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Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:
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Ontario, California - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), chair of the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy (JEDE) held the third in a series of JEDE hearings on the California Economy this Thursday, prior to the opening of the 2015 California Economic Summit in Ontario, California. The goal of the hearing was to examine how an expanding opportunity gap is impacting California and to better explore strategies for creating a more inclusive economy.
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Sacramento, California - First comes the drought, then the deluge. It’s not just that climate change is making the weather more extreme, with hotter dry spells and warmer winters that transform mountain snowpack to water. It’s also that the drought has actually made flooding more likely by diminishing the soil’s capacity to soak up moisture. It’s as if dryness defends its turf against wetness - baking the dirt into an impermeable crust, or turning it into a hydrophobic crumb that causes raindrops to bead off.
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Los Angeles, California - Californians are more likely to see immigrants as positive for American society compared to the U.S. as a whole, according to a USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey. Fifty-nine percent of California voters, compared to 49 percent of U.S. voters, reported that immigrants strengthen society, while 35 percent of California voters and 43 percent of U.S. voters said they weaken it.
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Sacramento, California - California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary Karen Ross is welcoming volunteers with knowledge and expertise regarding the California specialty crop industry to serve as reviewers on the 2016 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Technical Review Committee. This committee reviews, evaluates, and makes recommendations to CDFA on proposals to California’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP).
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Davis, California - When honeybees shift from nurse bees to foragers, or from caring for the brood to foraging for nectar and pollen, the bees “turn on” gene expression with products that protect against microorganisms and degrade toxins, three University of California, Davis, scientists have discovered.
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