Almost all of our cities are built on top of prexisting waterways that now "flow" under our feet and roads. The water is still largely there but it's subsumed in the concrete and pavement. We don't even think about it. San Francisco is trying to...
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Hardly surprising that water theft becomes endemic during a drought. With all too scarce water so vital to the survival of California as we know it, this can actually be.
I've talked before about how national parks, and especially the classic nature parks of the American West, are whitened places, with indigenous histories erased and indigenous people evicted. That's certainly.
Next week, I have to attend a conference in Newport Beach, California. This is pretty much the only area of the West I have never been to. In fact, I haven't been to the LA area at all except a quick trip to Pasadena in...
California takes a significant step in what I think should be a movement to ban the Confederate flag: Starting next year, the Confederate flag will no longer be available for.
This is a fascinating essay on the terrible wrath white colonialism has created in the Yosemite Valley. There are a couple of facets. First, in the early 1850s, whites committed.
The California drought has not only devastated owners, but the workers who rely upon migrant farm work to survive: On July 11, Camacho was working at a health resource fair in Mendota, a rural farming community west of Fresno. Of the 100 or so farmworkers...
In the best of situations, bottled water is an idiotic industry in the United States given the safety of municipal water supplies. This is not the best of situations: Nestlé.
The whites of Murrieta, California sure know how to celebrate July 4. They kick it old school, through expressions of white supremacy. MURRIETA, Calif. — Suddenly, this city in the.
Americans at their finest here: Three buses carrying 140 undocumented immigrants are heading back to San Diego County after being met by angry protesters at the Murrieta Border Patrol facility Tuesday afternoon. The group was flown from Texas to San Diego Tuesday morning and quickly...
The explosion in temp work has happened because employers see it as a profitable way to exploit labor, getting rid of troublemakers, avoiding legal responsibility, and keeping wages and benefits.
On May 10, 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines met at Promontory Point, Utah. The railroad itself was key to the growth.