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While much can and will continue to be said regarding the low voter turnout and results of yesterday’s first ever top two open primary in California, term limit reform was a clear winner statewide.

Business cost survey bodes well for economic climate of SD

Why we still vote on paper in the Social Media Age

Layoffs and pension reform and the economic effects

Voters in San Jose and San Diego overwhelmingly passed ballot initiatives designed to balance local budgets by cutting retirement benefits for city workers.

The analysis, the prognostications and the head-scratching have begun. We tried to gather up as much on as many topics as possible for you to peruse this morning.

This is actually possible, at least if you’re a Capitol Aide. Facebooking and Tweeting could soon be a new job description for aides as part of “official legislative business.”

Five communities in the Bay Area had a chance to flip the tables and ask journalists some tough questions in meet-ups arranged by KQED, The Bay Citizen and California Watch.

Many Californians are frustrated, disenfranchised and increasingly apathetic about the political system.