culture
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WHO’S BEEN RUNNING THIS PLACE?
California has become bizarre politically because everyone suddenly turns into a philosopher the second accountability enters the room. -The state is wildly expensive. -People are leaving. -Insurance companies are bailing. -Homelessness is everywhere. -Small businesses are getting squeezed. -The middle class keeps shrinking. -Entire neighborhoods feel financially impossible for normal people now. Everybody sees it.
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SPRAYED TO PERFECTION
California grows an enormous amount of America’s strawberries. It also uses an enormous amount of pesticides to do it. That reality is starting to make more people uncomfortable, especially after reports showing childhood cancer rates in Santa Cruz County are reportedly 38% higher than the California average. The same region sits next to Watsonville and