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Sacramento, California - Though it’s just an hour south of California’s Silicon Valley, the Salinas Valley - better known for churning out lettuce and tomatoes than the world’s newest tech devices — might as well be a world away. In Silicon Valley, companies like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Google reign supreme. In Salinas, the biggest names are those of fruit and vegetable producers - Dole Foods, Chiquita, Driscoll Berries, Taylor Farms.
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Berkeley, California - Just last year, researchers were saying there was no end in sight for California’s recent drought. During the past four years, the driest the state has been in a half-century - reservoirs and lake levels plummeted, leaves on giant trees grew brittle, plants shriveled and groundwater was depleted through excessive pumping for agricultural use.
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Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring January 23, 2016, as Ed Roberts Day in the State of California:
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Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:
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Los Angeles, California - Today, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, in conjunction with eleven California District Attorneys and the nonprofit Center for Environmental Health, announced a landmark settlement with food industry giant Mondelēz International, Inc., formerly Kraft Foods, for selling ginger snap cookies containing lead in excess of California limits without the warning required by California’s Proposition 65. A consent judgment was filed Thursday in Orange County Superior Court and is awaiting approval by a judge.
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Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:
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