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‘I would have been a great mom’: California finally pays reparations to woman it sterilized
California over decades sterilized thousands of people in state prisons, state-run homes and hospitals. Lawmakers created a reparations program for them, but it has denied most applications.
Salmon swim freely in the Klamath River for 1st time in a century after dams removed
HORNBROOK, Calif. (AP) — For the first time in more than a century, salmon are swimming freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — just days after the largest dam removal project in U.S. history was completed. Researchers determined that Chinook salmon began migrating Oct. 3 into previously inaccessible habitat above the site of the former Iron Gate dam, one of four towering dams demolished as part of a national movement to let rivers return to their natural flow and to restore ecosystems for fish and other wildlife. “It’s been...
Lopez: Prop. 36 saves lives and protects communities by requiring treatment for deadly addictions
As a 35-year veteran of law enforcement I know both the healing power of substance abuse treatment and the danger of releasing those from jail or prison whose untreated addictions drive them to hurt themselves and others with alarming regularity. California once used proven drug courts to require treatment for...
Meet Ruby Lopez, California Central Valley's hottest new executive chef
LODI — One of the hottest new executive chefs in California's Central Valley is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by serving up not only incredible dishes at her restaurant but also an inspiring story of how she got there. The fertile fields of San Joaquin County help grow many things—but there's one you can't see until you visit The Exchange 1874. It's an upscale farm-to-fork restaurant just outside of Lodi in Woodbridge. Inside these rustic walls, it's not the produce being cut or the fresh ingredients being perfected on a plate but a person who sprouted from these fields into the kitchen and...
'People are worried': California county voters fearful after MAGA extremists' takeover
Residents of a California county are growing increasingly concerned as the election draws near — and a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist has been left to run voting administration, according to a report. Shasta County, a community in the far north of California that includes the city of Redding, has been inundated with extremists and conspiracy theorists vying for local control of the government for years. Their ability to actually govern is about to be put to the test in a big way, reported the Guardian. For years, the elections office in Shasta County had been run by Cathy Darling Allen, the onl...
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