HOT:  The California legislature’s effort to repeal Proposition 209 continues apace.  Despite my written testimony before the Assembly Appropriations Committee showing that, over time, Prop 209 has saved the state at least a BILLION DOLLARS in public contracting costs, the Appropriation Committee reported the bill out Wednesday afternnoon.  (Testimony before that committee is limited to a bill’s fiscal impact.)  The issue now goes to the full Assembly.

Also reported out was a bill to study slave reparations.  (Note that California was never a slave state.)