Afternoon Roundup

• Court upholds California's stem cell initiative. L.A. Times.


• Schwarzenegger dodges U.S. Senate question again. Or rather, says he honestly doesn't know whether he would run for the office. S.F. Chronicle.


• New report based on Census data shows immigrants have boosted wages of California workers "It's certainly not a negative." SacBee.


• New legislation that would make companies developing genetically engineered crops liable for damages if their work results in contamination of other fields. AP.


• Full text of Chief Justice Ron George's state of the judiciary address. "Courts have been forced to shut down civil courtrooms — in some cases countywide — because criminal cases facing dismissal have priority under the law and there was an insufficient number of judges to handle all the cases."


• President George W. Bush gets a laugh at governor's confab at the expense of his brother.