California: Sacramento Bee

The Sacramento Bee's State Worker column often mentions how public employees feel picked on/abused/underappreciated by the public in general. Well, here's why this is happening -- the spate of stories people see or hear with passages like this: SAN DIEGO...

When will the SF Chronicle go all digital or close totally?

Her is a report on the ten newspapers about to go under or all digital--no longer killing trees.  The interesting note is that the Sacramento Bee, which is going all digital soon, is NOT on the list.

"6. The San Francisco Chronicle. Parent company Hearst has already set a deadline for shutting the paper if it cannot make tremendous cost cuts. The Chronicle lost as much as $70 million last year.  Even if the company could lower its costs, the northern California economy is in bad shape. The online version of the paper could be the only version by the middle of the 2009.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, should she run for governor in 2010, would be sitting pretty, with a 22-point lead in the latest Field Poll.

On the Republican side, Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, has the early lead with 21 percent support, with 54 percent undecided.

Those numbers are for the hypothetical match-ups 460 days from now. Capitol Alert has the exclusive statistical tabulations.

The GOP primary:

Whitman: 21 percent
Campbell: 18 percent
Poizner: 7 percent
Undecided: 54 percent

The Dem primary:

Feinstein: 38 percent
Brown: 16 percent
Villaraigosa: 16 percent
Newsom: 10 percent
Garamendi: 4 percent

Former Controller Steve Westly, schools chief Jack O'Connell and Treasurer Bill Lockyer weigh in at 2 percent or less.

Time for what you've all been waiting for - links.

• Check out Van Jones' testimony before Congress on how to increase national service.  Very good stuff.

• Yesterday's open thread included a link that said "Would you believe Congressman Foggo."  It wasn't made clear that Dusty Foggo, the former #3 at the CIA, had considered running for Congress in the past before being arrested on various corruption charges.  He's clearly not going to be in any campaign at this point, and today he was sentenced to three years in prison for steering CIA contracts to lobbyist pals.

• There is an election next Tuesday in Los Angeles, for Mayor, some City Council seats and a variety of other offices, including City Attorney.