The important news here is that there is going to be a San Francisco solar power rebate of $3k to build solar, $6k if you build solar from local businesses that use locally-trained employees, $10k if you build solar and are a non-profit, & $30k if you’re building non-affordable housing.

Sounds great to me! This is on top of California’s incentives & the federal solar incentives. How would you not build solar now?

This would mean any agency that receives federal grants would allow their employees to deny birth control if they wanted to. So, if some anti-abortion nut is working for a health agency that would regularly give out birth control as requested/needed and they decide their views don’t support contraception, they are protected if they want to force that on women coming to them for service/medication.

Read the link for all the details. Can CA secede yet?

Author’s Web Site

I glanced over this book at Borders 2 nights ago and it seems to make a few good points about the willful segregation of Americans over time. The author views it as one of the reasons the US is so polarized and why the idea of compromise has disappeared. I’ll probably pick this up as it looks pretty interesting.

I’ll admit I moved to the Bay area primarily because I liked the political and social environment (as well as that’s where the jobs are) and I’m happy for it.

Would I take part in a nationwide de-segregation to heal the national divide? No. I don’t think I would. Do I enjoy political conversation over party lines? If it’s constructive, yes. But I’d still rather have a liberal neighbor than a conservative one.

A few maps, after the jump