Chris Reed
• Media in the tank for state high-speed rail
• Lockyer defends record as AG
• UC students were protesting over fee hikes they don?t have to pay
• Will Pringle, gov's aide go along with rail authority parsing?
• Jerry Brown's single-payer stonewalling: More from Nexis
• Best analysis yet of why Obama's faltering
• Benedict Arnold, Chapter 237: He may back Jerry Brown
• America's Finest Blog: 1-23-2010
• School board members can?t spin away their original sin
• Jerry Brown endorsed a single-payer system in 1992

Sacramento Bee
• Bay Area is ground zero for California effort to legalize pot
• CSU to fund 8,100 extra classes for fall
• Housing crunch has human toll
• Couple held in shackle case want to write their kids
• Pyramid's view amazes
• Oakland group bids to keep A's in town
• Stockton judge stabbed -- attacker slain by cop

San Francisco Chronicle
• Insurer may have violated law, report reveals
• Super Bowl ads get weird - many sans pants
• WWII program enlisted for war on child obesity
• Larry Ellison gets 3rd crack at America's Cup

The Business Insider
• Federal Investigators Are Denied Access To The Site Of The Goldman Power Plant Explosion (GS)
• New iPhone Could Be 1/4-Inch Taller (AAPL)
• Cozen To Cravath: You Can't Drop Your Clients Like A Hot Potato
• Yahoo's New "Network Distribution" Search-Ad Tool Off To Okay Start, But Advertisers Not Yet Switching From Google
• NBC's Announces Season Finale Dates For The Office, 30 Rock, SVU, More (GE)
• Soc Gen Tells You Exactly How To Get Rich Trading The World Cup
• Law Students Are "Mortgaging" Their Future And Law Schools Should Make Sure They Know It
• 3 Reasons Pay-With-Facebook Won't Squash All The Other Payments Providers
• Doug Kass: The US Consumer Is Sick And You Should Go Short Retail With Impunity
• Judge In Bank Of America Case Grills SEC Lawyers

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
• More Reading: Niall Ferguson, Euro Depression, Nevada, etc.
• Economists, Crises, and Cartoons
• Weekend Reading: Greenspan, EM Bonds, Cash-in Refis, China, etc.
• Mauldin: A Bubble in Search of a Pin
• Random Fiscal Factoid: Alt Universe U.S.?
• Readings: Dollar, Britain, Lotteries, Bailouts, etc.
• The Road to Recovery?
• Ken, I Thought You Said We Were Buying a Laundromat
• Consumers Continue to Choose Credit Cards Over Mortgages
• London Real Estate Back to Defying Gravity

Dealbreaker
• Write-Offs: 02.08.10
• Bonus Watch: Greenwich Connecticut Is Feeling Good Again
• Don't Drink The Water: The Great CDS Colonial Reversal
• US Will Neva, Eva Lose AAA Rating, Says Tim Geithner
• PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENT
• Citi's Big Idea
• A Beauty Queen Speaks
• Blind Item: Which Bank CEO Likes Get Kicked In The Balls?
• Dick Bove Defends Ken Lewis

Los Angeles Times
• Michael Jackson's personal physician pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter
• Anthem Blue Cross asked to justify controversial rate hikes
• Dow closes below 10,000 for first time in 3 months
• VA is prodded to give more aid to female vets
• Rep. John Murtha of Pa. dies at 77
• So Gaints! ... Er, go Saints! ... New Orleans has a headache
• La Ca?ada Flintridge digs out as a new storm nears
• Study: Moms over 40 nearly twice as likely to have autistic children
• Tracy Porter carries it home for a long-suffering city
• Iran says it will build 10 nuclear plants, beef up military

Slashdot
• Virus-Detecting "Lab On a Chip" Developed At BYU
• Google Shooting For Smartphone Universal Translator
• New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries
• Verizon Blocking 4chan
• A Reflection On Sun Executive Payouts For Failure
• Turns Out You Actually Can Be Bored To Death
• Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring
• What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts?
• SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking
• Nexus One First Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate"

Dan Walters
• Dan Walters: Logrolling lives large in California budget
• Dan Walters: Pro sports don't merit public funds
• Dan Walters: Politicians steeped in hypocrisy
• Dan Walters: As feds stiff state, budget crisis deepens
• Dan Walters: California GOP race turns nasty and exciting
• Dan Walters: Is California green tech salvation or a pipe dream?
• Dan Walters: California gay marriages may hinge on one man
• Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger renews old battle over lawsuits
• Dan Walters: Will California be the next Massachusetts?
• Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger's legacy is written in red ink

Little Green Footballs
• Meghan McCain Blasts Tom Tancredo's 'Innate Racism'
• RIP, Rep. John Murtha
• Hamas Leader Goes to Russia, Complains
• Monday Morning Craziness: Orly Taitz Says Obama Has 39 Social Security Numbers
• Video: The Coming of the Plug-In Hybrids
• The Significance of the A4
• Sunday Afternoon Music: Pat Metheny, 'Here to Stay'
• CRU Scientist Got Death Threats
• Palin Thinking of Presidency in 2012, Cites Pat Buchanan
• No Teleprompter for Sarah

New York Times
• Paperwork Hinders Airlifts of Ill Haitian Children
• Iran?s Nuclear Plans Prompt New Calls for Sanctions
• E.U. Slow to React to Toyota Safety Problems
• Sri Lanka Arrests Defeated Candidate
• Ukraine Opposition Leader Appears to Win Vote
• Gates Opposes Arms Sale to Russia
• Asia Sails Smoothly Through Debt Waters

DealBook - NYT
• CIT to Repay $750 Million of Debt
• Report Says Value of Media M.&A. Fell 49%
• PNC's Bailout Warrants May Fetch $253 Million
• Judge Presses S.E.C. on BofA Settlement
• 10th Person in Galleon Insider Case Pleads Guilty
• 2 More Firms Settle in N.Y. Pension Fund Inquiry
• Feinberg Says He Talked With Blankfein on Pay
• Once Again, Seeing the Shadow of Madoff
• Liberty Global Said to Scour Europe for Deals
• Fed Said to Prepare Plans for Eventual Tightening

San Jose Mercury News
• Google airs 'Parisian Love' ad on most-watched Super Bowl
• ACLU accuses Fresno City College health instructor of religion lessons
• Report: Toyota plans to recall 300,000 Priuses
• Thirdhand smoke forms indoor carcinogens, Lawrence Berkeley lab scientists report
• Burglars making numerous bathroom stops on UC Berkeley campus
• Top Canadian military official charged with murder
• San Jose man in critical condition after being struck by car
• Concord boy, 16, and man, 38, die in unrelated shootings in Oakland
• Drunken Super Bowl bet leads to deadly shooting in Antioch
• Michael Jackson's doctor pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charge

KQED Capitol Notes
• The Lite Guv Intrigue Continues
• Podcast: The Wannabes
• GOP Foil, Thy Name is Arnold
• Maldo Moves To Round Two
• Maldo: No On Oil Drilling Plan
• Podcast: Warming Up
• We Don't Need No (Budget) Education
• Leg Analyst: Guv's 'Odd Couple' Too Odd
• Schwarzenegger: "Look Beyond" One's Principles
• Podcast: Polls & Potshots

Schneier on Security
• The Limits of Visual Inspection
• More Details on the Chinese Attack Against Google
• New Attack on Threefish
• Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cookie
• 10 Cartoons about Airport Security
• Scaring the Senate Intelligence Committee
• World's Largest Data Collector Teams Up With Word's Largest Data Collector
• Security and Function Creep
• Anonymity and the Internet
• More Movie Plot Terrorist Threats

Deadline Hollywood
• Paradigm Comings and Goings
• DDA Names New Head Of Los Angeles Office
• Hot Trailer: 'Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time'
• Will Studios Catch Soderbergh Virus Thriller?
• More Revised Universal Movie Release Dates
• NBC Announces Season Finales (But Why?)
• Poll: Most Memorable Super Bowl Movie Ads
• SUNDAY SHOCKER! CBS' Super Bowl XLIV Most Watched Program In TV History; Lead-Out 'Undercover Boss' Breaks Records, Too
• OSCAR DILEMMA: Why Bother Campaigning If It's A 2-Horse Race? Studios Spending Less