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California voter registration en route to a record
150 150 Ed Coghlan

Over 1 million Californians filed voter applications online this fall and over 380,000 of them have already been qualified. All told nearly 700,000 Californians registered to vote in the 45 days leading up to the October 22nd deadline.

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The realignment story in California is still being written
150 150 Ed Coghlan

“The hard truth is, despite what you hear from many people on both sides of the argument, we just don’t know yet,” Sharon Aungst, director of California Forward’s Partnership for Community Excellence told the Association for Criminal Justice Research in California.

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Looking at California’s jobs numbers from a step back
150 150 John Guenther

What does a drop in California unemployment but few jobs created mean?

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Redwood Coast injecting life into local economy
150 150 Justin Ewers

As recently as a decade ago, the sprawling redwood north of California, a region the size of Connecticut and New Jersey combined, had no broadband access, difficult transportation challenges across hundreds of miles of mountains, and a generation of workers who found themselves tempted to tell their children to move elsewhere to find good jobs.

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Santa Ana bolsters transparency efforts by approving Sunshine Ordinance
150 150 Alexandra Bjerg

Earlier this week, the City of Santa Ana agreed to let the sunshine in. On Monday the city council approved the community driven “Sunshine Ordinance” designed to bring transparency to City Hall.

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The new, new economy on California’s Redwood Coast
150 150 Justin Ewers

Rural economic development faces different challenges, same goals

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