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Volatile weather creates dramatic changes for California farmers | Center for Investiga... - 1 views

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    What will change in agriculture mean to the economy and politics of California?
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Yellow fever mosquito detected in California - 2 views

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    Here's a possible trend NO one could have imagined. "The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue." 
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Holy Crap, Self-Driving Cars Are Now Legal in California - 0 views

  • Just moments ago, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into effect SB1298, effectively paving the way for driverless cars in California. For a state that relies more heavily on cars than any other, this is hugely significant when it comes to traffic and road congestion.
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    How could I not add this to our discussion?
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Zakaria: Incarceration nation - Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs - 0 views

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    California spent $9.6 billion on prisons, versus $5.7 billion on higher education. Since 1980, California has built one college campus; it's built 21 prisons. The state spends $8,667 per student per year. It spends about $50,000 per inmate per year.
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Siskiyou County moves toward split from California » Redding Record Searchlight - 1 views

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    Will California get a bit smaller?
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California Enters Regional Climate Pact: The California Report | The California Report - 0 views

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    CA joins regional climate pact with OR, WA and British Columbia.
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A letter from 2056: Dystopian L.A. gives you everything you love to hate, only more of ... - 0 views

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    In 2056, L.A. is a dystopian city with even worse traffic. OK, Angelenos and Californias, what do you think about this version of our future?
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California's changing face, through centuries of books | California Watch - 0 views

  • "The browser is designed to enable you to examine the frequency of words (banana) or phrases ('United States of America') in books over time,"
  • 5.2 million books – about 4 percent of all published books.
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    Google's Ngram Viewer
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NCCP | The Changing Face of Child Poverty in California - 0 views

  • Despite the national decline in child poverty and low-income rates in the United States since the early 1990s, the rates in California have surpassed those of the nation.
  • a large and growing majority of poor children live in working families, and as many of California’s poor children live in two-parent as in single-parent families.
  • Almost half of all California’s children are immigrants, and the large majority of these immigrants are Hispanic.
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  • Poverty rates for Hispanic children increased from 30 to 34 percent, an increase of 14 percent. Poverty rates for African-American children went from 32 to 24 percent. At the same time, the poverty rates for white children stayed nearly flat at about 11 percent.
  • The poverty rate for Asian-American children was 19 percent during 1996–2000.
  • Children in two-parent families in California are more likely to be poor than they were two decades ago, but they continue to have much lower poverty rates than children living with single mothers.
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      all relevant stats for our Domain work... have noted this file in Dropbox as well as a resource
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We're Still Here, Still Golden « Zócalo Public Square - 0 views

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    Good news for California - not quite the exodus we've been hearing about.  
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Why California Is Suddenly Adding Jobs Faster Than Texas - Jobs & Economy - The Atlanti... - 1 views

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    Good news for CA re: jobs, as long as our housing market recovers and grows...
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Delta water tunnel plan presents California with tough choices » Redding Reco... - 1 views

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    Future of CA water
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Proposed Budget Cuts Could Affect 12,000 Caregivers Statewide - California Healthline - 0 views

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    How can, or should, museums look to help with the cuts coming to caregiving support. Musuem partnerships with care centers?
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Calif. sinks to 41st on kids' well-being - SFGate - 0 views

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    The state now spends more than $1,000 less per student than it did in 2007, according to the California Budget Project, a nonprofit public policy research group. Is this the beginning of the end for K-12?
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Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California - New York Times - 1 views

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    "megadroughts likely to occur"
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'Six Californias' plan difficult but doable, assessment shows - Washington Times - 0 views

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    I seem to remember this as a scenario at one of our Leaders of the Future workshops...
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ArtPlace America Names 97 Finalists for Creative Placemaking Grants | ArtPlace America - 3 views

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    Lots of third spaces in the making here. Look at all the California finalists!
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Google Glass sparks fight at California bar - Wire Technology - The Sacramento Bee - 0 views

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    Probably not the last Google Glass sparked fight
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