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A Pacific Coast College Campus Tour

This video college campus tour takes you to four-year colleges along the Pacific coast from Juneau to Monterey.

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Battle Lines Form in California Over Ambitious Climate Change Bill

The Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act (SB350) increases California’s share of electricity from renewable energy to 50% by 2030.

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How Corporate Welfare Makes People Suffer: California Edition

Corporate welfare is camouflaged in taxes that seem neutral, but give windfalls to entrenched corporations at the expense of people and small businesses.

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One Poem That Saved a Forest

How the friendship between a poet and a timber baron kept a grove of California redwoods from clear-cutting.

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Flight Over Reservoirs Puts California’s Water Debt into Stark Perspective

A new NASA study and a reservoir flyby confirm—California is in water debt.

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When Are We Going Underwater? Faster than Expected: Hansen Sea Level Prediction

Here’s what you need to know.

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Bike Polo Makes Its Way from Seattle to SF

Bike Polo started in Seattle in 1999 and is now a worldwide sport.

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In Gay Marriage Ruling, Justice Kennedy’s California Roots Shine Through

In recent cases on redistricting and gay marriage, Justice Kennedy reveals himself as a vanishing breed of West Coast moderate Republican.

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The Left’s Answer to ALEC: Say Hello to the State Innovation Exchange

Progressives needed an organization like ALEC. Now we have one. It’s called the State Innovation Exchange.

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“State of Jefferson” Wants to Secede

Once again, the “State of Jefferson” wants to secede from California and Oregon. But the name Jefferson doesn’t necessarily refer to our third president. Many residents believe it refers to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.