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These Rural Californians Want to Secede. Newsom’s Maps Would Pair Them With Bay Area Liberals

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Over several rivers and through even more woods, flags advocating secession from California flutter above hills dotted with cattle, which outnumber people at least sixfold. This ranching region with a libertarian streak might have more in common with...

Showdown: State Says It’s Time for Water Interests to Show Their Cards on Subsidence

Ferocious over-pumping that has caused huge swaths of the San Joaquin Valley to sink, damaging key water arteries including the Friant-Kern Canal and California Aqueduct must stop, according to the state Department of Water Resources. It’s one of the main reasons the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was passed in 2014....

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