while their spokesperson accidentally admits the truth (California Politics Today™ #448)

10-28-05: RFID industry spokesperson Tim Heffernan defends RFID against California State Senator Joe Simitian's SB 768 3-year driver's license RFID moratorium legislation (California Politics Today™ #447)

10-27-05: "Halloween Hearing" in San Francisco on October 31, 2005 will feature testimony about scary Proposition 71 intellectual property (IP) issues (California Politics Today™ #446)

10-26-05: Anna Meyer, Project Manager at Center for Governmental Studies' HealthVote.org, talks about Propositions 73, 78, and 79, on November 8, 2005, California Statewide Special Election ballot (California Politics Today™ #445)

10-23-05: A compilation of Etopia Media News Networks articles about Propositions 78 and 79, and related matters (California Politics Today™ #444)

10-22-05: Dean Fryer, Director of Communications, California Department of Industrial Relations and CAL/OSHA, talks about bi-lingual labor inspectors, a crucial link in California's economic health (California Politics Today™ #443)

10-17-05: "e-stonia" conducts first national Internet election (California Politics Today #442/Etopia Media Voting News #23)

10-5-05: California State Senator Tom McClintock talks about propositions on the November 8, 2005, California Statewide Special Election ballot (California Politics Today™ #441)

10-4-05: ICOC Chair Robert Klein urges efforts to defeat Senator Brownback's anti-chimera bill, while Stanford OKs mouse/human chimera along with plans for "immediately killing any that display human-like behavior" (California Politics Today™ #440)

10-1-05: CyberCIRM launched with webcast of its first scientific meeting; moderator calls stem cell research "a war on disease and it's also a war, I think, on ignorance and anti-science" (California Politics Today™ #439)

9-29-05: The most comprehensive conference ever on the future of stem cell therapeutics is scheduled for October 1-2, 2005, at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco and will be webcast (California Politics Today™ #438)

9-28-05: Geoff Joyce, senior economist at RAND Corporation, says of bio-medical breakthroughs, including ones funded by Proposition 71, "generally…many of these technologies are wonderful but they are not cost-reducing." (California Politics Today™ #437)

9-26-05: Susan Clark, project director for the Easy Voter Guide, talks about this electoral aid (California Politics Today™ #436)

9-21-05: Dana Cody, attorney for People's Advocate, reports on court schedule for consideration of the "reverse validation action" lawsuit against Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (California Politics Today™ #435)

9-20-05: Jesse Reynolds, program director at Center for Genetics and Society, comments on a variety of stem cell-related issues (California Politics Today™ #434)

9-20-05: California State Treasurer Phil Angelides' Director of Communications says there was no communication between state bond counsel and his office "prior to the election" (California Politics Today™ #433)

9-19-05: California taxpayers unlikely to see any cash return on their $6 billion investment in stem cell research under Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #432)

9-19-05: Betsy Rosenfeld at CGS talks about Video Voter (California Politics Today™ #431)

9-16-05: California Assembly Select Committee on Biotechnology Chair Gene Mullin talks about who should profit from California's investment in embryonic stem cell research (California Politics Today™ #430)

9-16-05: A collection of avian influenza and Tamiflu® articles from 2004 and early 2005 from the Etopia Media Medical News Network web site is published on the occasion of ABC News and President Bush sounding an alarm about avian flu in mid-September, 2005 (California Politics Today™ #429)

9-14-05: Bruce Conklin, associate investigator at the Gladstone Institute, talks about stem cell exhibit at the Exploritorium and CIRM stem cell research training grants (California Politics Today™ #428)

9-13-05: No answers yet about whether Treasurer Phil Angelides or Controller Steve Westly knew about "tax-exempt bonds vs. revenues for California" contradiction during their campaign to pass Proposition 71 on these conflicting bases (California Politics Today™ #427)

9-13-05: Stanford's "call for applications from potential trainees" on hold; Childrens Hospital Los Angeles preparing lecture course for stem cell trainees (California Politics Today™ #426)

9-11-05: Names of previously-anonymous recipients of non-existent embryonic stem cell grants revealed; grantees go along with the gag, hoping for more real money later (California Politics Today™ #425)

9-10-05: Proposition 71 stem cell research funding process descends into farce as conflicted ICOC panel members vote on unfunded grants for anonymous recipients (California Politics Today™ #424)

9-10-05: California State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) talks about the future of SB 768, formerly SB 682, the RFID-on-mass-documents-moratorium bill (California Politics Today™ #423)

9-10-05: Requiem for "1 million solar roofs" plan, crescendo for "California Electric Sunshine Initiative" (California Politics Today™ #422/ Solar World #9)

9-8-05: Robert Liden, EVP and General Manager at Stirling Energy Systems, talks about SES deal with SDG&E and other solar electricity issues (California Politics Today™ #421/ Solar World #8)

9-5-05: A second look at a Stanford professor's study touting both "tax-free, general obligation state bonds" and "state royalty revenues of from $537 million to $1.1 billion" as reasons to vote for Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #420)

9-4-05: Robert Klein, Chair of the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) created by Proposition 71 to spend $3/6 billion in California taxpayers' money on embryonic stem cell research, now and then (California Politics Today™ #419)

9-4-05: Stuart Leavenworth, editorialist at the Sacramento Bee, calls for openness in stem cell research funding process (California Politics Today™ #417)

9-3-05: Robert Feyer, lead bond counsel for the State of California, explains the intricacies of the stem cell bond situation (California Politics Today™ #416)

9-1-05: Jerry Flanagan, consumer advocate at Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, talks about LA Rx, Propositions 78 and 79, and political corruption in Sacramento (California Politics Today™ #415)

8-31-05: Denise Davis, spokesperson for Yes on 78/No on 79, inadvertently admits publicly that "78 is a false promise" (California Politics Today™ #414)

8-30-05: hESC "reprogramming" breakthrough at Harvard Medical School; alleged special pleading at the Washington Post; consolidated validation action venue is appealed; ICOC to consider three lawsuits in "closed session" (California Politics Today™ #413)

8-30-05: California Family Bioethics Council seeks a change of venue for consolidated Proposition 71 stem cell research "reverse validation action" from Alameda to Sacramento County (California Politics Today™ #412)

8-30-05: Denise Davis, spokesperson for Yes on 78/No on 79, calls for passage of Proposition 78 and the defeat of Proposition 79 (California Politics Today™ #411)

8-28-05: Stem Cell Wars, Volume 1 (California Politics Today™ #410)

8-26-05: No filings yet from ICOC for any bond, or bond anticipation note, sales (California Politics Today™ #409)

8-25-05: ICOC Chair Robert Klein offers incomplete and misleading comments about human cloning, stem cell research, and bond anticipation notes (California Politics Today™ #408)

8-20-05: South Koreans and associates move ahead on hESC research and commercialization, while U.S. efforts and funding are tied up by California litigation and Congressional vacations (California Politics Today™ #407)

8-17-05: Ren Benjamin, stem cell stock analyst, talks about bio-medical, financial, and political aspects of investing in stem cell stocks (California Politics Today™ #406)

8-16-05: California takes the lead on prescription drugs, RFID on driver's licenses, and celebrity sex scandals (California Politics Today™ #405)

8-16-05: Anthony Wright, Executive Director of Health Access California, urges "Yes on Proposition 79/No on Proposition 78" (California Politics Today™ #404)

8-15-05: Nicole Ozer, Northern California ACLU Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, talks about SB 682, the RFID bill (California Politics Today™ #403)

8-14-05: Can Governor Schwarzenegger survive yet another tabloid-related scandal stemming from his original cover-up deal with David Pecker and American Media, Inc.? (California Politics Today™ #402)

8-13-05: Governor Schwarzenegger is immune from prosecution for alleged statutory rape violation due to three-year statute of limitations covering alleged 1975 crime; Lt. Governor Bustamante is next in line should he resign or be impeached (California Politics Today™ #401)

8-9-05: Dana Cody comments on the consolidated law suit against Proposition 71's off-spring (California Politics Today™ #400)

8-3-05: California State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) and AeA/High-Tech Trust Coalition spokesperson Roxanne Gould discuss SB 682 (California Politics Today™ #399)

8-3-05: Motion to consolidate two stem cell cases is granted (California Politics Today™ #398)

8-3-05: Dana Cody updates stem cell lawsuit consolidation proceedings story; calls ICOC Chair Robert Klein "a religious bigot"; says her arguments are constitutionally, not religiously, based (California Politics Today™ #397)

8-1-05: California State Treasurer Phil Angelides' press secretary discusses "bridge funding" of embryonic stem cell research in California (California Politics Today™ #396)

7-30-05: Stem cell chief Robert Klein II hopes to fund first grants in September using a "bridge financing approach"; denounces Proposition 71 opponents' "constitutional arguments as a front for their opposition" (California Politics Today™ #395)

7-29-05: Roxanne Gould, High-Tech Trust Coalition spokesperson, makes the case against SB 682 (California Politics Today™ #394)

7-28-05: Nevada Senator Ensign proposes telecom reform plan including provisions that would negate the "Community Broadband Act of 2005" proposed by Senators Lautenberg and McCain (California Politics Today #393/American Politics Today #38)

7-25-05: California State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) updates SB 682 developments, warns of "surveillance by skimming" dangers, says he wants more discussion (California Politics Today™ #392)

7-23-05: California resumes medical marijuana ID card trial (California Politics Today™ #391)

7-21-05: Spokesperson for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and re-districting advocate Ted Costa talk about the court decision to remove Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-districting plan, Proposition 77, from the November, 2005, ballot (California Politics Today™ #390)

7-21-05: California Attorney General seeks to consolidate the lawsuits that "have clouded the marketability" of Proposition 71 bonds to facilitate "a judicial resolution as quickly as possible so that the voters' will can be enforced once and for all" (California Politics Today™ #389)

7-19-05: Bardach expose gains traction while Democrats threaten complaint and hearings in "Consultinatorgate" (California Politics Today™ #388)

7-16-05: Ethical and legal questions remain as Schwarzenegger sends back the money, while Propositionista Ted Costa tries to have it both ways (California Politics Today™ #387)

7-15-05: California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and the State Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) "have no comment" on the specifics of conflict-of-interest investigations involving Governor Schwarzenegger, but the FPPC does have a general statement about such cases (California Politics Today™ #386)

7-15-05: Investigative reporter who broke the story about Governor Schwarzenegger and his tabloid deal says he'll need to cut his ties with American Media, Inc., and may face a conflict-of-interest investigation (California Politics Today™ #385)

7-14-05: Today's Los Angeles Times expose of Governor Schwarzenegger's alleged tabloid-based conflict of interest recalls August 27, 2004, California Politics Today interview with investigative reporter Ann Louise Bardach detailing similar allegations (California Politics Today™ #384)

7-14-05: California Family Bioethics Council files "reverse validation action" to shut down Proposition 71 and all its progeny (California Politics Today™ #383)

7-13-05: California's Attorney General and Secretary of State square off over Proposition 77, the re-districting initiative (California Politics Today™ #382)

7-11-05: California Department of Health Services spokesperson talks about the decision to suspend California's state medical marijuana ID pilot program (California Politics Today™ #381)

7-11-05: Alleged "special interest" attorney discusses pending litigation against California's Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) embryonic stem cell research group (California Politics Today™ #380)

7-11-05: Ted Costa, CEO of People's Advocate, defends Proposition 77's right to be on the November 8, 2005, California Statewide Special Election ballot, while Bill Lockyer, California's Attorney General, explains why it shouldn't be there (California Politics Today™ #379)

7-2-05: Karl Rove outed as source of criminal leak from White House; will Bush fire him? (California Politics Today #378/American Politics Today #36)

6-29-05: AMD spokesperson discusses anti-trust suit against Intel (California Politics Today™ #377)

6-29-05: Tom Cruise's behavior prompts "War of the Worlds" boycott and petition (California Politics Today #376/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #20)

6-28-05: Big advances all along the podcasting front (California Politics Today #375/Podmedia Reports #2)

6-27-05: Ali Partovi, CEO of GarageBand.com, talks about GarageBand's mission and its expansion into music and non-music podcasting (California Politics Today #374/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #19)

6-27-05: Saying he's "horrified but powerless" Brand X President Jim Pickrell comments on U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring cable networks "information services" and not "telecommunications services" (California Politics Today #373/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #18)

6-25-05: Owner of 330 Hardee's restaurants feelings about Paris Hilton car-washing/hamburger-eating commercial: "that's too hot," won't run it (California Politics Today #372/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #17)

6-18-05: With only 9 days to go until the second debut of the Paris Hilton Hardee's® Spicy BBQ Thickburger™ Topped with Texas Toothpicks™ television ad, Brad Haley, EVP at Carl's Jr., talks about the impending launch (California Politics Today #371/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #14)

6-18-05: Only 10 days to go until the launch of the Paris Hilton Hardee's® Spicy BBQ Thickburger™ Topped with Texas Toothpicks™ television ad (California Politics Today #370/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #12)

6-15-05: Possible candidate for Lt. Governor of California in 2006 Mary "Mary Carey" Cook addresses the issues in a 2003 California gubernatorial recall election phone interview (California Politics Today™ #369)

6-13-05: Connie McCormack, Registrar of Voters for Los Angeles County, says the County "will rise to the challenge," of a $10-13 million dollar November, 2005, Special Election, as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tells LA County "to put it on our tab" (California Politics Today™ #368)

6-7-05: Utah Department of Public Safety spokesperson discusses Utah's "Driving Privilege Card" and associated issues (California Politics Today #367/ American Politics Today #29)

6-7-05: Sprint spokesperson discusses PCS Vision's "walled garden" and "open garden" approach to protecting underage cell phone users from pornography (California Politics Today #366/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #11)

6-3-05: Latest on Michael Jackson trial: Jury not deliberating (California Politics Today #365/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #10)

6-4-05: California State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), spokespersons for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security discuss high-tech ID card issues (California Politics Today™ #364)

6-3-05: U.S. Department of Homeland Security says "it is too early in the process to discuss the type of technology that may be required" to implement the "common, machine-readable technology" provision of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (California Politics Today #363/ American Politics Today #28)

6-3-05: California State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) discusses SB 682, the Identity Information Protection Act of 2005 (California Politics Today™ #362)

6-2-05: EFF attorney explains why the high-tech civil liberties group supports California Senate Bill 682, which would, in most cases, prohibit RFID on California government ID documents (California Politics Today™ #361)

5-28-05: Saying "We simply should not go down the road of using taxpayer dollars to kill young humans," U.S Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) condemns House vote on embryonic stem cell research (California Politics Today #360/ American Politics Today #27)

5-28-05: Rumor surfaces that a "body double," not Paris Hilton, sudsed up and violated a Carl's Jr.'s Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger™ in infamous tv ad (California Politics Today #359/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #9)

5-27-05: Blocked by ClearPlay, posing as the Paris Hilton burger commercial, porn surfaces on underagers' cell phones (California Politics Today #358/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #8)

5-25-05: Anti-Paris Hilton/Carl's Jr. boycott gathers steam, while parodists and critics abound (California Politics Today #357/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #7)

5-25-05: Brad Haley, EVP at Carl's Jr., says company has no plans to pull the Paris Hilton ad, emphasizing that, "at the end of the day, it's just an ad" (California Politics Today #356/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #6)

5-25-05: Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, discusses current issues in cloning and stem cell research (California Politics Today #355/ Etopia Media Medical News Network #79)

5-24-05: Melissa Caldwell, Parents Television Council spokesperson, calls Carl's Jr.'s Paris Hilton ad "a violation of families' trust," but says PTC won't be filing a complaint with the FCC or organizing a boycott against the company (California Politics Today #354/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #5)

5-24-05: Paris Hilton pretends to have sex with a $6 hamburger for money in public while Parents Television Council objects (California Politics Today #353/ Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #4)

5-19-05: Korean team led by Hwang Woo-suk creates 11 lines of human embryonic stem cells from afflicted patients; ethical issues remain (California Politics Today #352/ Etopia Media Medical News Network #70)

5-18-05: Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa elected by 9% of over-18 year olds in the City of Los Angeles (California Politics Today™ #351)

5-17-05: BPL bill passes Texas Senate, BPL operations at merged Duke-Cinergy, BPL Symposium in Long Beach, House Resolution 230 calls for moratorium on BPL deployment pending further review of BPL RFI by FCC and more public comment (California Politics Today #350/ Broadband over Power Line World™ #31)

5-16-05: National Biodiesel Board CEO Joe Jobe discusses President Bush's "biodiesel event" and provides biodiesel backgrounder (California Politics Today #349/ Biodiesel World #1)

5-15-05: A bio-medical, ethical and political embryonic stem cell primer (California Politics Today™ #348)

5-11-05: California cannot sell $3 billion in embryonic stem cell research bonds until a lawsuit challenging its right to do so is resolved (California Politics Today™ #347)

5-10-05: U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) thanks the White House and various U.S. Senators for their support of REAL ID Act of 2005 as the U.S. Senate approves it (California Politics Today™ #346/ American Politics Today #16)

5-9-05: LA-Rx program sets timetable for implementing bulk purchasing/drug discount card arrangements (California Politics Today™ #345/ Etopia Media Medical News Network #66)

5-6-05: Jerry Flanagan, consumer advocate at Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, talks about building consumer power through bulk purchasing (California Politics Today™ #344)

5-5-05: Provo, Utah, Mayor Lewis K. Billings, speaking on behalf of the United Telecom Council (UTC) and the American Public Power Association (APPA) tells U.S. House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet that he supports municipal broadband (California Politics Today™ #343/ Broadband over Power Line World™ #30)

5-4-05: Los Angeles City Council adopts "LA-Rx" plan for bulk pharmaceutical purchasing (California Politics Today™ #342/ Etopia Media Medical News Network #65)

5-4-05: Dr. David Adamson, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Reproductive Care, Inc. (ARC), talks about egg donations for embryonic stem cell research (California Politics Today™ #341/ Etopia Media Medical News Network #64)

5-3-05: Bill Aho, CEO, ClearPlay, Inc., talks about his company's DVD filtering technology (California Politics Today™ #340/ Entertainment Technology World #21)

4-29-05: Screen Actors Guild spokesperson supports anti-piracy, but opposes third-party editing, provisions of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (California Politics Today™ #339)

4-29-05: SBC spokesman says the City of Los Angeles should look before it leaps into Wi-Fi (California Politics Today™ #338)

4-29-05: Directors Guild of America (DGA) takes strong exception to the legalizing of third-party editing of its members' work (California Politics Today™ #337)

4-29-05: Thera Bradshaw, General Manager of the City of Los Angeles' Information Technology Agency (ITA), talks about "Fast & Easy: the Future of WiFi & Beyond in the City of Los Angeles" (California Politics Today™ #336)

4-28-05: Curt Gibbs, Senior Resource Development Officer at the City of Los Angeles' Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), talks about "Fast & Easy: the Future of WiFi & Beyond in the City of Los Angeles" (California Politics Today™ #335)

4-28-05: Morley Winograd, chair of the Los Angeles City WiFi & Beyond Executive Panel, talks about "Fast & Easy: the Future of WiFi & Beyond in the City of Los Angeles" (California Politics Today™ #334)

4-28-05: City of Los Angeles' WiFi & Beyond Executive Panel launches "Fast & Easy: the Future of WiFi & Beyond in the City of Los Angeles (California Politics Today™ #333/ Unwired LA #15)

4-27-05: Jonathan Moreno, co-chair, National Academy of Sciences Embryonic Stem Cell Research Guidelines Committee, talks about these guidelines (California Politics Today™ #332)

4-27-05: Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves, talks about embryonic stem cell research, calls for a moratorium on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) (California Politics Today™ #331)

4-27-05: Richard Doerflinger at United States Conference of Catholic Bishops talks about embryonic stem cell research (California Politics Today™ #330)

4-26-05: Major investor-owned utilities in California comment on their broadband over power line plans (California Politics Today™ #329)

4-25-05: Bill Rosendahl, candidate for Los Angeles City Council in the 11th Council District, talks about the issues in his campaign (California Politics Today™ #328)

4-25-05: Robert Berger, Project Director, Fresh Air Dining Program, talks about the arrival of smoke-free outdoor dining in Los Angeles (California Politics Today™ #327)

4-22-05: California Public Utilities Commissioner Susan Kennedy explains why the FCC and not the states should determine voice-over-IP (VoIP) rules (California Politics Today™ #326)

4-22-05: California State Senator George Runner (R-Antelope Valley) discusses add-ons to Proposition 71 provided by SB 18 and SCA 13 (California Politics Today™ #325)

4-20-05: Embryonic Stem Cell and Human Reproductive Cloning: Resources, Arguments For and Arguments Against (California Politics Today™ #323)

4-19-05: David Fink, spokesperson for Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, talks about prescription drug initiatives for California, including "Cal Rx" (California Politics Today™ #322)

4-19-05: Same, but different, controversies rage around embryonic stem cell research in Australia/Tasmania and the U.S. (California Politics Today™ #321)

4-18-05: Betty Poirier, Massachusetts State Representative, discusses the possible exploitation of women as "egg farms" for embryonic stem cell research and treatments (California Politics Today™ #320)

4-17-05: Fears of "female human egg farming" grow, while local, national, and global battles over human cloning rage (California Politics Today™ #319)

4-16-05: A remotely-recorded video of Jim Pickrell, President, Brand X, discussing Brand X v. FCC, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding ISP access to cable networks (California Politics Today™ #318)

4-15-05: Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy for the California Nurses Association, talks about "Cal Rx" (California Politics Today™ #317)

4-14-05: Kristine Yahn, Executive Director of Californians for Patient Care, discusses "Cal Rx" (California Politics Today™ #316)

4-14-05: President Bush "strongly endorses Senator Brownback's bill, S. 658, which would ban the practice of human cloning" (California Politics Today™ #315)

4-12-05: Major drug companies launch multi-media "Cal Rx" initiative campaign (California Politics Today™ #314)

4-9-05: S. 658, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback's bill to ban "therapeutic" as well as "reproductive" human cloning, will be opposed by organizational clone of Proposition 71 campaign committee (California Politics Today™ #313)

4-6-05: Attorney and Plaintiff in anti-ICOC suit explain their case (California Politics Today™ #312)

3-29-05: Find up-to-the-minute reports about California's stem cell project at "california stem cell report" (California Politics Today™ #311)

3-23-05: Dana Cody, Executive Director at Life Legal Defense Foundation, responds to California Supreme Court Decision not to hear anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit (California Politics Today™ #310)

3-4-05: California State Senator John Campbell discusses Governor Schwarzenegger's plans for "One Million Solar Roofs by 2018" in California (California Politics Today™ #309/Solar World #4)

3-3-05: Calvin Massey, law professor at Hastings College of the Law and constitutional expert, says that organizations spending California state money for "public benefit" are except from the plain reading of Article XIV, Section 3, of the California State Constitution; he also cites difficulties in determining (or pre-determining) if there is a "public benefit" in the absence of a substantial public record (California Politics Today™ #308)

3-2-05: Jesse Reynolds, CGS Program Director, reports on yesterday's ICOC meeting, differentiates CGS position on embryonic stem cell research from that of "anti-abortion rights" opponents of Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #307)

2-28-05: Nathan Barankin, spokesperson for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, talks about legal representation for the AG's clients, the ICOC and the four California constitutional officers named as respondents in People's Advocate vs. ICOC, CA Supreme Court, No. S121655 (California Politics Today™ #306)

2-28-05: Dana Cody, LLDF attorney in ICOC constitutionality case, clarifies the process, calls Proposition 71 "a money grab" and "a hoax" (California Politics Today™ #305)

2-27-05: Pro-life and anti-corporate movements both separately attack the bio-medical complex, in the form of Proposition 71 and the ICOC, but no alliance in sight yet (California Politics Today™ #304)

2-27-05: John Mott-Smith, Director of Elections Division, Office of the Secretary of State, California, obliquely hints that digital signature-based voter identification and authentication databases paid for with HAVA money may be a possibility (California Politics Today™ #303/Etopia Media Voting News #20)

2-25-05: An "audit of California HAVA spending under Secretary of State Kevin Shelley" retrospective and wrap-up (California Politics Today™ #302/Etopia Media Voting News #19)

2-25-05: Possible revival of remote Internet voting looms in US as Swiss-based co-creator of the Geneva State e-Voting System (GSeVS) opens a new office in Boston, Massachusetts (California Politics Today™ #301/Etopia Media Voting News #18)

2-25-05: Dana Cody, executive director, Life Legal Defense Foundation, explains People's Advocate's anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit (California Politics Today™ #300)

2-23-05: Public interest lawyer asks for public hearing to discuss proposed reforms for ICOC (California Politics Today™ #299)

2-22-05: An avian flu retrospective (California Politics Today™ #298/Etopia Media Medical News Network #56)

2-22-05: Noted bio-ethicist will brief ICOC members and the public about pressing ethical issues involved in stem cell research (California Politics Today™ #297)

2-22-05: Legal-medical team petitions ICOC to set a date for a public hearing to consider the adoption of some new regulations to govern their operations (California Politics Today™ #296)

2-21-05: Nine Shift co-author endorses a CyberCIRM (California Politics Today™ #295)

2-21-05: Los Angeles City Wi-Fi and Beyond vision panel meets in Van Nuys, receives public input (California Politics Today™ #294/Unwired LA #13/ Broadband Wireless Access World #31)

2-19-05: Let's use HAVA money to build Smart Initiatives- and remote Internet voting-ready digital voter databases (California Politics Today™ #293)

2-18-05: California Assemblymember Chuck DeVore (R-70th A.D.) says proponents of "always-on governor" state constitutional amendment SCA6 may launch a ballot initiative if Democratic Party legislators block its passage (California Politics Today™ #292)

2-17-05: Spokesperson for California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante explains why Senator Cox's constitutional amendment, SCA6, removing "absence from the state" as a reason to transfer gubernatorial authority to the lieutenant governor won't fly (California Politics Today™ #291)

2-17-05: Dr. Phyllis Preciado, ICOC Site Selection Sub-committee member, talks about the CIRM site selection process (California Politics Today™ #290)

2-15-05: Scammer-spammer "Pete Schmitz" offers fake degrees over the Internet (California Politics Today™ #289)

2-9-05: Philadelphia CIO Dianah Neff discusses unwiring Philadelphia in anticipation of Philadelphia Mayor John Street's upcoming announcement of the city's wireless plan (California Politics Today™ #288/ Broadband Wireless Access World™ #25)

2-7-05: University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Nathaniel Persily details the "representation malfunction" that led him to compare the rate of turnover in the U.S. Congress unfavorably with that of the former Soviet Politburo in today's New York Times (California Politics Today™ #287/American Politics Today™ #13)

2-3-05: Incumbent mayor and mayoral candidate James Hahn announces plan to improve wireless access in Los Angeles by leasing space on "120,000 streetlights, 4,500 traffic signals and 900 buildings" owned by the City of Los Angeles (California Politics Today #286/Unwired LA™ #8)

1-29-05: Paramount Pictures Chairman and Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee member Sherry Lansing says that the competition for where to put the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine is "now open to any place in the State of California" that meets all the other requirements specified by the ICOC's Site Search Subcommittee in its Request for Proposals; Cyberspace CIRM proposal is made to Site Search Subcommittee

1-24-05: Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights spokesperson David Fink discusses his group's plan to circulate petitions to put a bulk-purchase prescription initiative on the November, 2005, California special election ballot

1-22-05: Andris Berzins, VP, Marketing and Business Development at AeroScout, talks about "enterprise visibility" combining Wi-Fi, RFID, and telemetry (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #23)

1-21-05: Bernard Etzinger, spokesperson at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., talks about Broadband Canada and related issues (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #22)

1-21-05: UTStarcom VP of Strategic Marketing Jeffrey Paine talks about its new F1000 Wi-Fi handset and other startling advances in wireless and other broadband technologies, including TV over IP (TVoIP) (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #21)

1-20-05: Etopia Media News Network publisher proposes putting the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in cyberspace

1-17-05: Intel spokesperson Mark Miller discusses technical and political aspects of a broader wireless broadband roll-out (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #19)

1-16-05: Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) ramps up with a web site and an e-mail address, announces three public meetings, and demonstrates the feasibility of putting the operations of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in cyberspace by allowing members to attend and the public to comment via remote audio/video access

1-16-05: Commentary: California's Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) needs an integrated strategic, computing, purchasing and accountability plan before it spends $3/6 billion in investor/taxpayer money

1-16-05: Newly-reformatted version of May 13, 1984 article in The Fresno Bee entitled "County bond consultant's role questioned," makes it easier to read about ICOC Chair and CIRM Interim President Robert Klein II's operational style and methods back in the day

1-15-05: Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights spokesperson David Fink says his group is researching patent law in preparation for its efforts to ensure that California taxpayers and consumers get their fare share of Proposition 71 profits and benefits

1-15-05: Berkeley-based public interest attorney Charles Halpern calls for more transparency and accountability on the part of the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC)

1-14-05: LA Councilmember and mayoral candidate Bernard Parks comments on the grand jury indictment of former partner and senior vice president in the Los Angeles office of public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard

1-14-05: Indiana State Representative Ed Mahern, co-author of Indiana House Bill #1148, which would limit the rights of Indiana municipalities to offer broadband Internet access to their residents, explains this legislation (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #18)

1-13-05: United Telecom Council Vice President and General Counsel Jill Lyon speaks out in support of municipalities' right to offer broadband services to their residents (Broadband over Power Line World™ #19)

1-13-05: Transparency advocate and former California State Senator Barry Keene, co-author of the Bagley-Keene Act, criticizes the lack of pre-election debate about waiving the provisions of that Act for the ICOC/Stem Cell Working Groups and says that Proposition 71 proponents should "waive the exemption unless they can make a strong case" for it publicly

1-12-05: Vonage CFO John Rego discusses voice-over-IP (Technology Products World #3)

1-11-05: Commentary: Is putting California's Proposition 71-created Stem Cell Institute in cyberspace a crazy and stupid idea or merely the logical extension of some well-accepted principles about the modern workplace?

1-8-05: SightSpeed CEO Brad Treat explains the SightSpeed videoconferencing system (Technology Products World #2)

1-8-05: Commentary: Everybody wins by putting the Proposition 71 Stem Cell Institute in Cyberspace, California

1-7-05: Terry Francke, general counsel of Californians Aware, wants Proposition 71 Working Groups to be subject to the openness and transparency provisions of the Bagley-Keene Act, or something like them

1-7-05: Jesse Reynolds, Program Director at Center for Genetics and Society, calls for more openness and stronger conflict-of-interest rules for stem cell research Institute

1-6-05: Telecommunications attorney Jim Baller says that the United States must address the growing "broadband gap" if it intends to remain internationally competitive (Broadband over Power Line™ #18)

1-4-05: Ben Fritz, technology reporter for Variety, discusses the present and future of online video delivery (Entertainment Technology World #8)

1-4-05: Ed Hare, ARRL Laboratory Manager, says that group "has the doors wide open" to cooperation with BPL industry to resolve interference issues (Broadband over Power Line™ #17)

1-3-05: Citing successful co-existence of in-home BPL (HomePlug®) and amateur radio, FCC official says that "amateurs can operate and BPL can operate in a compatible mode" and comments specifically on BPL-generated RF interference issues in Briarcliff Manor, New York, and Cottonwood, Arizona (Broadband over Power Line™ #16)

12-28-04: EarthLink puts its comments on BPL in the context of its efforts to maintain access rights; spokesperson says EarthLink "is as bullish on BPL as anyone" (Broadband over Power Line™ #15)

12-27-04: Alarcon calls on Los Angeles voters to "change LA"; Hertzberg cites his web site; 19th century German and 20th century French philosophers of "old Europe" weigh in

12-24-04: Who's minding the broadband over power line (BPL) store in Cottonwood, Arizona? (Broadband over Power Line™ #14)

12-24-04: Commentary: Using the Broadband California infrastructure, let's solve the problem of where to put the $3 billion California Institute for Regenerative Medicine by putting it everywhere and nowhere (Broadband California #3)

12-21-04: Clifford Hauser, KD6XH, ARRL Section Manager, Arizona, and Robert Shipton, K8EQC, VP, Verde Valley Amateur Radio Association, discuss BPL interference issues in Cottonwood, Arizona (Broadband over Power Line™ #13)

12-21-04: ICOC/stem cell chair Robert Klein II contributed $176,139.87 to three of the four politicians who (unanimously) nominated him for his new job

12-20-04: Twenty-year-old article in The Fresno Bee reveals the secrets of stem cell entrepreneur Robert Klein's success

12-19-04: Two stories about new locations for broadband over power line, at least one of which is having trouble with amateur radio interference (Broadband over Power Line™ #12)

12-18-04: Con Ed-Ambient's Briarcliff BPL trial runs into interference from amateur radio operators, whose association, the ARRL, asks the FCC (again) to shut it down (Broadband over Power Line™ #11)

12-16-04: Con Ed's sale of its CEC subsidiary will not affect the Con Ed-Ambient BPL trial; Con Ed spokesperson says six-month (free) residential BPL trial will begin "within the next month or so" with "approximately 400" customers (Broadband over Power Line™ #10)

12-15-04: Con Edison, lead test site for Ambient BPL equipment, sells its broadband operations to FiberNet, while EarthLink attorney tells the FCC that "wireless and BPL technologies are not likely to be competitive in cost and performance with cable and DSL over the last mile to the home" (Broadband over Power Line™ #9)

12-15-04: California State Senator Deborah Ortiz explains SB 18, while Proposition 71's principal author is unanimously nominated to head the ICOC created by that measure

12-15-04: California State Senator Tom McClintock accuses fellow State Senator Deborah Ortiz of "monumental hypocrisy" for trying to change Proposition 71 provisions he says she previously strongly and publicly defended

12-15-04: Jesse Reynolds, Program Director at Center for Genetics and Society, calls on ICOC to "act responsibly and reject the nomination of Robert Klein" as its head at Friday's organizational meeting

12-14-04: ARRL CEO David Sumner defends amateur radio operators against RF interference from broadband over power line, calls BPL a "transitional" technology, and says he prefers fiber as a means of delivering broadband access (Broadband over Power Line™ #8)

12-14-04: Ken Lowe, V.P., Strategic Marketing, Sigma Designs, discusses digital media processing standards, solutions, and trends (Entertainment Technology World #7)

12-13-04: Deborah Burger, President of California Nurses Association, says that California State Senator Deborah Ortiz' plan to shape up Proposition 71 agencies' operations with SB 18 is "like trying to close the barn door after the horses have gotten out"

12-13-04: John Joyce, Ambient Corporation President and CEO, talks about broadband over power line (Broadband over Power Line™ #7)

12-11-04: An Open Letter to California State Legislators Concerning "Broadband California"

12-10-04: California Nurses Association spokesperson isn't ready to comment specifically on Proposition 71 "clean-up bill," SB 18, but says CNA is "committed to trying to take whatever action is needed to correct the many inadequacies of that initiative"

12-10-04: Marvin Bloomquist, speaking for ham radio operators in Burnet, Texas, finds some fault with the deployment and the deployers of broadband over power line in his community (Broadband over Power Line™ #6)

12-9-04: CPUC Commissioner Susan Kennedy sees "something substantial [in BPL] going by mid-year in 2005," saying "it's criminal that California does not have a major BPL pilot project or commercial project underway and I intend to do everything we can to change that"

12-9-04: Rep. Phil King, chairman of the Texas Legislature's Regulated Industries Committee, discusses a broad range of broadband issues, including BPL in Texas (Broadband over Power Line World #5)

12-9-04: CPUC Commissioner Susan Kennedy wants to spur broadband over power line in California, saying "it's criminal that California does not have a major BPL pilot project or commercial project underway and I intend to do everything we can to change that"

12-9-04: California State Senator Deborah Ortiz introduces SB 18, the "Proposition 71 Public Accountability Act"

12-9-04: Internet Voting in Geneva (Etopia Media Voting News #16)

12-8-04: Susan Kennedy, California Public Utilities Commissioner, is looking forward to a more "forward looking" CPUC as two new members come aboard in 2005

12-7-04: Unlike PG&E and SCE, San Diego Gas & Electric will admit that it is "looking into" broadband over power line (BPL) (Broadband over Power Line™ #4)

12-7-04: Nicole Young, at National League of Cities, says that municipalities will continue to oppose telco-cable efforts to block their right to offer broadband wireless services to their residents (Broadband Wireless Access World #16)

12-6-04: Michael Bates, V.P., Sales and Marketing at Broadband Horizons, broadband over power line pioneer, discusses its BPL roll-out in Texas (Broadband over Power Line™ #3)

12-4-04: Digital Common Sense (Broadband California™ #1)

12-3-04: Bob Stern, at Center for Governmental Studies, says that last night's debate at the Museum of Tolerance has gotten the Los Angeles mayor race off to a good start

12-3-04: LAUSD responds to Bob Hertzberg's proposal to break it up, says he is "play[ing] politics"

12-2-04: Three mayoral campaigns and one reporter preview tonight's debate at the Museum of Tolerance among candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles

12-2-04: LA Councilmember Bernard Parks previews tonight's mayoral debate, emphasizes his ability as a practical problem solver

12-2-04: LA Councilmember Antonio Villaraigosa's campaign manager previews tonight's mayoral debate, emphasizes his candidate's superior record of accomplishment

12-2-04: Los Angeles Daily News Managing Editor Ron Kaye previews tonight's Los Angeles mayoral debate, cites "corruption, congestion, and crime" as the three biggest issues facing the city

12-2-04: California State Senator Richard Alarcon previews tonight's LA mayoral debate, calls for 1,000 new police officers without raising taxes

11-30-04: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signs "House Bill 30 (HB30)" into law, citing Verizon's "signed agreement" "to waive its right of first refusal in regard to Philadelphia’s proposed municipal Wi-Fi network guaranteeing that that particular project can proceed"

11-30-04: Brett Kilbourne, United Power Line Council official, discusses broadband over power line (Broadband over Power Line™ #2)

11-30-04: Verizon spokesperson says telco is waiving its "right-of-first-refusal" vis a vis Philadelphia's municipal wireless (Wi-Fi/WiFi) network, cites significant benefits from a signed Pennsylvania Bill 30 (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #14)

11-30-04: Bill 30 won't prevent broadband wireless deployment in Philadelphia, says spokesperson for Pennsylvania state senator who lead the effort to draft and pass it (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #13)

11-30-04: Philadelphia's CIO, Dianah Neff, says that the city is trying to negotiate a compromise with Verizon that will allow it to build a universal ubiquitous wireless broadband Internet access network within its boundaries (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #12)

11-29-04: Verizon responds to claims it's trying to derail Philadelphia's municipal broadband wireless plans (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #11)

11-27-04: Broadband to burn, but who will control it? (Broadband Wireless Access World™ #10)

11-24-04: Five candidates, three reporters, three corporate sponsors, Museum of Tolerance, KNBC-TV, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles, and the California State Forum collaborate to put on December 2, 2004, Los Angeles Mayoral Debate

11-23-04: Denise Koenig, SBC spokesperson, discusses the new SBC-Yahoo! integrated broadband IP services platform collaboration (Photopia™ #2)

11-22-04: Doane Liu, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor, says that incumbent cable and telephone companies will not have a "veto" over recommendations of Mayor Hahn's Broadband Executive Panel on the Unwiring of LA (Unwired LA™ #7)

11-21-04: Bernard Parks, L.A. City Councilmember, compares Fleishman-Hillard and Mayor Hahn to Arthur Andersen Accounting and Enron, and again urges him to come clean on various money scandals

11-18-04: United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) announces that it has no plans to develop Remote Internet Voting System Standards (Etopia Media Voting News #15)

11-18-04: Jim Allison, senior planner with the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA), discusses unwiring Amtrak (Unwired LA #6)

11-18-04: Thera Bradshaw, general manager of the City of Los Angeles' Information Technology Agency (ITA) and a member of LA's Broadband Executive Panel (BEP) discusses unwiring LA (Unwired LA #5)

11-17-04: Morley Winograd, executive director of the Center for Telecom Management at USC and the chair of the Executive Broadband Panel, discusses the unwiring of Los Angeles (Unwired LA #4)

11-16-04: Rajit Gadh, Director of WINMEC and a member of the LA Broadband Executive Panel, discusses the unwiring of Los Angeles (Unwired LA #3)

11-15-04: Denise Koenig, SBC spokesperson, discusses "Project Lightspeed," SBC's fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and fiber-to-the-neighborhood (FTTN) initiative (Photopia #1)

11-15-04: More from the Department of Defense on Remote Internet Voting System Standards (RIVSS) (Etopia Media Voting News #14)

11-13-04: Todd Richmond, Managing Director of the Annenberg Center for Communication, member of LA's Broadband Executive Panel, discusses unwiring LA (Unwired LA™ #2)

11-11-04: Rich Grimes, EVP at Wireless Capital Partners, member of LA's Broadband Executive Panel, talks about unwiring Los Angeles (Unwired LA™ #1)

11-10-04: Broadband Wireless Access World #8: Bert Williams, V.P. Marketing at Tropos Networks, talks about the new Pershing Square "hot zone" in Downtown Los Angeles

11-10-04: Etopia Media Medical News Network #49: Dr. Eliseo Guallar, at Johns Hopkins University, discuss a new study showing that taking high-dosage Vitamin E supplements increases overall mortality rate

11-10-04: Broadband Wireless Access World #7: Esfandiari, CEO of Aiirmesh Communications, discusses its broadband wireless Internet deployment in Van Nuys

11-9-04: Georgia ACLU lawyer discusses the principles at stake in suit against Cobb County, George, School District to remove "theories of origin" stickers from biology textbooks

11-9-04: Cobb County, Georgia, School District spokesperson comments on "theories of origin" case, saying he expects it will be resolved soon

11-8-04: Stanford University confers the gift of immortality—on itself

11-8-04: John Eastman, lead attorney in Horowitz, et al. vs. County of Los Angeles, et al., discusses this case, and related issues

11-7-04: Red and Blue, right and left, unite, agreeing that the United States ought to be dismantled along geo-ideological lines, in a grand "excession" (EXpulsion/secession)

11-6-04: Broadband Wireless Access World #6: Aiirmesh brings community-based broadband wireless Internet access to the San Fernando Valley, starting in Van Nuys

11-5-04: L.A. mayoral candidate Bob Hertzberg, trying to undermine incumbent candidate and Mayor James Hahn, posts link to California Politics Today #173: "Bernard Parks, L.A. City Councilmember, calls for a restoration of integrity in city government as he raises corruption charges against Mayor James Hahn," featuring one of his competitors attacking Mayor Hahn

11-4-04: Mitchel Benson, Director of Communications in the Office of California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, says that responsibility for monitoring the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee set up by Proposition 71 to conduct $3 billion in stem cell research for conflicts-of-interest will reside with the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee itself

11-3-04: Bernard Parks, L.A. City Councilmember, calls for a restoration of integrity in city government as he raises corruption charges against Mayor James Hahn

11-3-04: The "life-like" opposes and gives rise to the "ultra-life-like"

11-3-04: Rising above a mere consideration of plagiarism, we encounter the "Spectacle"

11-3-04: Mel Gibson appropriates Tom McClintock's words, without mentioning that he has, but McClintock, through his spokesperson, says he doesn't mind, that it's way OK with him

11-3-04: Putting words in his mouth: how California State Senator Tom McClintock set the stage for movie star Mel Gibson to rhetorically attack California Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Initiative

11-2-04: Mel Gibson "speaks" California State Senator Tom McClintock's words as his own in National Review Online "interview"; McClintock is way ok with that

11-1-04: Scott Gottlieb, M.D., and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, warns that California is about to invest a lot of "dumb money" in "a handful of second-rate biotech companies" by passing Proposition 71

11-1-04: California State Senator Tom McClintock blasts Proposition 71 as "perhaps the worst ballot measure that we've seen over the past decade"

10-31-04: Allegedly dirty money helped Mayor James Hahn keep Los Angeles intact in 2002; corrupt financial and political chickens may finally be coming home to roost as Los Angeles Times investigation spearheads effort to clean up the City (again)

10-31-04: A "No on 71" wrap-up, with a suggestion for how to cope with its likely passage on November 2nd

10-28-04: Bobby Shriver focuses on "people who don't have houses" in his campaign for Santa Monica City Council

10-28-04: Etopia Media Voting News #12: Lawrence Caplan, Florida attorney, provides an update on Florida's "perfect storm" of electoral confusion

10-23-04: As Republicans implement non-secret "vote-by-fax" systems, Congressional Democrats respond with new questions about the Federal Voting Assistance Program

10-23-04: Election Assistance Commission, Department of Defense, California, North Dakota, Utah, Missouri, New York City and Florida try to get their high-tech voting arrangements straightened out in time for November 2nd

10-23-04: Santa Cruz County, California, approves raising to three pounds the amount of marijuana that can be possessed by an individual under the state's "medical marijuana" law; President Bush, not a known current user of marijuana, still gets his facts wrong about the flu vaccine shortage, despite some hypocrisy on the subject of drug re-importation from Canada

10-23-04: More "No on 71" attacks

10-22-04: An augmented "Mostly No on 71" Sampler

10-22-04: California Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg reveals her position on Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Initiative

10-22-04: Unscientific e-thePeople poll shows three-fourths of respondents oppose the passage of Proposition 71

10-21-04: Kris Heffron, Chief Deputy Registrar for Los Angeles County, updates the vote-by-fax story

10-21-04: Susan Berke Fogel, spokesperson for the Pro-Choice Alliance Against Proposition 71, attacks the controversial stem cell initiative

10-21-04: H. Rex Greene, M.D., medical oncologist, dissects Proposition 71 and finds an out-of-control political, financial, scientific, and ethical malignancy threatening to metastasize

10-21-04: Scott Rafferty, petitioners' attorney in Bridgeman v. Shelley, discusses secrecy waivers in vote-by-fax systems

10-21-04: A fresh can of worms is opened as Republican vote-by-fax plans encounter criticism and litigation

10-19-04: News Commentary: Ridiculous and counter-factual op-ed piece in Los Angeles Daily News unconvincingly attacks Proposition 71

10-19-04: Jamie Court at ElectionWatchdog.org attacks Proposition 64 and the horse it's riding in on

10-19-04: Jesse Reynolds, Program Director at the Center for Genetics and Society, explains his pro-choice, progressive group's opposition to Proposition 71

10-18-04: Deborah Burger, R.N., President of California Nurses Association, favors embryonic stem cell research but marshals pro-choice, financial, equity arguments against Proposition 71

10-17-04: "Creative financing" of Proposition 71 raises questions that transcend ethics

10-14-04: California's Attorney General warns against "unconscionability" in flu vaccine pricing, while California's Department of Health Services waits for word from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding its allotment of shots

10-13-04: Santa Cruz County Supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt explains its new policy allowing registered users of medical marijuana to possess up to three pounds of this dried plant

10-11-04: Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo discusses Stem Cell Bonds Proposition 71's standing in its poll

10-10-04: Expansion of smoke-free areas is considered in San Francisco and Santa Monica

10-9-04: Flu Vaccine Fiasco, a Federal Board of Best Medical Practices, and a New Voting Assignment for the Already-Swamped Election Assistance Commission

10-8-04: Etopia Media Voting News #9: Congresses passes the DOD Internet voting buck to the Election Assistance Commission; no comment yet from EAC

10-6-04: News Commentary: Franklin Raines, a Judas who sold out his generation for 30 million pieces of silver, faces his day of reckoning

10-5-04: Etopia Media Medical News Network #22: Harvard Medical School clinical instructor John Abramson discusses his Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine and its relevance to current medical issues

10-5-04: Etopia Media Medical News Network #21: Absent a reprieve from U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Chiron will destroy its inventory of flu vaccine, says its president, Howard Pien, after "Britain's FDA" suspends its license to manufacture Fluvirin®

10-4-04: Kris Heffron, Deputy Registrar of Voters in Los Angeles County, says LA County is ready for the November election and urges citizens to register, serve as poll workers, vote, and vote early (but only once)

10-4-04: Kris Heffron, Deputy Registrar of Voters in Los Angeles County, comments on opportunities lost due to Shelleygate, and urges citizens to register, serve as poll workers, vote, and vote early (but only once)

10-4-04: Robert Stern, President of the Center for Governmental Studies, comments on latest Shelleygate developments and their implications

10-1-04: Karen Hanretty, California Republican Party spokesperson, renews her call for Kevin Shelley's resignation and urges Democrats to join her

9-30-04: California Assemblymember Paul Koretz' Chief of Staff Teresa Stark discusses his efforts to create a smoke-free California

9-30-04: Etopia Media Medical News Network #17: Merck spokesperson discusses its recall of VIOXX®

9-29-04: Unscientific e-thePeople poll closes, with 87% of respondents opposing "Arnie's Amendment"

9-29-04: News Commentary: Snowbirdgate highlights need for universal, open-source voter database platform

9-29-04: Etopia Media Entertainment News Network #1: President of Harvard Lampoon hints that Jay Leno's departure from the Tonight Show was health-related

9-28-04: Unscientific e-thePeople poll shows 86% of respondents oppose "Arnie's Amendment"

9-27-04: Anti-smoking activist opens "outdoor front" with effort to create "smoke-free" Promenade in Santa Monica, California

9-27-04: Snowbirdgate World #2: "Operation Snowbird" organizer Lawrence Caplan explains his strategy for influencing the Florida vote in 2004 election

9-27-04: Columnists Michael Kinsley and Froma Harrop support embryonic stem cell research

9-25-04: Snowbirdgate World #1: Some basic background materials to help you understand the emerging Snowbirdgate scandal

9-24-04: Robert Lanza, M.D., embryonic stem cell research pioneer, strongly supports Proposition 71, says it's "brilliant"

9-24-04: Thumbs down for blastocysts; thumbs up for trans-humans

9-24-04: A "Mostly No on 71" Sampler

9-23-04: News Commentary: There's more than one way to skin an embryonic stem cell, and Proposition 71 is not the best one

9-23-04: Karen Hanretty, California Republican Party spokesperson, joins the Sacramento Bee in calling on California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to resign, opposes passage of Proposition 71

9-23-04: Spokesperson for Florida's Department of State responds in "Snowbirdgate," saying that it takes the matter of 46,000 "snowbirds" being double-registered and double-voting "very seriously"

9-23-04: Previously uninterested Election Assistance Commission expresses interest in investigating Shelleygate

9-22-04: Second Visalia Times-Delta editorial urges Governor Schwarzenegger to release funds to print and distribute the Easy Voter Guide now

9-21-04: "Arnie's Amendment" author, California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, discusses HJR 104, which would make non-native born Americans eligible to be President of the United States

9-21-04: James Walter, bioethicist, says questions of justice argue against passing Proposition 71

9-20-04: Susan Clark, project director of Easy Voter Guide Project, is waiting for California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's office to answer Department of Finance questions about Easy Voter Guide printing and distribution costs

9-20-04: Visalia Times-Delta editorial urges Governor Schwarzenegger to release funds to print and distribute the Easy Voter Guide now

9-17-04: Reverend Willie Bellamy, Executive Director of M.L. King Museum/Chavez Diversity Center and Dorothy Leonard, Secretary/Treasurer of Mission Trails Park Foundation welcome state audits ordered by California Controller Steve Westly

9-16-04: Newport Beach's Deputy City Attorney discusses his town's new smoke-free zone legislation

9-16-04: California State Senator Tom McClintock attacks Proposition 71 as "self-serving sham" that will spend money California doesn’t have

9-15-04: In wake of Shelley allegations, precipitated by his office's earlier research, California Controller Steve Westly orders reversion of $15 million in unspent Legislative Grants

9-14-04: Easy Voter Guide supporters want California to unfreeze $300,000 in federal HAVA money they need to print accessible, non-partisan voter education materials

9-13-04: Wesley Smith, bioethicist, attacks Proposition 71, as an "incredible, audacious money grab [and] corporate welfare at its most extreme"

9-11-04: Californians for Universal Voluntary Individual Genetic Sequencing (CUVIGS) gains coverage of its initiative plans, if not yet traction for them

9-10-04: California Republican Assembly President Mike Spence urges a "No" vote on Proposition 71

9-10-04: California Republican Assembly President Mike Spence discusses CRA's "California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley Must Resign" web site and campaign

9-10-04: Kristin Heffron, Los Angeles County's Chief Deputy Registrar of Voters, updates funding issues for November election support

9-6-04: New bioactivist group calls for universal, voluntary individual genome sequencing for all California residents

9-5-04: News Commentary: Socializing the Risk while Privatizing the Health Benefits and Profits, as California's Proposition 71 does, is Unethical

9-5-04: Some possible new hitches in the funding of California's 2004 election services

9-5-04: California Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg supports stem cell research but hasn't decided yet about supporting Proposition 71

9-5-04: Some questions about California's Proposition 71

9-4-04: California's Joint Legislative Budget Committee consultant explains ups and downs of state Department of Finance requests for funding for election purposes and discusses remaining step for funds approval

9-4-04: Valley Secession Candidate's 2002 Proposal for Ubiquitous, Universal Broadband Wireless Access is Now Philadelphia's 2004 Policy

9-3-04: California Department of Finance requests $15.2 million for essential election-related spending

9-2-04: Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Conny McCormack expects California to release LA's $2.5 million in HAVA voter education funds tomorrow

8-30-04: California Department of Finance declines to request $17.6 million in discretionary HAVA funds for Secretary of State Kevin Shelley

8-28-04: Roy Stearns, spokesperson for California Department of Parks and Recreation, explains about the missing half-million dollars granted to Neighbors Resource Center, stresses that Parks and Recreation bond funds are not involved

8-27-04: Ann Louise Bardach describes how a secret deal helped make Arnold Schwarzenegger governor

8-26-04: Republican Assemblymember and Democratic JLAC Chair's Chief of Staff agree that California's audit of HAVA spending will cost the state $100,000

8-26-04: California Assemblymember Dave Cox and Assemblymember Chan's Chief of Staff Discuss JLAC approval of Mr. Cox's request for audit of HAVA spending by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley and other audit requests

8-26-04: California State Senator Richard Alarcon, Vice Chair of Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Discusses JLAC Approval of Requests for Audits of HAVA, Parks & Recreation, Caltrans

8-25-04: California Assemblymember Dave Cox asks for state audit of HAVA funds

8-23-04: California Assemblymember John Campbell discusses the Kevin Shelley case

8-23-04: Robert M. Stern, President of the Center for Governmental Studies and creator of California disclosure laws, discusses Kevin Shelley case

8-22-04: California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley faces allegations of fund raising violations, federal funds misappropriation, and personnel abuse in growing "Shelleygate" scandal; procedures for appointing a successor are noted, in case he resigns

8-20-04: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's unveils plan for 1 million solar homes in California; his chief energy advisor provides some details

8-21-04: California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley faces allegations of misappropriation of federal HAVA voting funds; EAC declines comment, indicates it has neither interest nor ability to monitor spending of California's $95 million or rest of recently-disbursed $861 million in voting funds

8-16-04: California Assemblymember Jackie Goldberg supports stem cell research but hasn't decided yet about supporting Proposition 71

8-12-04: Judge Jim Gray joins the debate

8-11-04: Big debate non-participant Judge Jim Gray comments on his non-inclusion and the issues he would have raised had he been included

8-11-04: California's Democratic and Republican U.S. Senate candidates meet the press after their big debate

8-9-04: Filmmaker and Libertarian Aaron Russo urges a big turnout at Museum of Tolerance protest against "segregation of ideas" by League of Women Voters of California; NBC11 News anchor Allen Denton says his organization is "presenting as many views as we can of all the candidates that are actively participating"

8-6-04: A chance to possibly participate in the "members-only" League of Women Voters California Senate race debate on August 10th

8-6-04: Mark DiCamillo, Director of the Field (California) Poll, discusses third-party inclusion in political polls

8-3-04: Libertarian Senate candidate Judge Jim Gray comments on court decision not to enjoin League of Women Voters unless they allow him into their Museum of Tolerance debate on August 10th

8-2-04: Judge Grays asks Los Angeles Superior Court to issue a temporary restraining order halting LWV debate unless he's included in it

7-29-04: Benavidez v. Shelley: a compilation of pages

7-29-04: Bob Buster, Riverside County Supervisor, discusses current voting issues there

7-27-04: Commentary: Does freedom of the podium only apply to those who own one?

7-27-04: Scott Rasmussen at Rasmussen Reports answers some questions about polls in general and the recent California Senate race poll in particular

7-27-04: Judge Jim Gray likes Rasmussen poll results; League of Women Voters consultant calls it a "push poll" and says it won't get him into the debates

7-26-04: Top Libertarian pollster discusses the politics of polls in California Senate race and elsewhere

7-26-04: Judge Jim Gray commissions a statewide poll, gets almost ten percent

7-21-04: Linda Soubirous, first runner-up in Riverside County supervisorial election, sues for access to "redundant memories" of that election

7-16-04: Xandra Kayden, League of Women Voters leader, and Judge Jim Gray, Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate in California, discuss debate access issues

7-16-04: California Assemblymember Lloyd Levine discusses AB 2207, which establishes the San Fernando Valley as a separate statistical area

6-28-04: Open letter of inquiry sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency regarding treatment of detained undocumented immigrants

6-24-04: Libertarian Candidate for U.S. Senate and Council on American-Islamic Relations Government Relations Director Discuss Islam and California Politics

6-18-04: Judge Jim Gray, Libertarian Candidate for U.S. Senate, Calls for Modifying "Three Strikes" Law

6-17-04: California Secretary of State issues standards for accessible voter-verifiable paper audit trails, other election players respond

6-16-04: Patricia Yeager, Executive Director of California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, says DREs without VVPAT are good enough

6-11-04: Tastes Great AND Less Filling? AccuPoll's DRE with VVPAT may cut the Gordian Voting Knot

6-9-04: M. Stephen Jones, Merced County Registrar of Voters, Discusses Reinstatement of its Touch Screen Voting Machines for November, 2004, Elections

6-5-04: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) files amicus brief supporting Secretary of State Shelley's side of Benavidez v. Shelley

6-5-04: Trying to get an interview with Douglas Woods, Deputy Attorney General of California

6-4-04: John McDermott, Attorney Defending DRE Use, Discusses the Case against California Secretary of State Shelley

5-27-04: Judge Jim Gray, Libertarian Candidate for U.S. Senate, Calls for Rotating All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq by December 25, 2004

5-21-04: Doug Stone, Spokesperson for California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, Says that Requirement for VVPAT Remains and Lawsuit About it Continues

5-18-04: Attorney General Lockyer claims "client-attorney" privilege prevents his commenting on his defense of official pursuing a policy his own office says is probably illegal

5-17-04: Subtle Sparring Among Lawyers Focuses on the Legality or Illegality of Requiring Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trails as part of DRE Voting Systems

5-15-04: Howrey Simon Arnold & White Issue Press Release on Behalf of Their DRE Decertification Case Clients, Riverside County and the Disabled

5-12-04: Kern and San Bernardino Counties Support Overturn of Shelley's DRE Decertification; Riverside County Files Suit to Do So

5-11-04: Two Riverside County Supervisors and the County Registrar of Voters are going to Sacramento to Negotiate DREs' Status with California's Secretary of State

5-10-04: Riverside County Supervisor John Tavaglione Defends DRE Voting, Says Litigation Decision Due Tomorrow

5-5-04: Riverside County Supervisor Says DRE Has Worked Great There; Calls on California Secretary of State to Leave Well Enough Alone; Mentions Litigation, Reluctantly

5-4-04: Riverside County Registrar of Voters Calls for Cooperation with Secretary of State Shelley on Touchscreen Systems, Announces Decision of Riverside County Supervisors to Seek the Reversal of Shelley's DRE Decertification Decision

5-13-04: Enterprise Grid Alliance Leaders Explain Their Plans for Moving Grid Computing in the Enterprise Forward Expeditiously (Grid World #14)