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The California Report Magazine

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Campaign Check: Brown and Whitman's Plans to Generate Jobs
New figures from the state on Friday shows our unemployment rate stuck at 12.4 percent in September: that's more than two million Californians without a job.

Is Silicon Valley the Next Detroit?
Amidst sprawling office parks and startups like eBay and Facebook, clean tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are plugging into an emerging electric car industry.

'Curveball'
Toni Stone was the first woman to play professional baseball in the Negro Leagues. She was living in Oakland when she signed with the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953. Stone's story is chronicled in the new book "Curveball." Scott Shafer talked with author Martha Ackmann about Toni Stone and what she was up against as an African American woman playing pro baseball in the era of Jim Crow.

Bringing Back Classic Cocktails
The classic cocktail craze is changing the way people drink. Adventurous bartenders have resurrected vintage cocktails that were in vogue before and during the Prohibition years. The resurgence of interest in the refined beverages started in New York, but San Francisco has become a center of expertise among bartenders and drinkers alike.

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