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Supreme Court Pick: What’s at Stake for California?

01.31.2017
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By Scott Shafer, KQED News Fix/The California Report
California’s U.S. senators are weighing in on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court with cautious concern. Shortly after the nomination was announced, Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted that she was “troubled” by the choice. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who serves on the Judiciary Committee that will first consider the nomination, was more circumspect, suggesting she would take her time evaluating the nominee. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix/The California Report.

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Q&A: History Will Condemn Today’s Leaders for Ignoring Rising Seas

01.31.2017
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We recently caught up with Nate Kauffman, a landscape architecture and urban planning consultant whose work focuses on sea level rise adaptation, at a presentation at the Exploratorium on how cities can better manage development along the waterfront. The talk’s setting was apt: The science museum focused on children’s education sits on stilts just a few feet above the San Francisco Bay along the Embarcadero, a facility almost sure to be flooded within 100 years. » Read more

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Trump vs. California: Is Xavier Becerra About to Face a Conflict He Can’t Resolve?

01.30.2017
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By Laurel Rosenhall, CALmatters
In the 1970s, an ethnically diverse high school in Sacramento sought to quell tensions by training a mix of specially selected students how to resolve conflicts. Among the chosen was a son of Mexican immigrants named Xavier Becerra — a teenager who excelled academically, spent lunch hours playing poker and seemed to possess a knack for defusing fights. Forty years later, an ethnically diverse state — anticipating a new wave of conflict with the federal government — has turned to Becerra as well. This time, the goal is not so much to avoid conflicts as to make sure they are resolved in California’s favor. Read the complete story at CALmatters.

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Researchers: Abandon Neighborhoods, Avoid Flood Zone to Limit Sea Level Rise

01.30.2017
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Understanding the sociology and politics around word ‘retreat’ 
San Francisco is partway through a years-long process of proposing elaborate — and incredibly expensive — engineering fixes to the looming prospect of sea level rise. But the current sketches of a future city buttressed by dikes, levees and seawalls, which could cost tens of billions of dollars over coming decades, overshadow an increasingly accepted alternative: moving away from the waterfront. » Read more

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Is Air Quality in the Bay Area Getting Worse?

01.26.2017
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By Matt Beagle, KQED News Fix
Jenny Wread is one of several KQED listeners who wanted to know more about air quality in the Bay Area. Last summer, she was commuting regularly between Marin and the East Bay and noticed a lot of smog. So she contacted Bay Curious, and we met up for a stroll in Berkeley recently. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

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Language Education Evolves in U.S., California

01.25.2017
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Key developments in American languages, from early U.S. history through the November 2016 passage of state Proposition 58, which ended English-only instruction in California. » Read more

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Questions, Resistance Greet Trump’s Immigration Orders in California

01.25.2017
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By Marisa Lagos, KQED News/The California Report
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Wednesday dealing with immigration policy — including one that seeks to strip federal funding from “sanctuary jurisdictions.”
“Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal of the United States,” he wrote in the order. “These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our republic.”
Read the complete story at KQED News/The California Report.

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Bilingual Renaissance or Reversal?

01.25.2017
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In 1970s San Francisco, my partner, Michelle, attended Marshall Elementary, a public school in the Mission. Raised by a Cuban-born grandmother and mother, she came to Marshall speaking fluent Spanish.
There she received one year of formal bilingual instruction in Spanish — an experience that she would never have again after she transferred from Marshall to another school in the Castro. » Read more