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And so even though there were a number of voters who were generically in favor of legalizing marijuana, they voted against it,” says Nalder. “I suspect [this year] most voters haven’t gotten out their ballot guide yet and done their homework, and so it could change if they don’t like some of the details in this one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Prop64Poll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View California Counts Survey_Part 1 on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/323194462/California-Counts-Survey-Part-1#from_embed\">California Counts Survey_Part 1\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Southern California Public Radio's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/publisher/71308244/Southern-California-Public-Radio#from_embed\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a> on Scribd\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe id=\"doc_44862\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/323194462/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-i3GoaTS8tY8PQC0xszmI&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction\u003c/strong>: Our original story stated that the poll sought to capture the sentiments of all Californians rather than likely or registered voters. We based that statement on information provided by the Institute for Social Research at Sacramento State, which conducted the survey. While most of the poll's questions were asked of a representative sample of Californians, the poll's author later informed us that only the responses of registered voters were used for questions about the November election, including the U.S. Senate race and Proposition 64. We have updated our story and apologize for the error.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include additional information regarding the methodology of the survey.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts, a statewide public media election collaborative, contracted with the CALSPEAKS Opinion Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, Sacramento State University, to conduct an extensive survey of Californians’ electoral and public policy attitudes.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Institute for Social Research at Sacramento State fielded the survey online and through the mail from Aug. 15 to 24, 2016 using the CALSPEAKS survey panel. It yielded 915 completed surveys and 44 partially completed surveys. CALSPEAKS obtains a representative sample of Californians, stratified by the five major regions in the state. For information on the methodology, please visit: \u003ca href=\"http://www.csus.edu/isr/calspeaks/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.csus.edu/isr/calspeaks/\u003c/a>. For questions about the November election, (the U.S. Senate race and propositions 57, 63 and 64), results reflect registered voters only.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The margin of error for any individual survey question is equal to or less than +/- 4 percentage points for the overall sample. However, the margins of error are larger if focusing on smaller subgroups, especially racial or ethnic subgroups. These are equal or less than +/- 16 percentage points for African-Americans, and 10 percentage points for Latinos or those of \"other races/ethnicities\" (including Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and those of mixed race/ethnicity). The numbers, however, have been weighted to reflect California¹s population and are valid for comparisons across the sub-groups.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration with four public media organizations in California to cover the 2016 election. This includes \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Harris and Sanchez are Democrats. This is the first time two members of the same party have faced each other in a statewide runoff since California adopted the top-two primary. They are running to replace another Democrat, retiring U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll also asked registered voters' opinions of Proposition 64 -- the November ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana. It found 71 percent in favor of legalization, with 26 percent opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg title=\"Cal Counts Poll -Social -02\" src=\"http://www.capradio.org/media/7424839/calcountspoll-social-02.png\" alt=\"Cal Counts Poll -Social -02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But support for marijuana legalization could decrease somewhat as initiative campaigns begin in earnest. Nalder says a majority of Californians initially supported legalization in 2010, but voters turned against details in Proposition 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People thought it wasn’t prudent in a lot of ways. And so even though there were a number of voters who were generically in favor of legalizing marijuana, they voted against it,” says Nalder. “I suspect [this year] most voters haven’t gotten out their ballot guide yet and done their homework, and so it could change if they don’t like some of the details in this one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Prop64Poll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View California Counts Survey_Part 1 on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/323194462/California-Counts-Survey-Part-1#from_embed\">California Counts Survey_Part 1\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Southern California Public Radio's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/publisher/71308244/Southern-California-Public-Radio#from_embed\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a> on Scribd\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe id=\"doc_44862\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/323194462/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-i3GoaTS8tY8PQC0xszmI&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction\u003c/strong>: Our original story stated that the poll sought to capture the sentiments of all Californians rather than likely or registered voters. We based that statement on information provided by the Institute for Social Research at Sacramento State, which conducted the survey. While most of the poll's questions were asked of a representative sample of Californians, the poll's author later informed us that only the responses of registered voters were used for questions about the November election, including the U.S. Senate race and Proposition 64. 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For information on the methodology, please visit: \u003ca href=\"http://www.csus.edu/isr/calspeaks/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.csus.edu/isr/calspeaks/\u003c/a>. For questions about the November election, (the U.S. Senate race and propositions 57, 63 and 64), results reflect registered voters only.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The margin of error for any individual survey question is equal to or less than +/- 4 percentage points for the overall sample. However, the margins of error are larger if focusing on smaller subgroups, especially racial or ethnic subgroups. These are equal or less than +/- 16 percentage points for African-Americans, and 10 percentage points for Latinos or those of \"other races/ethnicities\" (including Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and those of mixed race/ethnicity). 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"disqusTitle": "A Flying Fish That Transformed the Sierra -- for Better and for Worse",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s no road in California quite like Highway 395. For more than 200 miles, the Sierra Nevada rises up alongside the route, a towering granite wall bordering starkly beautiful desert valleys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are driving 395, chances are you’ve come to fish for trout in one of the area’s alpine lakes. Fishing is synonymous with life in the communities that dot the highway, and it’s responsible for luring nearly half of all tourists to Inyo and Mono counties. But there’s almost nothing natural about trout in the Eastern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281145916\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who are fishing in the High Sierra don’t realize that the fish weren’t native,” says Roland Knapp, a biologist with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucnrs.org/reserves/sierra-nevada-aquatic-research-laboratory.html\" target=\"_blank\">UC Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab\u003c/a>. He says they also don’t know the fish were likely born in hatcheries and dropped into the lakes from airplanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We witness this firsthand on an early morning in July at a tiny airport outside Bishop, a four-hour drive north of L.A., a six-hour drive from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An airplane idles on the tarmac, and employees from the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Hatcheries/Fish-Springs\" target=\"_blank\">Fish Springs Hatchery\u003c/a> transfer rainbow trout fingerlings from a pickup into special hoppers built into this King Air 200’s tiny interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \u003ccite>(Lacy Jane Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon the plane is flying uncomfortably close to snowy Sierra peaks, swooping in and out of lake basins. It feels like a video game, with the plane diving down to 200 feet above the surface of each lake, then slowing down. Water splashes when the pilots in the cockpit open the hoppers, releasing thousands of baby trout, and there’s an audible, high-pitched whine as the fish fly through the air. The pilots pull up from the lake, clear the valley wall on the other side of the basin, and look back to see if they hit their mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>erial stocking got its start in the mid-1940s, when lots of skilled pilots came home from World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our chief pilot was a B-24 Liberator pilot down in the South Pacific,” says fish biologist Phil Pister, who worked for the California Department of Fish and Game (now Department of Fish and Wildlife) for 40 years, managing 1,000 bodies of water in the Eastern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pister says that stocking fish by plane is much more efficient than loading them into containers and hauling them into the backcountry on horses and mules, which is how it used to be done. The first introduction of trout to the Eastern Sierra that he’s heard of came in 1876, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories3/golden_invitation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the owner\u003c/a> of a high-country \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories1/stevens_timber.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sawmill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Most people who are fishing in the High Sierra don’t realize that the fish weren’t native.'\u003ccite>Roland Knapp,\u003cbr>\nUC Sierra Nevada Aquatic Lab\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He brought 13 golden trout in a coffee pot on his horse,” says Pister. A dozen are said to have survived the trip and were planted in a nearby creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners and prospectors released trout in lakes and streams near their work sites for food. Mountaineers did, too, creating a food source for their future explorations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, fishing became more and more associated with recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, \"An Entirely Synthetic Fish,\" evolutionary biologist Anders Halverson says that, among well-to-do men living in East Coast industrialized cities, \"the outdoor life became \u003cem>de rigeur\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors recommended more outdoor time, and tourists visited wilderness resorts or camped in remote places. It was thought, Halverson says, that “to really reconnect with their virility, men needed to capture and kill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though far from urban centers, fishing became more connected to recreation in the Eastern Sierra, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a group in Bishop called the Rainbow Club. Their sole mission was to introduce rainbow trout into the high country,” says Roland Knapp. “You had the Sierra Club doing a lot of the early fish stocking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, government agencies became the major player managing hatcheries and transportation, transforming a once fishless landscape into one brimming with trout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067478\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1920x1168.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-960x584.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n a recent summer morning, Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz drives a big truck up 395 toward Convict Lake, outside the town of Mammoth Lakes. It’s carrying tanks filled with water and 2,400 pounds of fish for stocking into roadside lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we go out here, people are all excited and happy. You’re almost like rock stars,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if on cue, a huge Suburban with two coolers strapped on the back pulls up alongside his truck. The two guys inside wave, and give Ambriz big smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you were little, do you remember that truck with that funky clown music? ‘Ice cream! Ice cream!’ We’re like the big ice cream truck for adults,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the lake, Ambriz backs up and releases 3,600 fish in a long gush of water. They swim around wildly once they hit the surface. Gayle Odell and her family, visiting from Orange County, watch and clap. For them, she says, fishing offers “fun, good conversations, getting away from the problems of the world. Just enjoying the beauty that God created. And rainbow trout is delicious. It’s good eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11070528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11070528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An hour south, Seth Blackamore steers a boat to the quiet end of South Lake, where trout are biting. He runs the dock at South Lake for Parchers, \u003ca href=\"http://parchersresort.net/\" target=\"_blank\">a century-old resort\u003c/a> that caters to anglers. He says the fishing attracts all kinds of people: honeymooners, retirees and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get three generations worth of father, son, and son coming up, just passing down those memories, showing them what their fathers showed them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anglers are vital to the local economy. Fishing is such an important source of jobs and income that communities pay extra to make sure nearby lakes are stocked for recreational fishing. The Chamber of Commerce in Bishop pays to have the Pleasant Valley Reservoir and Lower Owens River stocked year-round, and Mono County spends over $100,000 annually to stock 21 bodies of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he introduction of trout into Eastern Sierra waters hasn’t worked out as well for native species, says biologist Knapp. He and a team spent much of the 1990s surveying 7,000 Sierra lakes, ponds and puddles, looking at the trout’s impact on native species like the mountain yellow-legged frog. They found that lakes with trout had no more native frogs or invertebrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trout basically eat themselves out of house and home. They will eat anything they can wrap their jaws around, understandably,” Knapp says. “They’re predators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing attention to the damage that trout were causing made Knapp pretty unpopular among fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were certainly people who didn’t want to hear the data we were providing. I remember being called the Trout Anti-Christ in one public meeting,” he says. “And I totally understand why somebody might get upset about some scientist saying, ‘Hey, these fish are having negative effects,’ and they’re talking about your favorite lake to go fishing in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067540\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067540\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Pister made a similar discovery in the early 1960s, when he was a new employee at the Department of Fish and Game. Two visiting fish biologists asked him to lead them on an excursion to Fish Slough, a desert wetlands outside Bishop. Their thinking was that water diversions and the introduction of trout had killed off all native fish, including one called the Owens pupfish, but they wanted to make sure. They started mucking around in the marsh and discovered a small remnant population of the small native fish. From that moment, Pister became committed to pushing for more balance between maintaining recreational fisheries and stewarding fragile native species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Owens pupfish] are important because they’re part of the biota that evolved here since the beginning of time,” says Pister. “We showed up later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, how to find a balance between native species and recreation? “There’s no doubt in my mind that fish and fishing provides a very direct connection between people and the land,” says biologist Knapp, “and sometimes you have to trade off what’s best for native species and what’s best for that more challenging thing to define which is: How we relate to this landscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DFW is still committed to recreational fishing, and their employees plant nearly 1.7 million fish a year in the Eastern Sierra, but nearby national parks stopped planting trout in the '90s, and the state has significantly scaled back aerial stocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Knapp have advised agencies that eradicating trout from some lakes -- mostly using gill nets and electroshockers (and, occasionally, Rotenone, a chemical pesticide) -- allows for the recovery of native frogs and other species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The native frog] populations will increase exponentially really quickly,” says Jim Erdman, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist. “It’s amazing sometimes how well that works, just to remove some fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The native frogs face another major challenge: chytrid fungus. “It’s gotten more complicated since the mid-1990s, when we thought that fish were the [only] major contributor to frog declines,” says Knapp. “So we’re just trying to now find again another balance between all these different stressors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result of balancing the desire for recreation with the needs of native species is the Owens Valley Native Fish Sanctuary, in Fish Slough. It’s one of a handful of spots where the Owens pupfish still live, now protected, in the middle of a region where millions of trout are planted every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Support for this story comes from the Fund for Environmental Journalism and California Humanities. Vicky Ly did additional research for this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An airplane idles on the tarmac, and employees from the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Hatcheries/Fish-Springs\" target=\"_blank\">Fish Springs Hatchery\u003c/a> transfer rainbow trout fingerlings from a pickup into special hoppers built into this King Air 200’s tiny interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \u003ccite>(Lacy Jane Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon the plane is flying uncomfortably close to snowy Sierra peaks, swooping in and out of lake basins. It feels like a video game, with the plane diving down to 200 feet above the surface of each lake, then slowing down. Water splashes when the pilots in the cockpit open the hoppers, releasing thousands of baby trout, and there’s an audible, high-pitched whine as the fish fly through the air. The pilots pull up from the lake, clear the valley wall on the other side of the basin, and look back to see if they hit their mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>erial stocking got its start in the mid-1940s, when lots of skilled pilots came home from World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our chief pilot was a B-24 Liberator pilot down in the South Pacific,” says fish biologist Phil Pister, who worked for the California Department of Fish and Game (now Department of Fish and Wildlife) for 40 years, managing 1,000 bodies of water in the Eastern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pister says that stocking fish by plane is much more efficient than loading them into containers and hauling them into the backcountry on horses and mules, which is how it used to be done. The first introduction of trout to the Eastern Sierra that he’s heard of came in 1876, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories3/golden_invitation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the owner\u003c/a> of a high-country \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories1/stevens_timber.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sawmill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Most people who are fishing in the High Sierra don’t realize that the fish weren’t native.'\u003ccite>Roland Knapp,\u003cbr>\nUC Sierra Nevada Aquatic Lab\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He brought 13 golden trout in a coffee pot on his horse,” says Pister. A dozen are said to have survived the trip and were planted in a nearby creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners and prospectors released trout in lakes and streams near their work sites for food. Mountaineers did, too, creating a food source for their future explorations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, fishing became more and more associated with recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, \"An Entirely Synthetic Fish,\" evolutionary biologist Anders Halverson says that, among well-to-do men living in East Coast industrialized cities, \"the outdoor life became \u003cem>de rigeur\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors recommended more outdoor time, and tourists visited wilderness resorts or camped in remote places. It was thought, Halverson says, that “to really reconnect with their virility, men needed to capture and kill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though far from urban centers, fishing became more connected to recreation in the Eastern Sierra, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a group in Bishop called the Rainbow Club. Their sole mission was to introduce rainbow trout into the high country,” says Roland Knapp. “You had the Sierra Club doing a lot of the early fish stocking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, government agencies became the major player managing hatcheries and transportation, transforming a once fishless landscape into one brimming with trout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067478\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1920x1168.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-960x584.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n a recent summer morning, Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz drives a big truck up 395 toward Convict Lake, outside the town of Mammoth Lakes. It’s carrying tanks filled with water and 2,400 pounds of fish for stocking into roadside lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we go out here, people are all excited and happy. You’re almost like rock stars,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if on cue, a huge Suburban with two coolers strapped on the back pulls up alongside his truck. The two guys inside wave, and give Ambriz big smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you were little, do you remember that truck with that funky clown music? ‘Ice cream! Ice cream!’ We’re like the big ice cream truck for adults,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the lake, Ambriz backs up and releases 3,600 fish in a long gush of water. They swim around wildly once they hit the surface. Gayle Odell and her family, visiting from Orange County, watch and clap. For them, she says, fishing offers “fun, good conversations, getting away from the problems of the world. Just enjoying the beauty that God created. And rainbow trout is delicious. It’s good eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11070528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11070528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An hour south, Seth Blackamore steers a boat to the quiet end of South Lake, where trout are biting. He runs the dock at South Lake for Parchers, \u003ca href=\"http://parchersresort.net/\" target=\"_blank\">a century-old resort\u003c/a> that caters to anglers. He says the fishing attracts all kinds of people: honeymooners, retirees and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get three generations worth of father, son, and son coming up, just passing down those memories, showing them what their fathers showed them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anglers are vital to the local economy. Fishing is such an important source of jobs and income that communities pay extra to make sure nearby lakes are stocked for recreational fishing. The Chamber of Commerce in Bishop pays to have the Pleasant Valley Reservoir and Lower Owens River stocked year-round, and Mono County spends over $100,000 annually to stock 21 bodies of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he introduction of trout into Eastern Sierra waters hasn’t worked out as well for native species, says biologist Knapp. He and a team spent much of the 1990s surveying 7,000 Sierra lakes, ponds and puddles, looking at the trout’s impact on native species like the mountain yellow-legged frog. They found that lakes with trout had no more native frogs or invertebrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trout basically eat themselves out of house and home. They will eat anything they can wrap their jaws around, understandably,” Knapp says. “They’re predators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing attention to the damage that trout were causing made Knapp pretty unpopular among fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were certainly people who didn’t want to hear the data we were providing. I remember being called the Trout Anti-Christ in one public meeting,” he says. “And I totally understand why somebody might get upset about some scientist saying, ‘Hey, these fish are having negative effects,’ and they’re talking about your favorite lake to go fishing in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067540\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067540\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Pister made a similar discovery in the early 1960s, when he was a new employee at the Department of Fish and Game. Two visiting fish biologists asked him to lead them on an excursion to Fish Slough, a desert wetlands outside Bishop. Their thinking was that water diversions and the introduction of trout had killed off all native fish, including one called the Owens pupfish, but they wanted to make sure. They started mucking around in the marsh and discovered a small remnant population of the small native fish. From that moment, Pister became committed to pushing for more balance between maintaining recreational fisheries and stewarding fragile native species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Owens pupfish] are important because they’re part of the biota that evolved here since the beginning of time,” says Pister. “We showed up later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, how to find a balance between native species and recreation? “There’s no doubt in my mind that fish and fishing provides a very direct connection between people and the land,” says biologist Knapp, “and sometimes you have to trade off what’s best for native species and what’s best for that more challenging thing to define which is: How we relate to this landscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DFW is still committed to recreational fishing, and their employees plant nearly 1.7 million fish a year in the Eastern Sierra, but nearby national parks stopped planting trout in the '90s, and the state has significantly scaled back aerial stocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Knapp have advised agencies that eradicating trout from some lakes -- mostly using gill nets and electroshockers (and, occasionally, Rotenone, a chemical pesticide) -- allows for the recovery of native frogs and other species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The native frog] populations will increase exponentially really quickly,” says Jim Erdman, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist. “It’s amazing sometimes how well that works, just to remove some fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The native frogs face another major challenge: chytrid fungus. “It’s gotten more complicated since the mid-1990s, when we thought that fish were the [only] major contributor to frog declines,” says Knapp. “So we’re just trying to now find again another balance between all these different stressors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result of balancing the desire for recreation with the needs of native species is the Owens Valley Native Fish Sanctuary, in Fish Slough. It’s one of a handful of spots where the Owens pupfish still live, now protected, in the middle of a region where millions of trout are planted every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The nation's top labor official says he supports California's just-passed bill to expand overtime pay for farmworkers and is urging Gov. Jerry Brown to sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Farmworkers who put food on our table should be able to put food on their own table and make enough money to do so,\" Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said in an interview Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once again California can play a leadership role in demonstrating that we can take care of all our employees and do so in a way that is sensible and doesn't break the bank,\" Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/in-historic-vote-assembly-oks-hiking-overtime-pay-for-farmworkers/\">the Assembly approved a proposal\u003c/a> that calls for farmworkers to receive the same overtime pay as hourly workers in other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281106466\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, farmworkers get time-and-a-half pay after working 10 hours in a day or 60 hours in a week. Most other hourly workers are entitled to overtime pay after eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal include Assemblyman \u003ca href=\"https://ad01.asmrc.org/\">Brian Dahle\u003c/a>, R-Lassen County, who is a farm owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not just this one bill that is killing my farm,\" Dahle said. \"It is that we just increased the minimum wage, and it's going to go potentially up to $15 an hour by 2020. It's the air quality standards that my trucks and tractors have to respond to. It's the groundwater regulations that have been passed in the last two sessions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the bill's \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-emotions-flare-over-legislation-to-1472161654-htmlstory.html\">other critics\u003c/a> say the added costs will hurt farmers and force them to cut their workers' hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez notes that the new overtime rules would be phased in over several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're giving growers a pretty wide-glide path to implementation,\" Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor secretary says there's little chance the Obama administration would follow California's lead, given that congressional Republicans are opposing an increase in the federal minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to say I have optimism that we could do more for farmworkers in this administration, but that would require a legislative fix,\" Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Legislature has been meeting throughout the month of August taking final votes on hundreds of bills. Gov. Jerry Brown now has a month to review and act on them. Below we highlight some of the major legislation lawmakers took up in their final weeks of session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280905404\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://link%20to%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/15/california-lawmakers-move-to-limit-seizures-by-police/\">\u003cstrong>Asset Forfeiture\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\nLawmakers sent the governor a bill seeking to limit seizures of property or money by police in situations where a person is never convicted of a crime. Known as asset forfeiture, the practice allows law enforcement officials to seize someone’s property if they suspect it is tied to criminal activity. Asset forfeiture originally became popular among law enforcement agencies as a way to go after large drug dealers, but critics say it’s become a way for police and prosecutors to pad their budgets with the money of innocent, often marginalized people. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB443\" target=\"_blank\">SB 443\u003c/a> by state Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, was two years in the making. Last year, prosecutors successfully lobbied to kill the bill in the Assembly. But this year, law enforcement groups agreed to a series of amendments, and the bill passed with bipartisan support in both houses. If signed by Brown, the legislation would require a conviction before the permanent seizure of cash or property worth less than $40,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://Link%20to:%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/25/lawmakers-back-retirement-plan-for-california-workers/\">\u003cstrong>Retirement Savings Accounts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThere are an estimated 7 million California workers who aren’t offered any sort of retirement account by their jobs -- and state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León \u003c/span>has been working for years to change that. If Brown signs \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1234\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1234\u003c/a>, those private sector workers will soon see a small portion of their earnings automatically directed into a retirement savings account that would be managed by a state board. They could opt out -- but supporters believe most would not, and that the measure would be a big step toward offering millions of Californians, often people working in lower-wage or hourly jobs, more retirement security. The federal government recently approved the creation of these types of state programs, and if California’s legislation is enacted, \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León \u003c/span>expects the program to be up and running within a year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://Link%20to%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/22/legislature-moves-toward-landmark-reforms-of-public-utilities-commission/\">\u003cstrong>CPUC Reform:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11039484\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11039484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-400x259.jpg\" alt=\"A law enforcement official runs towards a massive fire in a residential neighborhood September 9, 2010 in San Bruno, California.\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-800x517.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-960x621.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A law enforcement official runs toward a massive fire in a residential neighborhood Sept. 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission has been in the news a lot since a PG&E gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno six years ago, killing eight people. Investigations into that tragedy and other flaps involving utilities since then have raised questions about the agency and led to charges that its members are too cozy with the private businesses they are tasked with overseeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Sacramento for years have been trying to get at some of the accountability issues raised during those investigations -- including making sure utility officials don’t have inappropriate private conversations with CPUC commissioners and staff before key votes, and more broadly ensuring CPUC officials are following ethics rules. Last fall, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/leno-its-time-for-reform-at-the-california-public-utilities-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Brown vetoed a package of bills\u003c/a> aimed at reforming the troubled agency -- but he promised to work with the Legislature in 2016 to reach a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of negotiations, Brown and Democratic lawmakers in June \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/27/brown-lawmakers-propose-legislation-to-reform-utilities-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">announced an agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB215\" target=\"_blank\">SB 215\u003c/a> by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would set stricter rules and disclosure requirements around lobbying CPUC commissioners and expand the circumstances under which they would be required to recuse themselves from a vote because of a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB512\" target=\"_blank\">SB 512\u003c/a> by Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would require the CPUC to reach out to all potentially affected parties, not just utilities, before a vote, would require annual reviews of the commission’s executive director and would make some changes to the agency’s governance structure. The governor has promised to sign both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third CPUC reform bill failed to win passage. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2903\" target=\"_blank\">AB 2903\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, would have created two new CPUC positions to oversee ethics and safety issues while also moving transportation oversight from the agency to Caltrans. It was a bitter defeat for Gatto, who is termed out of the Assembly.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://Link%20to:%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/13/female-lawmakers-seek-to-expand-californias-definition-of-rape/\">Rape and Sexual Assault:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>The Legislature acted on several bills this year stemming from the case of former Stanford student Brock Turner, who was sentenced to just \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/06/481010919/california-rape-case-sentence-sparks-outrage\" target=\"_blank\">six months in jail\u003c/a> despite being convicted on three counts of felony sexual assault. His victim was unconscious at the time of the January 2015 assault. Two rape charges against Turner were dropped. He is scheduled to be released from Santa Clara County’s jail on Friday after serving three months of his sentence.\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10988235\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10988235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-400x245.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford student Paul Harrison carries a sign in a show of solidarity for the victim in the Brock Turner case during graduation ceremonies at Stanford University on June 12, 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-1180x722.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford student Paul Harrison carries a sign in a show of solidarity for the victim in the Brock Turner case during graduation ceremonies at Stanford University on June 12, 2016. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB701\" target=\"_blank\">AB 701\u003c/a> by Assemblywomen Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, and Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, would expand California’s definition of rape to include all forms of nonconsensual sexual assault. The current law limits rape to nonconsensual intercourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888\" target=\"_blank\">AB 2888\u003c/a> by Assemblymen Evan Low, D-Silicon Valley, Bill Dodd, D-Napa, and Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would prohibit judges from granting probation in sexual assault cases where the victim was unconscious or intoxicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB813\" target=\"_blank\">SB 813\u003c/a> by Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, was taken up before Turner’s sentencing. It would eliminate the statute of limitations for several sex offenses, including rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those bills are headed to the governor.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/18/assembly-acts-to-end-criminal-charges-against-minors-trafficked-in-sex-trade/\">Human Trafficking:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>The Legislature took up several bills aimed at curbing human trafficking and treating those who are trafficked as victims rather than criminals. One of the more hotly debated measures was \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1322\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1322\u003c/a> from Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles. It would prevent children under 18 from being charged with prostitution. Supporters said it would allow children to get the services they need without being classified as criminals. But opponents argued arresting kids is the only reliable way to get them away from their traffickers. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1761\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1761\u003c/a> from Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, would allow human trafficking victims to present an affirmative defense in court, meaning they agree they committed a crime, but can argue their circumstances justified their actions. Weber says victims are often forced to commit crimes under threat from their traffickers. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1762\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1762\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, would allow human trafficking victims convicted of nonviolent crimes to request their convictions be vacated. All three measures are headed to the governor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/26/assembly-to-vote-on-farmworker-overtime-bill-after-protest/\">Labor: \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>California lawmakers took up several bills this year aimed at eliminating income disparities in the state. Among the more controversial was \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1066\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1066\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego. It would allow farmworkers to be paid overtime after they work eight hours a day or 40 hours a week. Right now they must work 10 hours a day or 60 hours a week to get extra pay.\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065133\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11065133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-400x219.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers harvest strawberries in Carlsbad.\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-400x219.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-800x438.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-1180x645.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-960x525.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers harvest strawberries in Carlsbad. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The measure failed to get enough votes to pass the Assembly in June. But Gonzalez used the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Sacramento-Laws-appear-flash/\" target=\"_blank\">gut-and-amend process\u003c/a> to revive the bill. Though it faced tough opposition, the proposal passed the Assembly this week with 44 votes, three more than needed. Critics argue the bill will be a financial burden for farmers and cause them to cut hours for farm workers to avoid overtime costs. The measure now goes to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB654\" target=\"_blank\">SB 654\u003c/a> would expand the state’s existing family leave job protections for anyone — man or woman — with a new child within a year of their birth, adoption or foster placement. It was a top priority of the Legislative Women’s Caucus. An earlier version of the bill was killed in the Assembly Labor Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legislative leaders revived it after a restraining order was issued against the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/22/effort-to-expand-parental-leave-law-stalls-in-assembly-committee/\">committee's chair\u003c/a> following domestic abuse allegations. Currently, California’s family leave laws apply only to businesses with 50 or more employers. SB 654 would include businesses with 20 or more employees within 75 miles of one another, meaning a business with multiple job sites would have to comply even if there are only a handful of workers at each location. The bill now goes to the governor.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/23/tougher-greenhouse-gas-emission-limits-move-forward-in-legislature/\">Climate:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>Ten years ago California took steps to limit its greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200520060AB32\" target=\"_blank\">AB 32\u003c/a>. It required the state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Since then, Gov. Brown has made fighting climate change a hallmark of his administration. The issue is also a priority for leaders in both the Senate and Assembly.\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855887\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10855887\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-400x296.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio-based Valero Corp. is the nation's biggest refiner. The Benicia refinery is one of two the company operates in California.\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-768x569.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-1440x1067.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-1180x875.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-960x712.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Antonio-based Valero Corp. is the nation's biggest refiner. The Benicia refinery is one of two the company operates in California. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB32\" target=\"_blank\">SB 32\u003c/a>, by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, seeks to extend and expand AB 32. It would require emissions be reduced to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its companion measure, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB197\" target=\"_blank\">AB 197\u003c/a> from Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, attempts to help disadvantaged communities by directing the state Air Resources Board to collect and publicly release more data and create regulations that would reduce pollution at the biggest “stationary” and “mobile” polluters — i.e., industries and vehicles that could be harming those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills do not address the future of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/11/09/cap-and-trade-101-how-californias-carbon-market-works/\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade program\u003c/a>, which sets statewide limits on greenhouse gas emissions and sets up a market where companies can buy and sell credits (a company that can easily reduce emissions can sell credits to those for which such a reduction would be difficult). The program has an uncertain future, in part because it is being fought by business groups in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has said he will sign both bills.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Legislature has been meeting throughout the month of August taking final votes on hundreds of bills. Gov. Jerry Brown now has a month to review and act on them. Below we highlight some of the major legislation lawmakers took up in their final weeks of session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280905404&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280905404'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://link%20to%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/15/california-lawmakers-move-to-limit-seizures-by-police/\">\u003cstrong>Asset Forfeiture\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>:\u003cbr>\nLawmakers sent the governor a bill seeking to limit seizures of property or money by police in situations where a person is never convicted of a crime. Known as asset forfeiture, the practice allows law enforcement officials to seize someone’s property if they suspect it is tied to criminal activity. Asset forfeiture originally became popular among law enforcement agencies as a way to go after large drug dealers, but critics say it’s become a way for police and prosecutors to pad their budgets with the money of innocent, often marginalized people. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB443\" target=\"_blank\">SB 443\u003c/a> by state Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, was two years in the making. Last year, prosecutors successfully lobbied to kill the bill in the Assembly. But this year, law enforcement groups agreed to a series of amendments, and the bill passed with bipartisan support in both houses. If signed by Brown, the legislation would require a conviction before the permanent seizure of cash or property worth less than $40,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://Link%20to:%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/25/lawmakers-back-retirement-plan-for-california-workers/\">\u003cstrong>Retirement Savings Accounts:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nThere are an estimated 7 million California workers who aren’t offered any sort of retirement account by their jobs -- and state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León \u003c/span>has been working for years to change that. If Brown signs \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1234\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1234\u003c/a>, those private sector workers will soon see a small portion of their earnings automatically directed into a retirement savings account that would be managed by a state board. They could opt out -- but supporters believe most would not, and that the measure would be a big step toward offering millions of Californians, often people working in lower-wage or hourly jobs, more retirement security. The federal government recently approved the creation of these types of state programs, and if California’s legislation is enacted, \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León \u003c/span>expects the program to be up and running within a year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://Link%20to%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/22/legislature-moves-toward-landmark-reforms-of-public-utilities-commission/\">\u003cstrong>CPUC Reform:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11039484\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11039484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-400x259.jpg\" alt=\"A law enforcement official runs towards a massive fire in a residential neighborhood September 9, 2010 in San Bruno, California.\" width=\"400\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-800x517.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS16582_GettyImages-103953021-qut-960x621.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A law enforcement official runs toward a massive fire in a residential neighborhood Sept. 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission has been in the news a lot since a PG&E gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno six years ago, killing eight people. Investigations into that tragedy and other flaps involving utilities since then have raised questions about the agency and led to charges that its members are too cozy with the private businesses they are tasked with overseeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Sacramento for years have been trying to get at some of the accountability issues raised during those investigations -- including making sure utility officials don’t have inappropriate private conversations with CPUC commissioners and staff before key votes, and more broadly ensuring CPUC officials are following ethics rules. Last fall, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/19/leno-its-time-for-reform-at-the-california-public-utilities-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Brown vetoed a package of bills\u003c/a> aimed at reforming the troubled agency -- but he promised to work with the Legislature in 2016 to reach a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of negotiations, Brown and Democratic lawmakers in June \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/27/brown-lawmakers-propose-legislation-to-reform-utilities-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">announced an agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB215\" target=\"_blank\">SB 215\u003c/a> by state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would set stricter rules and disclosure requirements around lobbying CPUC commissioners and expand the circumstances under which they would be required to recuse themselves from a vote because of a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB512\" target=\"_blank\">SB 512\u003c/a> by Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would require the CPUC to reach out to all potentially affected parties, not just utilities, before a vote, would require annual reviews of the commission’s executive director and would make some changes to the agency’s governance structure. The governor has promised to sign both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third CPUC reform bill failed to win passage. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2903\" target=\"_blank\">AB 2903\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, would have created two new CPUC positions to oversee ethics and safety issues while also moving transportation oversight from the agency to Caltrans. It was a bitter defeat for Gatto, who is termed out of the Assembly.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://Link%20to:%20https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/13/female-lawmakers-seek-to-expand-californias-definition-of-rape/\">Rape and Sexual Assault:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>The Legislature acted on several bills this year stemming from the case of former Stanford student Brock Turner, who was sentenced to just \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/06/481010919/california-rape-case-sentence-sparks-outrage\" target=\"_blank\">six months in jail\u003c/a> despite being convicted on three counts of felony sexual assault. His victim was unconscious at the time of the January 2015 assault. Two rape charges against Turner were dropped. He is scheduled to be released from Santa Clara County’s jail on Friday after serving three months of his sentence.\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10988235\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10988235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-400x245.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford student Paul Harrison carries a sign in a show of solidarity for the victim in the Brock Turner case during graduation ceremonies at Stanford University on June 12, 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-400x245.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-800x489.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-1180x722.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RapeIsRape-960x587.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford student Paul Harrison carries a sign in a show of solidarity for the victim in the Brock Turner case during graduation ceremonies at Stanford University on June 12, 2016. \u003ccite>(Gabrielle Lurie/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB701\" target=\"_blank\">AB 701\u003c/a> by Assemblywomen Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, and Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, would expand California’s definition of rape to include all forms of nonconsensual sexual assault. The current law limits rape to nonconsensual intercourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888\" target=\"_blank\">AB 2888\u003c/a> by Assemblymen Evan Low, D-Silicon Valley, Bill Dodd, D-Napa, and Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would prohibit judges from granting probation in sexual assault cases where the victim was unconscious or intoxicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB813\" target=\"_blank\">SB 813\u003c/a> by Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino, was taken up before Turner’s sentencing. It would eliminate the statute of limitations for several sex offenses, including rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those bills are headed to the governor.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/18/assembly-acts-to-end-criminal-charges-against-minors-trafficked-in-sex-trade/\">Human Trafficking:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>The Legislature took up several bills aimed at curbing human trafficking and treating those who are trafficked as victims rather than criminals. One of the more hotly debated measures was \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1322\" target=\"_blank\">SB 1322\u003c/a> from Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles. It would prevent children under 18 from being charged with prostitution. Supporters said it would allow children to get the services they need without being classified as criminals. But opponents argued arresting kids is the only reliable way to get them away from their traffickers. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1761\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1761\u003c/a> from Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, would allow human trafficking victims to present an affirmative defense in court, meaning they agree they committed a crime, but can argue their circumstances justified their actions. Weber says victims are often forced to commit crimes under threat from their traffickers. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1762\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1762\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, would allow human trafficking victims convicted of nonviolent crimes to request their convictions be vacated. All three measures are headed to the governor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/26/assembly-to-vote-on-farmworker-overtime-bill-after-protest/\">Labor: \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>California lawmakers took up several bills this year aimed at eliminating income disparities in the state. Among the more controversial was \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1066\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1066\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego. It would allow farmworkers to be paid overtime after they work eight hours a day or 40 hours a week. Right now they must work 10 hours a day or 60 hours a week to get extra pay.\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065133\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11065133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-400x219.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers harvest strawberries in Carlsbad.\" width=\"400\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-400x219.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-800x438.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-1180x645.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FarmworkersBerries-960x525.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers harvest strawberries in Carlsbad. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The measure failed to get enough votes to pass the Assembly in June. But Gonzalez used the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Sacramento-Laws-appear-flash/\" target=\"_blank\">gut-and-amend process\u003c/a> to revive the bill. Though it faced tough opposition, the proposal passed the Assembly this week with 44 votes, three more than needed. Critics argue the bill will be a financial burden for farmers and cause them to cut hours for farm workers to avoid overtime costs. The measure now goes to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB654\" target=\"_blank\">SB 654\u003c/a> would expand the state’s existing family leave job protections for anyone — man or woman — with a new child within a year of their birth, adoption or foster placement. It was a top priority of the Legislative Women’s Caucus. An earlier version of the bill was killed in the Assembly Labor Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legislative leaders revived it after a restraining order was issued against the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/22/effort-to-expand-parental-leave-law-stalls-in-assembly-committee/\">committee's chair\u003c/a> following domestic abuse allegations. Currently, California’s family leave laws apply only to businesses with 50 or more employers. SB 654 would include businesses with 20 or more employees within 75 miles of one another, meaning a business with multiple job sites would have to comply even if there are only a handful of workers at each location. The bill now goes to the governor.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/23/tougher-greenhouse-gas-emission-limits-move-forward-in-legislature/\">Climate:\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>Ten years ago California took steps to limit its greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200520060AB32\" target=\"_blank\">AB 32\u003c/a>. It required the state to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Since then, Gov. Brown has made fighting climate change a hallmark of his administration. The issue is also a priority for leaders in both the Senate and Assembly.\u003cbr>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855887\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10855887\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-400x296.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio-based Valero Corp. is the nation's biggest refiner. The Benicia refinery is one of two the company operates in California.\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-768x569.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-1440x1067.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-1180x875.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/ValeroRefinery-960x712.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Antonio-based Valero Corp. is the nation's biggest refiner. The Benicia refinery is one of two the company operates in California. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB32\" target=\"_blank\">SB 32\u003c/a>, by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, seeks to extend and expand AB 32. It would require emissions be reduced to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its companion measure, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB197\" target=\"_blank\">AB 197\u003c/a> from Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, attempts to help disadvantaged communities by directing the state Air Resources Board to collect and publicly release more data and create regulations that would reduce pollution at the biggest “stationary” and “mobile” polluters — i.e., industries and vehicles that could be harming those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills do not address the future of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/11/09/cap-and-trade-101-how-californias-carbon-market-works/\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade program\u003c/a>, which sets statewide limits on greenhouse gas emissions and sets up a market where companies can buy and sell credits (a company that can easily reduce emissions can sell credits to those for which such a reduction would be difficult). The program has an uncertain future, in part because it is being fought by business groups in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has said he will sign both bills.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Inside a sprawling warehouse just outside downtown Los Angeles, a line of seamstresses sew high-end blouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This city is still the garment capital of the U.S., even though it employs a fraction of the workers it once did. Since 1990, the number of U.S. apparel manufacturing jobs has fallen by 80 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The charts and the statistics are really frightening,\" says Ilse Metchek, head of the California Fashion Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek, who has worked in the industry for half a century, says she has seen firsthand the devastating effects free trade agreements have had across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely terrible,\" Metchek says. In the years after the North American Free Trade Agreement, she says, \"we lost 50,000 jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately all the talk in politics has been about what would happen to the country if America were less engaged with the world — and if cutting off trade could, indeed, bring jobs back. And nowhere in the country have the effects of trade — both positive and negative — been more visible than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ogEEtkzYhViFlujx91cH6ZEMBUHKgqMx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek says trade has been a one-way street for American workers — a flood of cheap imports. And in terms of exports? There are almost none. She couldn't name a single company that makes clothes in L.A. and sends them overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/19/478553872/report-says-trade-deal-would-boost-u-s-economy-but-opponents-say-no\">Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a> would make things even worse because it sets rules for 12 countries, but not China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open door for China to ship to the United States, duty-free,\" Metchek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn't like the anti-trade rhetoric that has dominated this campaign from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to start making things again. We're going to start up our manufacturing businesses,\" Trump says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton says, \"I believe we can still make it in America and export from America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek finds that kind of talk naive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because you close trade doesn't mean factories are coming back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparel factories that do remain in the U.S. make \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/456027751/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-la-fashion\">high-end fashion\u003c/a> — $300 designer jeans, $160 shirts. But as for the clothes most people wear, Metchek says there is no way you could make them cheaply enough in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the biggest problem is, of course, that we have a concept that if we make it here the world would want it,\" she says. \"The world is not waiting for American product. We're kidding ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in apparel. But in more advanced manufacturing, it's a different story. The world often \u003cem>is \u003c/em>waiting for made-in-USA goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11067464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, a carbon fiber core rolls through a long machine as a worker gives one last quality control check. This is the factory of CTC Global, which makes conductors that improve efficiency in power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Marv Sepe says more than 80 percent of the company's products are exported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So anything that would hamper our ability to sell into foreign markets would impact us greatly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTC Global is typical of the factories that now dominate Southern California. It's not making T-shirts, but rather high-value products that get shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also lean, with just 130 workers. That's why it's cost-effective for the company to still make its conductors in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done a very good job of automating the process,\" Sepe says. \"We can have a minimal number of people producing the maximum amount of product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not a popular thing to say, but most economists agree: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/10/489490830/presidential-campaigns-are-talking-around-the-robot-in-the-room\">It's automation\u003c/a> — not trade — that's to blame for most of the job losses in manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't play as well on the campaign trail as what Trump says: \"Other people are taking your jobs and our jobs are disappearing. They're going to other countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"u4tdcuO5VFtP3TFxhjneL6FsrGDArVmv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she's considered less protectionist than Trump, Hillary Clinton came out last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/07/446672839/clinton-breaks-with-obama-to-oppose-trans-pacific-partnership\">against the Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a>, the largest trade agreement in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I know about it, as of today I am not in favor of what I have learned about it,\" Clinton has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepe is still holding out hope the treaty will be ratified. He says it would help open new markets to sell his conductors, so he is dismayed that both Clinton and Trump oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are not selling enough product in the United States and you need to go into foreign markets, why would you cut that off?\" Sepe says. \"Ninety-five percent of the world's consumers are outside the United States. We need to go out and compete worldwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And competing means California shouldn't close its doors to bringing in goods from other countries, says Kevin Klowden, an economist at the Milken Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imports are still more important because we are the main gateway for manufactured goods from China into the United States,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When operations at West Coast ports \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/386199926/west-coast-port-closures-are-hitting-several-industries-hard\">ground to a halt\u003c/a> last year because of a labor dispute, L.A.'s economy took a big hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klowden says it's proof of how important trade has become, supporting a vast number of workers who transport and process all that stuff we buy from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the slowdown had turned into a full strike, it potentially could have pushed the Los Angeles area into recession,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the U.S. got into a trade war with China, that's exactly what he worries would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 Southern California Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Inside a sprawling warehouse just outside downtown Los Angeles, a line of seamstresses sew high-end blouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This city is still the garment capital of the U.S., even though it employs a fraction of the workers it once did. Since 1990, the number of U.S. apparel manufacturing jobs has fallen by 80 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The charts and the statistics are really frightening,\" says Ilse Metchek, head of the California Fashion Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek, who has worked in the industry for half a century, says she has seen firsthand the devastating effects free trade agreements have had across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely terrible,\" Metchek says. In the years after the North American Free Trade Agreement, she says, \"we lost 50,000 jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately all the talk in politics has been about what would happen to the country if America were less engaged with the world — and if cutting off trade could, indeed, bring jobs back. And nowhere in the country have the effects of trade — both positive and negative — been more visible than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek says trade has been a one-way street for American workers — a flood of cheap imports. And in terms of exports? There are almost none. She couldn't name a single company that makes clothes in L.A. and sends them overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/19/478553872/report-says-trade-deal-would-boost-u-s-economy-but-opponents-say-no\">Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a> would make things even worse because it sets rules for 12 countries, but not China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open door for China to ship to the United States, duty-free,\" Metchek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn't like the anti-trade rhetoric that has dominated this campaign from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to start making things again. We're going to start up our manufacturing businesses,\" Trump says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton says, \"I believe we can still make it in America and export from America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek finds that kind of talk naive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because you close trade doesn't mean factories are coming back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparel factories that do remain in the U.S. make \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/456027751/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-la-fashion\">high-end fashion\u003c/a> — $300 designer jeans, $160 shirts. But as for the clothes most people wear, Metchek says there is no way you could make them cheaply enough in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the biggest problem is, of course, that we have a concept that if we make it here the world would want it,\" she says. \"The world is not waiting for American product. We're kidding ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in apparel. But in more advanced manufacturing, it's a different story. The world often \u003cem>is \u003c/em>waiting for made-in-USA goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11067464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. 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The company exports more than 80 percent of its products. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, a carbon fiber core rolls through a long machine as a worker gives one last quality control check. This is the factory of CTC Global, which makes conductors that improve efficiency in power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Marv Sepe says more than 80 percent of the company's products are exported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So anything that would hamper our ability to sell into foreign markets would impact us greatly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTC Global is typical of the factories that now dominate Southern California. It's not making T-shirts, but rather high-value products that get shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also lean, with just 130 workers. That's why it's cost-effective for the company to still make its conductors in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done a very good job of automating the process,\" Sepe says. \"We can have a minimal number of people producing the maximum amount of product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not a popular thing to say, but most economists agree: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/10/489490830/presidential-campaigns-are-talking-around-the-robot-in-the-room\">It's automation\u003c/a> — not trade — that's to blame for most of the job losses in manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't play as well on the campaign trail as what Trump says: \"Other people are taking your jobs and our jobs are disappearing. They're going to other countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she's considered less protectionist than Trump, Hillary Clinton came out last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/07/446672839/clinton-breaks-with-obama-to-oppose-trans-pacific-partnership\">against the Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a>, the largest trade agreement in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I know about it, as of today I am not in favor of what I have learned about it,\" Clinton has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepe is still holding out hope the treaty will be ratified. He says it would help open new markets to sell his conductors, so he is dismayed that both Clinton and Trump oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are not selling enough product in the United States and you need to go into foreign markets, why would you cut that off?\" Sepe says. \"Ninety-five percent of the world's consumers are outside the United States. We need to go out and compete worldwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And competing means California shouldn't close its doors to bringing in goods from other countries, says Kevin Klowden, an economist at the Milken Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imports are still more important because we are the main gateway for manufactured goods from China into the United States,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When operations at West Coast ports \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/386199926/west-coast-port-closures-are-hitting-several-industries-hard\">ground to a halt\u003c/a> last year because of a labor dispute, L.A.'s economy took a big hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klowden says it's proof of how important trade has become, supporting a vast number of workers who transport and process all that stuff we buy from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the slowdown had turned into a full strike, it potentially could have pushed the Los Angeles area into recession,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the U.S. got into a trade war with China, that's exactly what he worries would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 Southern California Public Radio. 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Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280743959\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure wouldn't require companies to pay employees for the time off, but it would expand the state's existing family leave job protections for anyone -- man or woman -- with a new child within a year of their birth, adoption or foster placement. 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But every time we have something like this come up, we always find a reason to not support it. And somehow it always revolves around money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melendez, now a mother of five, said she left the Navy in part because she didn't want to leave a newborn in child care. She acknowledged that allowing an employee to leave a small business that depends on them for up to six weeks is a burden. But she noted that the government already protects jobs for some small-business employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any member of the guard, the reserves, the military, if they are recalled to active duty today, their job is guaranteed by their employer no matter who it is, guaranteed, because their country needs their service. So is the birth of a child less important than service to one's country?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, California's family leave laws apply only to businesses with 50 or more employers. 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It passed the state Senate, but in June died in the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment after four male members of the committee --including the committee chair, Assemblyman Roger Hernandez -- \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/22/effort-to-expand-parental-leave-law-stalls-in-assembly-committee/\">abstained from voting on the bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many saw the lack of votes as payback by Hernandez, who was accused by his now-ex-wife of \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-assemblyman-roger-hernandez-fa-1464226118-htmlstory.html\">physically abusing her\u003c/a> during their three-year marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months before the committee hearing, Jackson, as leader of the Legislative Women's Caucus, had c\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article73071247.html\">alled for Hernandez to take a leave of absence \u003c/a>because of those domestic violence allegations. 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