" Managing expectations is a critical task for CIRM, which will run out of funds in 2017 and which is expected to be asking voters for another multibillion dollar bond measure sometime in the next few years. "

" Union City-based California Civil Rights Foundation must collect more than 807,000 signatures by April to qualify for the November 2012 ballot, the secretary of state's office said. "

MT @AnonyOps: BART is bracing for Monday. A peaceful protest is scheduled for 5PM at Civic Center Station in SF

Established national think-tanks are influential in the development of state policy.

" On May 14, said the LLDF statement, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, “a Christian pro-life organization dedicated to activating and educating high school and college age individuals, was present to protest the dedication of this expansive facility that touts its reputation in the area of human embryonic stem cell research. The group was there to share a message that human embryonic stem cell research kills human lives!”

" “The pro-life activists consulted the Life Legal Defense Foundation concerning their free speech rights prior to the planned demonstration,” said the statement. “Despite several attempts by the police to move the demonstrators away from the dedication ceremony, the Survivors were able to make their voices heard on the UCI campus, and LLDF attorneys were on hand to answer calls and speak with law enforcement on the day of the event. We at LLDF were proud to defend these brave activists’ rights to speak the truth and to stand against the reckless destruction of life at the new facility.” "

" Education lobbyists and stem cell officials are mulling a return to the ballot for more debt. ... Thanks to our structural deficit and what Standard & Poor calls "recurring episodes of insufficient financial liquidity," California has the lowest credit rating of any state. This means that bonds aren't even an affordable solution - taxpayers have to pay about $2 for every $1 borrowed. "

" The field of stem cell science has been criticized for the hyperbole the surrounds it, much of which was evident in the 2004 election campaign that created the California stem cell agency. While some license is expected in any campaign, dubious claims can blow back on those who utter them as voters detect the flim-flam. "

" In five to seven years, the extraordinary work of California’s stem cell scientists and physician/scientists will begin to mature, forever changing the future of human suffering and substantially, while enhancing job growth and economic expansion in the Bay Area. "

" Alan Trounson, president of the California stem cell agency known as CIRM, said in an interview Tuesday that his organization plans similar agreements with state-supported stem cell organizations in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and New York, and already has similar partnerships with agencies in six nations. "

" For 3 1/2 years, the agency focused on the basic groundwork needed to someday use human embryonic stem cells to replace body parts damaged by injury or disease. Such cures are still far in the future. Now the institute has a more immediate goal: boosting therapies that are much further along in development and more often rely on less glamorous adult stem cells. It is concentrating its vast financial resources on projects that could cure conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, AIDS, sickle cell disease and various types of cancer. In shifting its focus, the agency is moving to fill a void known as the "valley of death" -- a point at which projects are typically too commercial to vie for federal funds, yet too risky to entice private investors. "

" Williams later updated the post to report that tea partiers in multiple states, including Iowa, Colorado, and Massachusetts, were calling in to plan "their own creative ruses" for embarrasing the union demonstrators. "

" In California the Republican Party recently issued the following propaganda in its bid to destroy public employee unions. ... The document is full of lies and distortions, like the notion that existing laws protect public employees, "

" 40 percent of the gains went to the wealthiest 1 percent of California taxpayers; More than 70 percent of the gains went to the wealthiest 10 percent of taxpayers; Just 16 percent of the gains went to the bottom 80 percent of Californians; and Only about 3 percent of the gains went to the middle fifth. "

"Now, a group of activists is starting a chapter of the border-watching Minuteman Project in a bid to lure 20- and 30-somethings into what has been a predominantly older movement."

"According to Brian Vike’s UFO reporting site and wire reports, there have been not one, but three UFO sightings here in Southern California within one week."

"Research institutions across Southern California have joined forces to advance stem cell research by establishing the Southern California Stem Cell Scientific Collaboration (SC3)."

"A Maryland lawyer has filed a lawsuit representing... an unborn embryo [blastocyst, actually], against Robert Klein, chairman of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the state-run $3 billion stem cell research funding agency."

"A spokesman for Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, lead author on SB771, said the measure was put off to allow the stem cell agency to finish its regulations for IP, the vehicle for determining how to split up potential largess from stem call products."

"California's stem cell program announced new grants Tuesday worth about $50.5 million, the first awards for constructing laboratory facilities intended to help carry out a $3 billion research initiative under Proposition 71."

"dedicated to advancing education, patient advocacy, and political support for stem cell research. It represents only the views of the Proposition 71 campaign committee organization, originally entitled Californians for Stem Cell Research and Cures."

"U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer visited the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center on Thursday morning to tour the facilities and encourage scientists to continue their work in the face of federal opposition."

"Ontario Premier McGuinty and California Gov. Schwarzenegger will sign deals this week to boost stem cell research... $30 million from the ON Institute for Cancer Research will be earmarked for the Cancer Stem Cell Consortium of researchers in ON and CA."

schedule and discussion agenda, acquired and scanned into PDF by the FTCR

"The two-day meeting of representatives from 10 state stem cell programs is intended to create the Interstate Alliance for Stem Cell Research."

"Now CIRM is free to raise some $300 million per year by selling bonds. Previously it was limited to a $150 million loan from the state government plus $45 million lent by philanthropic groups."

advocacy group in favor of "Judeo-Christian principles in California's laws"; pro-life, opposes embryonic stem cell research, opposes homosexual marriage, etc.

The California Family Bioethics Council, LLC is "a project of the California Family Council". News articles also describe the California Family Bioethics Council as an affiliate or subsidiary of Focus on the Family.

"The plaintiff, the California Family Bioethics Council, had... complained that university officials whose schools were applying for millions in research grants... should not be on its oversight board."

"California's $3 billion stem cell program survived a legal challenge [5/16] when the state Supreme Court rejected appeals by opponents of embryonic cell research, removing the last obstacle to bond sales that state voters approved in 2004."

"The CA Supreme Court on [5/16] denied a review without explanation of an appellate court ruling that unanimously upheld the constitutionality of CA's Proposition 71- approved by voters in 2004 to provide $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research"

"Keirstead will use a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in which a patient's DNA is transplanted into a donated unfertilized egg cell in order to generate stem cell lines with the same genetic makeup of the patient."

"UC Irvine stands to gain millions of dollars now that the final obstacle has been removed to floating an unprecedented $3 billion in state bonds to fund research on human embryonic stem cells."

"UC Irvine will become one of the few centers in the world with a major program in therapeutic cloning, the controversial attempt to generate embryonic stem cells from people who suffer such afflictions as spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's disease."

"A lack of lab space is slowing research to create medical treatments based on embryonic stem cells authorized by California's Proposition 71, scientists say."

"The president of California's $3 billion stem cell agency said that he would resign at month's end rather than in June as previously announced. ... Hall, who was appointed in March 2005, has been the institute's only president since it was created "