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OPINION: We Can Be Better than Spain: Building a Green Economy

OPINION: Brian Leubitz/Calitics

It's a happy day in Spain today.  Sure, the whole World Cup was kind of a big deal.  But there's something else:  Spain has now leapfrogged the United States as the biggest producer of solar power.

OPINION: The Death of Truth: eMeg and the Politics of Lying

Source: Calbuzz

Perhaps it’s just a case of wishful nostalgia, but it seems to us that before the rise of Fox News, Rovian manipulation and the abnegation by certain people of fact-based reality, there was some sort of agreed-upon truth that was adjudicated daily by the mainstream media.

OPINION: Bad Ideas and Lies Aren't Better Than No Ideas

Source: Robert Cruickshank/Calitics

The latest meme spreading among the punditocracy on the governor's race is that Meg Whitman has ideas, but Jerry Brown doesn't - so therefore Whitman has the advantage. There's just one little problem with this view: Whitman's ideas are extremely bad for California and our future.

Here's Steve Lopez writing in the LA Times this weekend:

Jerry Brown rebounds in governor's race

Source: Bob Morris/California Independent Voter Network

Meg Whitman had been surging the past few weeks and Democratic politicos were getting nervous. Was Jerry Brown going to do anything or just get steamrolled by eMeg?

Opinion: Whitman will likely vote no on Dirty Energy Prop, but needs to go further

Source: Jenesse Miller/CLCV Blog

Maybe gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman got tired of being asked tough questions by right-wing radio hosts John and Ken and decided, in an unscripted moment, to give a noncommittal answer on this subject, just to shut them up. Or maybe, since she called herself an environmentalist this week, she thought she’d better back up the claim by saying she would likely vote “No” on the deceptive ballot measure — funded by Texas oil companies — to kill California’s landmark climate law.

OPINION: "Governor Brown Pushes Clean Energy Job Agenda"

Opinion: David Howard/EcoInstitution

More and more political candidates are jumping on the bandwagon of going green by including environmentally-friendly plans into their platform, pitching even far-reaching goals. One addition to these “eco-candidates” is Jerry Brown, a Democratic gubernatorial nominee who wants to create clean energy jobs.

OPINION: "Harsh Realm: The Meg Whitman Program for Future California"

Opinion: William Bradley/Huffington Post

Billionaire Meg Whitman keeps plugging what she says is a program for California's future as a key reason to make her governor of the nation's largest state. She must be counting on people not paying attention to what her program actually is.