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Klamath Basin dam removal needs a science-driven oversight plan

A robust monitoring program is essential to ensure the success of the project to remove four aging hydropower dams on the Klamath River. More than $450 million has been allocated, but little has been allocated to fund the science to evaluate the project.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 23, 2022

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Ethnic studies and civics need to be taught together, not separately

Ethnic studies can teach our children about their commonalities and their unique identities. Civics can teach them how to work toward compromise. California’s plan, however, is for these lessons to be taught separately. That makes no sense.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 20, 2022

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Community involvement is key to solving housing crisis

Communities must focus on policies that prevent displacement of residents, preserve existing housing and increase housing affordable to lower-income residents.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 18, 2022

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Four strategies for managing California’s crucial watershed

California is not doing a good job of tracking changes to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and its watershed. That’s making it even tougher to manage the water that is available for the benefit of the state’s communities, economy and environment.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 17, 2022

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Alarming research on pesticide warrants curbs on its use

Assembly Bill 2146 would ban residential outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides such as imidacloprid because they are contaminating drinking water.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 16, 2022

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Affordable-housing production needs more sugar, less vinegar

To meet California’s dire housing needs, policymakers must put less emphasis on mandates and instead harness the power of incentives.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 13, 2022

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California must untangle snarled process for applying for affordable housing

We need far more affordable housing in our state, but in the meantime, Assembly Bill 1961, which would create a housing database, would make it much easier to apply for what we’ve got.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 11, 2022

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Push state leaders to pass a budget that boosts homeownership

There are growing calls to promote equity for those working Californians who, as a result of this state and nation’s history of discrimination, have higher levels of economic and housing insecurity and limited, if any, intergenerational wealth. California Realtors, Habitat for Humanity and the California Building Industry Association — a housing coalition — echoes those […]

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 10, 2022

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How to keep Roe v. Wade in place

The way to keep reproductive rights intact in California is to embrace what many progressives and Democrats often fear — states’ rights and federalism.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 9, 2022

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Community colleges need to stop pushing remedial-class enrollments

A new bill removes barriers to success by making it clear that community colleges should not require students to repeat math and English classes they passed in high school.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 5월 9, 2022