More Carole Migden driving news! The Sacramento Bee (which, we'll admit, we were only perusing to see if there were some more pictures of the whales) has found a woman who's still angry about the time Carole Migden totaled her car back in 1996 (Migden's first year in the State Assembly, and a year before Migden was diagnosed with leukemia). "It's really odd at my age that I just can't get over it," the woman......

It's looking like a dreaded nut ring that has been terrorizing the Central Valley has been broken up as police arrested the two ringleaders on Sunday. The thieves, named Alvin and Simon, were caught with about $400,000 dollars worth of nuts on them. They were caught on Sunday when an alert factory worker noticed that several people were taking nuts out of boxes marked with the names of Central Valley nut companies and putting them into unmarked boxes. After about eleven people were taken into questioning, only two of them were charged....

Funny, we didn't see this in the Examiner, Chron or Sacramento Bee. Yesterday, the state's Senate Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Bill 849, the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act," by a vote of five to two. While it's still to early to shout, "Yay for the Gays," it's a big tactical victory for assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who gutted a languishing agriculture bill to get this reviewed before the Assembly takes recess......

The Governator delivered his State of the State last night. We were stuck at work so we missed it and had to read the transcript and listen to the audio of the speech and the reaction from Don Perata [RealPlayer from the Sacramento Bee]. Like any salesman, Schwarzenegger led off with a telling joke: "In these State of the State speeches, governors often begin by listing their accomplishments of the past year. I will do......