Last December, when several provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire, Congress instead extended the sunset clause to the end of February.  With this extension, as with any extension, one would assume that further debate was their primary motive.  As with previous extensions of the Act, serious debate addressing public grievances was never undertaken. 

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a San Francisco based non-profit international digital rights advocacy organization.  They are veterans in the fight for internet privacy.  The list of their lawsuits is astonishing, and includes Jewel v. NSA. 

Rob Brown, California Banker’s Association CEO comments on California’s banks. Although many banks are accepting registered warrants, they do not want to interfere or further hold up the budget process. No doubt, that would be contrary to the governor’s intentions when he compelled the resorting to warrants.

California auto manufacturers- oops, rather, the one that’s left- anticipate(s) two bills (ABX4 31 and SB 830) which will, if passed, exempt them from sales tax on “improvements and retooling” of their plant(s). Although the only plant left has no plans to do so, it may one day choose to adapt to the market place and produce more energy efficient technology.