This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversation with Jenny Jones and Jen Toy. They are gardeners, landscape architects, and caring humans who are taking the idea of a test plot to the community level.
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A year after the Dixie Fire, survivors are working to aid victims of another devastating blaze. Also, the city of Chico’s Pallet shelter site has served about 175 people since its opening, and the McKinney Fire has burned more than 60,000 acres and was 60% contained. -
Newsom’s priorities — for the last three weeks of the session — include ramping up targets for greenhouse gas reductions and clean electricity, and creating safety zones around new oil wells.
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The Biden administration is allowing the shot to be given between layers of skin — a method that only requires a fifth of the full dose — in order to increase vaccinations and slow the outbreak.
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Siskiyou County’s sheriff is investigating the media’s conduct in the McKinney Fire zone. Also, a new state Senate committee on the monkeypox virus will hold its first meeting today, and a report from the Legislative Analyst's Office says the California Employment Development Department is too focused on fraud.
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The state’s Employement Development Department and unemployment insurance program is too focused on rooting out fraud and minimizing business costs than providing people with timely benefits, according to the LAO report.
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Poorer students still get the least qualified teachers, but California has made progress
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Officials say about a quarter of the buildings destroyed in the Carr Fire that were located in unincorporated areas of Shasta County have been rebuilt. Also, an exhibit of the Dixie Fire Stories Project is featured in Quincy, and federal health officials are considering breaking single doses of the monkeypox vaccine into smaller doses to stretch the current supply.
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Proposition 1, the constitutional amendment that would enshrine abortion in California’s constitution, would also lock in a right that has gotten less attention: the right to “choose or refuse” contraception.
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The number worn by the 11-time champion, civil rights activist and Hall of Fame player and coach is being permanently retired by all 30 teams. Russell died July 31 at age 88.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland commented for the first time Thursday on the FBI raid that took place at Trump's Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, earlier this week.
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Revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks to minimize COVID-19's disruption of daily life while conceding that the pandemic isn't over.
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The confrontation at the FBI's Ohio field office comes as officials warn of an increase in threats against federal agents following a search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
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The Amazon Prime series, co-created by Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham, is both a loving descendant of the 1992 film of the same name, and an ambitious effort to address its conspicuous gaps.
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"I'm always concerned about threats to law enforcement," FBI Director Christopher Wray said. "Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you're upset with."
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