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So do Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia, two young entrepreneurs who recently started a medical marijuana company, Purple Hearts Holistic Alternative Therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vargas met Chavez and Valencia, she was thrilled they wanted to start a business in Huron. She became their volunteer champion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s helped us get embedded in the community,” says Chavez. “She’s been the angel on our shoulder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says they focused on Huron because it needs new businesses that offer more than seasonal work. “You have a population that is hoping for something to hang onto. And it’s tough when you don’t see anything beyond the mountains around you. It’s hard to get over that, to realize there’s a world out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also wanted to build on the momentum of Huron’s sister city, Coalinga, Chavez says. In July, Coalinga sold its unused prison for about $4 million to a company that makes cannabis extracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11137022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11137022\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \" width=\"800\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-1180x868.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-960x707.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Purplehearts-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia came to the Huron farmers market to try and get locals on board with medical cannabis. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez, who has a master’s degree in public administration, and Valencia, a driver for a medical marijuana collective, have also done their part to attract community support. Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. While it does OK medical pot, it allows the city to forbid dispensaries and to set limits on recreational marijuana ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part II: Hanford\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huron's decision to license medical marijuana companies isn't typical here in the Central Valley, at least not yet. The region is pretty conservative and many cities don't want anything to do with marijuana, recreational or medical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you would use a valuable resource like water to grow marijuana -- that is madness!” exclaimed resident Michael Lamb at a recent City Council meeting in Hanford, just 30 miles northeast of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also brings the bad elements into our community,\" added resident Maria Galante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not too far from my house they had a shooting -- some guy trying to steal the other guy’s pot grow, trying to steal his plant. I don’t need that!\" says Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state. \u003ccite>(Christian Parley/Courtesy Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, that doesn't mean outsiders aren't eyeing the cheap real estate and ready labor force. “There are no other opportunities that exist around the state like they exist here,” says dispensary owner Keith Stephenson of Purple Heart Patient Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he found a vacant 1-million-square-foot facility in Hanford, he jumped on it. “I’m a small business,” Stephenson says, “so in the grand scheme of things I’m attempting to scale my business and survive in the emerging paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson’s plan is to use 200,000 square feet to grow marijuana inside the former tire plant. He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. But council members, local law enforcement officials and residents raised a flurry of concerns about crime, addiction and resource management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council hasn’t made any decisions yet, but Hanford Mayor Justin Mendes says, despite opposition from some vocal residents, the idea is getting some traction. “A lot of people here are in the farming world,” he says, “and they say if you’re gonna grow it and ship it to folks in San Francisco -- they eat our grapes, they eat our almonds, let them use our marijuana.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This permitting process is something cities in the Central Valley are grappling with in advance of November’s election, when voters will decide whether to pass \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/64/\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> to legalize recreational marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas grew up in this farming town an hour southwest of Fresno. She started picking watermelons at 15. In fact, most people in this town of 7,000 work in the fields or at a local tomato cannery. But there’s also high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136594\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/IMG_6452-2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huron is a small farming town on the west side of the Central Valley in Fresno County. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vargas thinks medical pot is the ticket for Huron. So do Andrew Chavez and Luis Valencia, two young entrepreneurs who recently started a medical marijuana company, Purple Hearts Holistic Alternative Therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Vargas met Chavez and Valencia, she was thrilled they wanted to start a business in Huron. She became their volunteer champion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s helped us get embedded in the community,” says Chavez. “She’s been the angel on our shoulder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez says they focused on Huron because it needs new businesses that offer more than seasonal work. “You have a population that is hoping for something to hang onto. And it’s tough when you don’t see anything beyond the mountains around you. It’s hard to get over that, to realize there’s a world out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they also wanted to build on the momentum of Huron’s sister city, Coalinga, Chavez says. 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Last month, they handed out 120 school backpacks to show their commitment to Huron. They’ve also spoken before the City Council. Valencia, who served in the U.S. Navy for several years, believes medical cannabis has helped veterans suffering from PTSD and other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grass-roots effort appears to have paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday, the City Council was expected to pass the ordinance Jazmin Vargas was petitioning for, allowing Purple Hearts and one other company to grow medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Roberto Pimentel says that could mean 50 new jobs and tax revenue. “The ag industry is losing a lot because of the drought, and because of technology, honestly,” says Pimentel. “A lot of the tomato harvesting machines use a lot less people than when I was working on them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pimentel, an eighth-grade math teacher, says there’s another reason for this ordinance. While it does OK medical pot, it allows the city to forbid dispensaries and to set limits on recreational marijuana ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Part II: Hanford\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Huron's decision to license medical marijuana companies isn't typical here in the Central Valley, at least not yet. The region is pretty conservative and many cities don't want anything to do with marijuana, recreational or medical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That you would use a valuable resource like water to grow marijuana -- that is madness!” exclaimed resident Michael Lamb at a recent City Council meeting in Hanford, just 30 miles northeast of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also brings the bad elements into our community,\" added resident Maria Galante.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not too far from my house they had a shooting -- some guy trying to steal the other guy’s pot grow, trying to steal his plant. I don’t need that!\" says Lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11136861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11136861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1020x646.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-1180x747.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-960x608.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-240x152.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-375x238.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/HanfordPlant-520x329.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland dispensary owner Keith Stephenson is hoping to turn this 1-million-square-foot former tire plant in Hanford into one of the biggest medical marijuana operations in the state. \u003ccite>(Christian Parley/Courtesy Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, that doesn't mean outsiders aren't eyeing the cheap real estate and ready labor force. “There are no other opportunities that exist around the state like they exist here,” says dispensary owner Keith Stephenson of Purple Heart Patient Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he found a vacant 1-million-square-foot facility in Hanford, he jumped on it. “I’m a small business,” Stephenson says, “so in the grand scheme of things I’m attempting to scale my business and survive in the emerging paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson’s plan is to use 200,000 square feet to grow marijuana inside the former tire plant. He says he’d lease the rest to other growers and manufacturers. It would be one of the biggest operations in the state, and he says this is the perfect place for it. “This facility offered a great opportunity. It’s in an agricultural community, it has a citizenry who understands agriculture, and this is just another form of agriculture. It’s indoor agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already heard from some locals, he says -- people looking for work, building contractors, soil manufacturers and power companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Stephenson sat in the audience at Hanford’s last City Council meeting, the council unanimously passed a resolution opposing Proposition 64 -- and took steps to ban recreational pot in case it passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson estimated his facility would create over a thousand jobs and $14 million a year in tax revenue. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Golden Valley Farm north of Madera, Mario Daccarett’s employees are milking 500 sheep in rounds of 12. As they hook up long clear suction cups to each animal’s teats, milk drains down tubes into a cold tank. This creamy milk eventually is turned into cheese and sold at places like Whole Foods or Bi-Rite Market in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tell me that our Golden Ewe cheese is the best for grilled cheese sandwich ever,” Daccarett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daccarett says he gets about 800 pounds of milk a year from each ewe. To make that much milk it takes a lot of feed — like oats and hay — to satisfy this herd’s constant appetite. 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"content": "\u003cp>Eleven-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater dropped a bomb last December when he released a video of an 8-foot man-made wave in what looks like an old ski pond nowhere near an ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our little secret spot about 110 miles from the coast,” says Slater in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the video Slater sees the wave for the first time and freaks out saying, “Oh, my God. No way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/278043241\" 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>Slater later surfs down this long skinny lake on what seems like an endless perfect wave. His friends go wild, just like the rest of the surfing community has over the last seven months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 100 percent positive our team built the best wave anyone has ever made,” Slater says. “It’s a freak of technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has gone viral, and in the aftermath the wave’s location was found through public permit records for a fish pond about an hour south of Fresno right outside Lemoore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s in the middle of the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/149396475\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not a surfer, but my friends Graham Brock and Kyle Millward are. So we drove to Kings County to find this perfect wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly expect to see a flat pond, but I hope to see Kelly Slater surfing it. That’d be awesome,” says Millward\u003cem>. \u003c/em> We found the property surrounded by an 8-foot-tall fence on one side and a row of tall trees on the other. There'd be no surfing for my friends today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since we couldn’t see much, we talked to neighbor Sonjia May, who lives next door. She says construction on this project has been going on for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that owned it originally put that lake in,” says May. “They sold it and moved to New Mexico. He drained it. It’s all cement, probably a million bucks in cement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surfers from around the world have come to give the wave a go. In a video on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kswaveco.com/\">Kelly Slater Wave Co. \u003c/a>website, pro surfer \u003ca href=\"http://stabmag.com/style/the-commissioner/\">Kieren Perrow\u003c/a> tries it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming here was a total unknown,” Perrow says. “It’s so surprising to come and see how powerful the wave is. It’s got so much push behind it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11049281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1176px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11049281\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A surfer rides a longboard at the secret wave spot.\" width=\"1176\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut.jpg 1176w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-800x442.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-960x531.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfer rides a longboard at the secret wave spot. \u003ccite>(Kelly Slater Wave Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perrow is one of the lucky few. Legendary surfer Michael Willis says he’s interested in riding the wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d go anywhere around the world to catch a wave like that,” says Willis. “It looks sort of like Kirra, a surfing spot in Australia that peals across the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://willisbrotherssurfing.com/\">Michael and his brother, Milton, \u003c/a>are sort of legends in the surf world. Michael was a world record holder for successfully catching some of the largest waves ever surfed. He’s concerned that this artificial wave may be too controlled and may lack some of the spiritual factors that surfers feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like wiping out, I like getting caught inside by waves, I like losing my board and having to swim to shore,” says Willis. “Ocean surfing is an extremely difficult art to master.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis also wants to know how this perfect wave works. The wave company says a very precise geometric object is pulled through the water creating the wave. There’s a bunch more science to it, but that info is proprietary. In that same video from earlier, pro surfer \u003ca href=\"http://stephgilmore.com/\">Stephanie Gilmore \u003c/a>surfed the manufactured wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you dream of this stuff as a kid,” Gillmore says. “Imagine. When you talk about it with your friends, imagine if we had a wave pool that pumped out perfect waves all day long. And to sit here and see it within my lifetime is like the coolest thing ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/165651682\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Ponting, with the \u003ca href=\"http://centerforsurfresearch.org/\">Center for Surf Research \u003c/a>in San Diego, thinks the perfect wave could make Gilmore’s childhood wishes come true in surf parks around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere that has these installations is going to become a tourist destination in and of itself,” Ponting says. “There’s one in the United Arab Emirates that’s right in the middle of the desert and it’s booked out eight months in advance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldsurfleague.com/\">World Surf League\u003c/a>, the governing body for professional surfers, is acquiring the rights to the perfect wave. CEO Paul Speaker says the technology will also create a new way to hold surf competitions. Imagine a perfect wave for every surfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see in the future, two or three or four years out, that there would be a hybrid tour,” Speaker says. “Ocean locations, but also complementing that with a wave pool experience and something that allows us to move into markets that maybe aren’t coastal markets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe man-made waves will never replace the feeling people get out on the open water, but the league expects this technology will open a new chapter for surfers around the world.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’d be awesome,” says Millward\u003cem>. \u003c/em> We found the property surrounded by an 8-foot-tall fence on one side and a row of tall trees on the other. There'd be no surfing for my friends today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since we couldn’t see much, we talked to neighbor Sonjia May, who lives next door. She says construction on this project has been going on for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that owned it originally put that lake in,” says May. “They sold it and moved to New Mexico. He drained it. It’s all cement, probably a million bucks in cement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surfers from around the world have come to give the wave a go. In a video on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kswaveco.com/\">Kelly Slater Wave Co. \u003c/a>website, pro surfer \u003ca href=\"http://stabmag.com/style/the-commissioner/\">Kieren Perrow\u003c/a> tries it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming here was a total unknown,” Perrow says. “It’s so surprising to come and see how powerful the wave is. It’s got so much push behind it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11049281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1176px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11049281\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A surfer rides a longboard at the secret wave spot.\" width=\"1176\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut.jpg 1176w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-400x221.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-800x442.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-960x531.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20721_perfect-wave-qut-672x372.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfer rides a longboard at the secret wave spot. \u003ccite>(Kelly Slater Wave Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perrow is one of the lucky few. Legendary surfer Michael Willis says he’s interested in riding the wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d go anywhere around the world to catch a wave like that,” says Willis. “It looks sort of like Kirra, a surfing spot in Australia that peals across the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://willisbrotherssurfing.com/\">Michael and his brother, Milton, \u003c/a>are sort of legends in the surf world. Michael was a world record holder for successfully catching some of the largest waves ever surfed. He’s concerned that this artificial wave may be too controlled and may lack some of the spiritual factors that surfers feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like wiping out, I like getting caught inside by waves, I like losing my board and having to swim to shore,” says Willis. “Ocean surfing is an extremely difficult art to master.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis also wants to know how this perfect wave works. The wave company says a very precise geometric object is pulled through the water creating the wave. There’s a bunch more science to it, but that info is proprietary. In that same video from earlier, pro surfer \u003ca href=\"http://stephgilmore.com/\">Stephanie Gilmore \u003c/a>surfed the manufactured wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know you dream of this stuff as a kid,” Gillmore says. “Imagine. When you talk about it with your friends, imagine if we had a wave pool that pumped out perfect waves all day long. And to sit here and see it within my lifetime is like the coolest thing ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/165651682\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Ponting, with the \u003ca href=\"http://centerforsurfresearch.org/\">Center for Surf Research \u003c/a>in San Diego, thinks the perfect wave could make Gilmore’s childhood wishes come true in surf parks around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anywhere that has these installations is going to become a tourist destination in and of itself,” Ponting says. “There’s one in the United Arab Emirates that’s right in the middle of the desert and it’s booked out eight months in advance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldsurfleague.com/\">World Surf League\u003c/a>, the governing body for professional surfers, is acquiring the rights to the perfect wave. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s drought is taking its toll on wildlife. Years of sub-par precipitation have cut the amount of water available for wildlife refuges that supply critical habitat and food for \u003ca title=\"Link: http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Dying-of-Thirst/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2\" href=\"http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Dying-of-Thirst/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waterfowl and other migratory birds\u003c/a>. Reduced river flows are pushing endangered fish species to the brink. Riparian forests have also been impacted by the drought, as well as by groundwater over-pumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as the drought, increased development, population growth, pollution and other pressures have almost eliminated most of the vital riparian and wetland habitat that a number of endangered species need to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Rice farms get a bad rap often for the amount of water used to produce rice in California, but rice farming can produce benefits for waterfowl species.’\u003ccite>Ann Hayden, Environmental Defense Fund\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To combat this, the Environmental Defense Fund, along with a partner organization, has launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/ecosystems/central-valley-habitat-exchange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Valley Habitat Exchange\u003c/a>, a voluntary program that gives landowners — farmers and ranchers — incentives to create wildlife habitats on their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how a market-based system for habitat protection works and who benefits, Water Deeply spoke to Ann Hayden, the senior director of the California Habitat Exchange and Western Water program at the Environmental Defense Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Can you explain what the Habitat Exchange is and why you chose to focus efforts in the Central Valley?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Hayden: The Habitat Exchange program we are developing throughout the country is aimed at creating incentives for farmers and ranchers to create habitat benefits on their land while maintaining agricultural productivity. In a sense, they would be getting paid to grow habitat in the same way they grow crops — it’s an additional commodity they would get paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started looking at the Central Valley out of the recognition that over 90 percent of habitat for wetlands and floodplains and riparian habitat-types have been decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since so much of our state is in farmland, it seems like a natural fit that farmers and ranchers should be brought into the fold to help meet conservation goals, and not just rely on land acquisition or looking to conservation banks. Those are valid tools that exist, but we think bringing farmers and ranchers to the table will bring in so much more habitat, while allowing agricultural productivity to be maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What kind of species are you focusing on in trying to create a habitat?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: It helps to have a driver like the Endangered Species Act because when listed species are impacted it will have to be mitigated, so there will be a need to offset that habitat somehow. We’ve focused largely on a handful of listed species at the state or federal level — Swainson’s hawk, the giant garter snake, Chinook salmon, Monarch butterflies and riparian songbirds, within which there are a couple of listed species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: At what stage of development is the project?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We’ve been in development since 2012. We got a U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation innovation grant, which is a three-year grant that helped develop the infrastructure for the program, and flesh out habitat quantification tools — the mechanism to measure the quality of a parcel of land for a particular species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve developed a better understanding of what sort of legal and financial assurances need to be in place in order to get the regulatory agencies to have confidence in this approach being a viable tool in the toolkit for conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are well under way. We’re at the point where we are developing credit-ready projects. We have a number of parcels in the Central Valley. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2016/07/27/birds-snakes-and-butterflies-farming-for-more-than-crops-and-cash/?_ga=1.108139010.1473386416.1470251594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Ranch\u003c/a> is one of them, where we are working with willing landowners and going out to their property, testing and using the tool on these properties to do a site assessment to understand the baseline of habitat quality on the land. From that can really understand what sort of changes in management practices or additional restoration should happen in to increase that score, the habitat function of that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we are at the point of trying to match it with demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Are there other landowners who have committed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: One development is a property in Yolo County called Elliott Ranch and we just received funding through the [Sacramento-San Joaquin] Delta Conservancy, as part of their Proposition 1 funding, to implement some restoration on Elliott Ranch. We’ll be doing some crop shifting to pasture that provides better foraging habitat for Swainson’s hawk and then we’ll also be planting some hedgerows to increase the foraging habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is our first transaction through the Habitat Exchange. For the first time we are going to have a clear indication of how our public dollars for restoration are being spent. That’s been a challenge with bond funding, for example, where we’ve had huge amounts of money being invested in restoration efforts with not a very clear idea of the outcomes that have been achieved. We are trying to change that paradigm through the Habitat Exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also have preliminary agreements from a handful of other landowners in the Central Valley to work with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Besides using Proposition 1 money, how else would the project be funded?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: Any entity that is interested in either meeting a conservation goal, such as the Delta Conservancy, or meeting a mitigation mandate, such as a water agency that is doing some levee setback projects or a developer that is implementing a project — those projects that would impact habitat for certain species — would be a buyer of habitat credits through the habitat exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What has the response been from the agricultural community?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: The feedback we’ve received is that there is a lot of interest to participate in an effort like the Habitat Exchange, but so far the barriers of entry into the conservation mitigation market have been so high that it has been difficult to know how they even get there — it’s complicated or costly. So we are trying to lower the barriers of entry for folks in the agricultural community to be part of the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What is the process for someone who does want to participate and are there upfront costs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We would work directly with them to do a site assessment with the use of the habitat quantification tool to understand the existing habitat quality, habitat function on the land. And then we talk with them about what sort of management practices they are currently implementing and where they might be open to shifting those somewhat to increase the habitat quality for species. We’d work with them on developing a management plan. There has to be a willingness to put a conservation easement on their land but that would be paid for by the buyer of credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: How do you measure the success of the projects?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: That’s the crux of the Habitat Exchange and where we see this approach being somewhat different from other approaches that exist today. It’s really through the use of the habitat quantification tool that’s a method for tracking and monitoring how the landscape is responding over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to use the tool initially to understand the baseline conditions and then have some sort of agreement to go back after a time to the property and run the habitat quantification tool again to see how the habitat is responding. This is not a tool that involves counting populations of species — it’s really looking at the habitat quality on the landscape. 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Rice farms get a bad rap often for the amount of water used to produce rice in California, but rice farming can produce benefits for waterfowl species; and there are ways you can extend the flooding of rice lands during some critical periods of the year to simulate juvenile salmon-rearing habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been some experiments done through the work of Trout Unlimited and UC Davis where they have determined that juvenile salmon reared in these rice fields during these critical months end up as “big fatties” — they come out stronger and much bigger than juvenile salmon coming down the Sacramento River which don’t have access to the food or protection from predators [as on the flooded rice fields]. Rice farms can simulate what the floodplain used to do before we changed the plumbing so much in the state and redirected water from these floodplains during these critical times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What’s most exciting about the impact this project can have?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We’re really excited about the Habitat Exchange driving better conservation outcomes on the ground by working side-by-side with farmers who are original stewards. We think they have a critical role to play and we are going to have a much better chance of maintaining, and hopefully restoring, habitat that’s needed by working closely with working landowners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/08/04/new-program-pays-central-valley-farmers-to-grow-wildlife-habitat\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s drought is taking its toll on wildlife. Years of sub-par precipitation have cut the amount of water available for wildlife refuges that supply critical habitat and food for \u003ca title=\"Link: http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Dying-of-Thirst/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2\" href=\"http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Dying-of-Thirst/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waterfowl and other migratory birds\u003c/a>. Reduced river flows are pushing endangered fish species to the brink. Riparian forests have also been impacted by the drought, as well as by groundwater over-pumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as the drought, increased development, population growth, pollution and other pressures have almost eliminated most of the vital riparian and wetland habitat that a number of endangered species need to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Rice farms get a bad rap often for the amount of water used to produce rice in California, but rice farming can produce benefits for waterfowl species.’\u003ccite>Ann Hayden, Environmental Defense Fund\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To combat this, the Environmental Defense Fund, along with a partner organization, has launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/ecosystems/central-valley-habitat-exchange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Valley Habitat Exchange\u003c/a>, a voluntary program that gives landowners — farmers and ranchers — incentives to create wildlife habitats on their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how a market-based system for habitat protection works and who benefits, Water Deeply spoke to Ann Hayden, the senior director of the California Habitat Exchange and Western Water program at the Environmental Defense Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Can you explain what the Habitat Exchange is and why you chose to focus efforts in the Central Valley?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Hayden: The Habitat Exchange program we are developing throughout the country is aimed at creating incentives for farmers and ranchers to create habitat benefits on their land while maintaining agricultural productivity. In a sense, they would be getting paid to grow habitat in the same way they grow crops — it’s an additional commodity they would get paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started looking at the Central Valley out of the recognition that over 90 percent of habitat for wetlands and floodplains and riparian habitat-types have been decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since so much of our state is in farmland, it seems like a natural fit that farmers and ranchers should be brought into the fold to help meet conservation goals, and not just rely on land acquisition or looking to conservation banks. Those are valid tools that exist, but we think bringing farmers and ranchers to the table will bring in so much more habitat, while allowing agricultural productivity to be maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What kind of species are you focusing on in trying to create a habitat?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: It helps to have a driver like the Endangered Species Act because when listed species are impacted it will have to be mitigated, so there will be a need to offset that habitat somehow. We’ve focused largely on a handful of listed species at the state or federal level — Swainson’s hawk, the giant garter snake, Chinook salmon, Monarch butterflies and riparian songbirds, within which there are a couple of listed species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: At what stage of development is the project?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We’ve been in development since 2012. We got a U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation innovation grant, which is a three-year grant that helped develop the infrastructure for the program, and flesh out habitat quantification tools — the mechanism to measure the quality of a parcel of land for a particular species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve developed a better understanding of what sort of legal and financial assurances need to be in place in order to get the regulatory agencies to have confidence in this approach being a viable tool in the toolkit for conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are well under way. We’re at the point where we are developing credit-ready projects. We have a number of parcels in the Central Valley. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2016/07/27/birds-snakes-and-butterflies-farming-for-more-than-crops-and-cash/?_ga=1.108139010.1473386416.1470251594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Ranch\u003c/a> is one of them, where we are working with willing landowners and going out to their property, testing and using the tool on these properties to do a site assessment to understand the baseline of habitat quality on the land. From that can really understand what sort of changes in management practices or additional restoration should happen in to increase that score, the habitat function of that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we are at the point of trying to match it with demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Are there other landowners who have committed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: One development is a property in Yolo County called Elliott Ranch and we just received funding through the [Sacramento-San Joaquin] Delta Conservancy, as part of their Proposition 1 funding, to implement some restoration on Elliott Ranch. We’ll be doing some crop shifting to pasture that provides better foraging habitat for Swainson’s hawk and then we’ll also be planting some hedgerows to increase the foraging habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is our first transaction through the Habitat Exchange. For the first time we are going to have a clear indication of how our public dollars for restoration are being spent. That’s been a challenge with bond funding, for example, where we’ve had huge amounts of money being invested in restoration efforts with not a very clear idea of the outcomes that have been achieved. We are trying to change that paradigm through the Habitat Exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also have preliminary agreements from a handful of other landowners in the Central Valley to work with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Besides using Proposition 1 money, how else would the project be funded?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: Any entity that is interested in either meeting a conservation goal, such as the Delta Conservancy, or meeting a mitigation mandate, such as a water agency that is doing some levee setback projects or a developer that is implementing a project — those projects that would impact habitat for certain species — would be a buyer of habitat credits through the habitat exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What has the response been from the agricultural community?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: The feedback we’ve received is that there is a lot of interest to participate in an effort like the Habitat Exchange, but so far the barriers of entry into the conservation mitigation market have been so high that it has been difficult to know how they even get there — it’s complicated or costly. So we are trying to lower the barriers of entry for folks in the agricultural community to be part of the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What is the process for someone who does want to participate and are there upfront costs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We would work directly with them to do a site assessment with the use of the habitat quantification tool to understand the existing habitat quality, habitat function on the land. And then we talk with them about what sort of management practices they are currently implementing and where they might be open to shifting those somewhat to increase the habitat quality for species. We’d work with them on developing a management plan. There has to be a willingness to put a conservation easement on their land but that would be paid for by the buyer of credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: How do you measure the success of the projects?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: That’s the crux of the Habitat Exchange and where we see this approach being somewhat different from other approaches that exist today. It’s really through the use of the habitat quantification tool that’s a method for tracking and monitoring how the landscape is responding over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to use the tool initially to understand the baseline conditions and then have some sort of agreement to go back after a time to the property and run the habitat quantification tool again to see how the habitat is responding. This is not a tool that involves counting populations of species — it’s really looking at the habitat quality on the landscape. That will tell us how well it can support species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: One of the species you mentioned is Chinook salmon. Can you explain why fish can benefit from agricultural lands?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: There is really innovative work going on at \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/04/01/flooding-rice-fields-provide-hope-for-salmon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knaggs Ranch\u003c/a>, near the Yolo Bypass. Rice farms get a bad rap often for the amount of water used to produce rice in California, but rice farming can produce benefits for waterfowl species; and there are ways you can extend the flooding of rice lands during some critical periods of the year to simulate juvenile salmon-rearing habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been some experiments done through the work of Trout Unlimited and UC Davis where they have determined that juvenile salmon reared in these rice fields during these critical months end up as “big fatties” — they come out stronger and much bigger than juvenile salmon coming down the Sacramento River which don’t have access to the food or protection from predators [as on the flooded rice fields]. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crash that nearly sliced a bus in half on a central California highway killed four people, not the initial report of five, a local sheriff said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke, who also serves as coroner, gave the new total after canvassing hospitals and checking with coroner's officials in a neighboring county. He said he knew of no deaths among those taken to hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Tuesday's crash, a California Highway Patrol officer at the scene said five people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead include a married couple from Mexico who were traveling to visit a daughter in Pasco, Washington, and a man from Avalon (Los Angeles County), whose spouse was hospitalized, Warnke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fourth victim was identified only as a man in his late 30s whose family was being sought through the Mexican Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators, meanwhile, were working to find out why the bus suddenly veered sharply off the highway, smashing into a pole that tore through the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen people were injured, but none of the victims remained in critical condition. Warnke has said rescuers pulled \"bags of body parts\" from the bus along with survivors, some of whom suffered severed limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11039336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11039336\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"The charter bus struck a highway sign, which sheared it nearly in half.\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-1180x767.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-960x624.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The charter bus struck a highway sign, which sheared it nearly in half. \u003ccite>(KMJNOW via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moments before the crash, it appeared the driver was trying to pass another vehicle that he apparently expected to yield, but it would not let him merge, said a passenger headed from Mexico to her home in Pasco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It kind of ran him off the road,\" Nakia Coleman told Washington state's Tri-City Herald newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators have not been able to interview the 57-year-old driver, Mario David Vasquez of the Los Angeles area, because of the extent of his injuries, CHP Officer Moises Onsurez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ATWATER -- A bus veered off a central California highway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, killing five people and sending at least five more to hospitals, some with lost limbs, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescuers pulled out \"bags of body parts\" from the survivors of the crash on Highway 99, where the speeding bus carrying about 30 people hit the pole of a highway exit sign head-on, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said. It sheared straight through the bus, stopping at the first rear axle \"with a great impact,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency workers climbed in through the windows to pull out trapped passengers. Others were ejected and were lying in a ditch, Warnke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violent collision woke up Leonardo Sanchez, who found himself in chaos: Fellow passengers were screaming and crying. Some couldn't move, and many were calling out for help, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We couldn't pull people out because there was shattered glass everywhere, seats destroyed,\" said the resident of Arvin (Kern County).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OKCFOX/status/760451651304128512\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said he and others who were not severely hurt left the bus right away, fearing that it might catch fire. The 55-year-old said he was left with pain in his stomach and a bruised jaw and mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five people were killed, and at least five others were airlifted to hospitals, California Highway Patrol Officer Moises Onsurez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock received four crash victims. One was transferred to a Modesto hospital in serious condition, and three were treated and released, hospital spokeswoman Pennie Rorex said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities did not have information about any additional injuries or the cause of the single-vehicle crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pole went through the center of the bus, and that's where the injuries were sustained,\" Onsurez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The still-intact sign stuck out from the roof of the crumpled bus. Wreckage and debris including seat cushions, drink containers, pillows and a blanket were scattered in lanes and on the shoulder of the highway a few miles south of the town of Livingston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KMPHFOX26/status/760503881952616448\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onsurez identified the driver as Mario David Vasquez of the Los Angeles area, the Merced Sun-Star reported. The 57-year-old was among those with major injuries and was airlifted to a hospital, the newspaper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus operated by Autobuses Coordinados USA was heading to Washington state and was due in Livingston at 1:30 a.m. to change drivers, Warnke said. It was behind schedule and just a few miles from its stop when it crashed shortly before 3:30 a.m. between the community of Atwater and Livingston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to various telephone listings for the company went unanswered. Its counter at a Los Angeles depot was open, but nobody was present when an Associated Press reporter arrived midmorning. A sign in Spanish advertised daily 7:30 p.m. departures to destinations up the West Coast to Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration listed the carrier as having a \"satisfactory\" rating as of May 17. The bus was inspected in April and had three violations, including a lack of or a defective brake warning device. That violation was not further described, and there was no indication whether each of the items had been fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some highway signs, like those listing the speed limit, have support poles designed with points that break away during a crash. But the poles supporting the much larger overhead signs are designed to \"stay put,\" said Vanessa Wiseman, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the pole involved in Tuesday's crash had the required barrier — in this case, a guardrail — on the side facing lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highway runs through farm fields and almond orchards in the San Joaquin Valley northwest of Fresno. Its northbound lanes were closed during the investigation, backing up traffic for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fourth victim was identified only as a man in his late 30s whose family was being sought through the Mexican Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators, meanwhile, were working to find out why the bus suddenly veered sharply off the highway, smashing into a pole that tore through the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighteen people were injured, but none of the victims remained in critical condition. Warnke has said rescuers pulled \"bags of body parts\" from the bus along with survivors, some of whom suffered severed limbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11039336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11039336\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"The charter bus struck a highway sign, which sheared it nearly in half.\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-1180x767.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BusCrash-960x624.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The charter bus struck a highway sign, which sheared it nearly in half. \u003ccite>(KMJNOW via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Moments before the crash, it appeared the driver was trying to pass another vehicle that he apparently expected to yield, but it would not let him merge, said a passenger headed from Mexico to her home in Pasco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It kind of ran him off the road,\" Nakia Coleman told Washington state's Tri-City Herald newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators have not been able to interview the 57-year-old driver, Mario David Vasquez of the Los Angeles area, because of the extent of his injuries, CHP Officer Moises Onsurez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ATWATER -- A bus veered off a central California highway before dawn Tuesday and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, killing five people and sending at least five more to hospitals, some with lost limbs, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rescuers pulled out \"bags of body parts\" from the survivors of the crash on Highway 99, where the speeding bus carrying about 30 people hit the pole of a highway exit sign head-on, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said. It sheared straight through the bus, stopping at the first rear axle \"with a great impact,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency workers climbed in through the windows to pull out trapped passengers. Others were ejected and were lying in a ditch, Warnke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violent collision woke up Leonardo Sanchez, who found himself in chaos: Fellow passengers were screaming and crying. Some couldn't move, and many were calling out for help, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We couldn't pull people out because there was shattered glass everywhere, seats destroyed,\" said the resident of Arvin (Kern County).\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Kings County is known for farmed products like cotton and milk, as well as prisons and the Naval Air Station in Lemoore. Now, a Southern California group wants to build a brand-new high-tech town in this agricultural county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people who visit the rural county don’t even realize they’re there. That’s because they’re zooming by along Interstate 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halfway along the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco, a tiny oasis appears. It’s here that drivers like Rob Parker, from Vancouver, stop to stretch their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our 2-year-old boy was bouncing off the walls inside of our motor home and I looked out the window and I saw a sign for Kettleman City,” Parker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parkers ended up at a western-themed strip mall called Bravo Farms. Michelle Magallan, the manager, is scooping ice cream for a customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get people from out of state, out of the country,\" Magallan says. \"You’re in the middle of nowhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magallan says she’s heard rumors of a state-of-the-art city in the works about 8 miles south of here on I-5 called Quay Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11013051\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"Kettleman City is one of the largest rest stops on Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-800x470.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-400x235.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-1180x693.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/BravoFarmsBig-960x564.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kettleman City is one of the largest rest stops on Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the moment this proposed town is nothing but 7,500 acres of desert. But Southern California real estate developer and entrepreneur Quay Hays wants to change that. His company, GROW Holdings, develops green projects. But this is Hays' first foray into creating a new town. He's worked in marketing, book publishing, finance and the film industry. It’s sort of a legacy project for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My name’s on the door,” Hays says. “I gotta make sure it turns out OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed town calls for multiple mixed-use village centers with stores, parks, restaurants, a mall and a college with a focus on sustainability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ll go under an underpass and what you’ll see to the right we would have a very large entertainment destination,\" says Hays. \"On the left we would have some very unique themed resort hotels and then you go into the community itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272737620\" 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>In 2007 a slump in the economy and a lawsuit over water halted Hays' initial plan to build Quay Valley. Now the project is back on the table. He says it will create professional careers as well as retail jobs. Hays also says the future city of 75,000 people will feature houses and apartments run on solar energy, a graywater system and a futuristic transportation system called a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/who-wants-to-design-a-hyperloop-for-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperloop\u003c/a>, first imagined by Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the initial testing of moving humans, it could be an intermodal transportation system within Quay Valley,” Hays adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GROW Holdings is paying for all the plans, permitting, land and water acquisitions. Development funds will come from private capital and buyers. But for this city to become a reality, the company’s plans will have to get past the Kings County Planning Division, led by Greg Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very excited about this process, but to build an entire new community when there’s nothing that exists there is very comprehensive in terms of everything that would be necessary to actually support that,” says Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013000\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11013000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-800x988.jpg\" alt=\"A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-400x494.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy GROW Holdings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gatzka’s staff is working with Hays on the very early stages of planning. He says there are a number of looming questions yet to be answered. His biggest concern is that lack of water could halt the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the water going to come from and how are they going to provide it in a sustainable manner?\" Gatkza asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finished, the town is supposed to use around 12,000 acre-feet of water a year. Some of that water will come from water rights Hays purchased for the initial phase, but he isn’t sure where the rest will come from. UC Davis environmental design professor Stephen Wheeler questions whether this project is even sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am pretty skeptical,” says Wheeler. “If we were really thinking about investing $5 billion or whatever it’s going to be, it would be way more sustainable to invest it in some existing city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He would rather see that money used in communities with infrastructure already in place. 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Now the project is back on the table. He says it will create professional careers as well as retail jobs. Hays also says the future city of 75,000 people will feature houses and apartments run on solar energy, a graywater system and a futuristic transportation system called a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/who-wants-to-design-a-hyperloop-for-elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperloop\u003c/a>, first imagined by Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the initial testing of moving humans, it could be an intermodal transportation system within Quay Valley,” Hays adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GROW Holdings is paying for all the plans, permitting, land and water acquisitions. Development funds will come from private capital and buyers. But for this city to become a reality, the company’s plans will have to get past the Kings County Planning Division, led by Greg Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very excited about this process, but to build an entire new community when there’s nothing that exists there is very comprehensive in terms of everything that would be necessary to actually support that,” says Gatzka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11013000\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11013000 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-800x988.jpg\" alt=\"A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/LandUsePlan-400x494.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A draft land use plan for the Quay Valley project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy GROW Holdings)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gatzka’s staff is working with Hays on the very early stages of planning. He says there are a number of looming questions yet to be answered. His biggest concern is that lack of water could halt the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the water going to come from and how are they going to provide it in a sustainable manner?\" Gatkza asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When finished, the town is supposed to use around 12,000 acre-feet of water a year. Some of that water will come from water rights Hays purchased for the initial phase, but he isn’t sure where the rest will come from. UC Davis environmental design professor Stephen Wheeler questions whether this project is even sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am pretty skeptical,” says Wheeler. “If we were really thinking about investing $5 billion or whatever it’s going to be, it would be way more sustainable to invest it in some existing city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He would rather see that money used in communities with infrastructure already in place. Cal State Fresno urban planning professor Hongwei Dong agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s supposed to be self-sustained, but on the other hand I assume they are going to rely on people from off-site to go shopping there, to go there for entertainment,” Dong adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says all those people traveling to Quay Valley could actually increase pollution in the area. An environmental review will also need to take place as part of the approval process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Kettleman City, people who live in the area, like Michelle Magallan, think a high-tech town could boost the economy in Kings County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would she live in Quay Valley?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably would. It’d probably keep me healthier and living longer. Why not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it will be at least a couple of years before Magallan could even consider buying a house in Quay Valley. 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"content": "\u003cp>Here’s a statistic that, no matter how many times we report about it, still sounds shocking: \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/dwdocuments/2014/2014_acr_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">More than a million Californians \u003c/a>lack access to safe, clean drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"When the doctor told me that I had high arsenic contamination in my body, I thought, 'If this is happening to me, then this must be happening to everyone.'\"\u003ccite>Reinelda Palma, resident Matheny Tract\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The crisis is particularly acute in the rural Central Valley, where some communities -- like tiny Matheny Tract outside Tulare -- have struggled with unsafe drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Matheny Tract, the community's two wells are contaminated with arsenic. Reinelda Palma knows about it firsthand. She drank the tap water until a few years ago, when a doctor told her that she had been exposed to arsenic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very traumatic when the doctor told me that I had high arsenic contamination in my body,\" she says in Spanish. \"And I thought, if this is happening to me, then this must be happening to everyone, including the children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she became an advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matheny Tract is not a city or a town. It’s unincorporated, which means it has no elected government, and it’s hard to get services like sidewalks or streetlights. About 1,200 people live here, and almost a third of them live below the federal poverty line. Like Palma, most are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_177434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-177434 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/04/IMG_0977_0-e1461788970527.jpg\" alt=\"This hydrant, installed over a year ago, is still not hooked up to running water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This hydrant, installed over a year ago, is still not hooked up to running water. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Palma and her neighbor Javier Medina, took me on a tour of the neighborhood. We saw a lot of bright yellow fire hydrants that looked brand-new, but Palma and Medina said they didn't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because they are waiting to be hooked up to water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashley Werner of the nonprofit advocacy group the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leadershipcounsel.org/#!about/cjn9\">Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability\u003c/a> says people in unincorporated communities like Matheny Tract have been fighting for clean water for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Effectively in local government, often there’s no elected representatives claiming to have any responsibility to ensure that people have access to clean water,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Matheny’s case, getting water from the nearby city of Tulare seemed like an obvious solution. The city is so close, Palma can point to it from her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Matheny and Tulare signed a contract to connect their water systems. Roads were dug up and hydrants put in place. But in 2014, the city sued to re-evaluate the contract. Construction stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_177435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-177435 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/04/IMG_1009_0-e1461789066582.jpg\" alt=\"Scars of dark pavement in Matheny Tract's roads remind residents of the water mains that are still not hooked up to water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scars of dark pavement in Matheny Tract's roads remind residents of the water mains that are still not hooked up to water. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We did not have capacity to serve 300 homes at a turn of the switch, \" says Martin Koczanowicz, Tulare's city attorney. \"We spent over half a million dollars in short-term fixes to our infrastructure, and we had jurisdictional issues which were a barrier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ashley Werner says the community’s residents -- mostly immigrants, farmworkers, and minorities -- felt discriminated against. With the help of Werner’s group, Matheny countersued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a lack of responsibility on the part of elected officials to the residents of Matheny Tract,\" says Werner. \"In a sense, by everybody involved, that they had no duty and no commitment to this community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3syvmgeeaRwdP3TVOQNBOwaofFQPiC0D\"]Matheny and Tulare remained in a legal stalemate until March of this year, when the state intervened under a new law. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB88\">Senate Bill 88\u003c/a> allows the state to order a city to share its water with communities that need it. Matheny Tract is the law’s first success. By June, Tulare will be forced to share its drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting clean water is a huge relief for Javier Medina. He’s a dairy worker, and his family of six has been using bottled water. He’s glad that the state stepped in. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every April, the townspeople of Lindsay pack the pews of a local church, as fathers in cowboy boots proudly escort their daughters down the aisle. They’re the college-bound young women elected as the Orange Blossom Festival Queen and her court. This year, they’re all young women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queen \u003ca href=\"http://www.recorderonline.com/news/angela-bola-os-named-obf-queen/article_3e5a3d54-f634-11e5-8200-477fe1b58de5.htm\">Angela Bolaños\u003c/a> says that’s a sea change from a time when the royal court was almost always made up of white farmers’ daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It says a lot. The Latina presence is growing stronger. We just all want to make ourselves heard,” Bolaños says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260193168″ 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 mayor of Lindsay, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/23/latinos-majority-in-small-farm-town-but-will-their-political-influence-wane-if-young-people-dont-vote\">Ramona Padilla\u003c/a>, is also, for the first time, a Latina. She reads a decree officially proclaiming this year’s 84th annual Orange Blossom Festival, to celebrate the role of the citrus industry in this farm town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, across town, 19-year-old Amy Huerta leads a troupe of more than a dozen kids twirling brightly colored skirts and stamping their feet. 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Padilla called a meeting after hearing in my \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/central-valley-teen-is-familys-only-vote-but-will-she-cast-a-ballot\">previous radio stories \u003c/a>about young people who aren’t interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-400x288.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-960x692.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four young women I’ve been interviewing over the last few months join Padilla in Lindsay’s downtown plaza, modeled after a zocalo, or town square in Mexico. They’re all dressed up to meet the mayor, and are a little nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pressure From the Mayor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla starts by grilling Amy. She’s the only one who’s eligible to vote in her family. Everyone else is undocumented or too young to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was listening to your story, I heard that you weren’t sure if you were going to vote,” she tells Amy. “Do you feel pressured that you’re the only one that can vote at this time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like a little pressure,” Amy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”UhFYIanX0UYtYhsbyma9YgX2IwXq9esF”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, after an election, if her parents don’t like the way prices are going up, or certain laws that have been passed, they get after her about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, you got to make a change,” Amy says her parents tell her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Because) whoever got elected last year is messing up. Now you got to vote for what we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amy’s never felt like voting really has anything to do with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she’s had me interview her multiple times about voting, and the mayor requested a private meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a town of 12,000, every vote is needed,” Padilla tells her. “When you don’t vote, you take your voice away. So does that make sense?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then turns to Cassandra Baca, a single mom who has brought along her 1-year old daughter, Amoriee. We met her in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/23/latinos-majority-in-small-farm-town-but-will-their-political-influence-wane-if-young-people-dont-vote\">earlier radio story\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933987\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933987\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you got your driver’s license, did you not register to vote?” asks the mayor. “No,” says Cassandra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can I help you get registered to vote?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” says Cassandra, bouncing her baby on her knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor explains that she can go to a post office and pick up a registration form. She’ll even do it for her. The mayor says she can tell by Cassandra’s body language that she might be interested in registering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surprise to me, because all the times I’ve talked to Cassandra over the last few months, she didn’t seem like voting was even on her radar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she tells me that after our interview, she started paying closer attention to the presidential race. She says Donald Trump’s incendiary comments about immigrants have pushed her over the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s pretty much enough to get me to vote,” says Cassandra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Makings of a New Voter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Amy’s case, she’s had a lot of pressure from her brother, a community activist who is undocumented. He really wants his sister to vote on behalf of their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Amy says she’s coming around to his point of view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I looked at each of the (presidential) candidates, and I was like, ‘This year, it’s different.’ Now you have a Hillary, you have a woman. You have Ted Cruz, a Latino,” Amy says. “Then you have Donald Trump and Bernie. So now you have a different combination. Now it caught my attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if I voted for Hillary, what would she do for me, as a woman? What if I elect Ted Cruz? What would he do for Latinos? It’s just more the presidential election having all this different variety now. It’s not just white men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla is watching Amy’s expression carefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”lcON4Hrj4DMEvE5mDWK6Oib7dMZroHKk”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s recognizing a lot of reasons why if she didn’t vote, what could happen,” Padilla says. “I think, just looking at her, it appears to me that she wants to make a difference, too, and she probably now really feels that her vote is going to matter, it’s going to count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No pressure, or anything, having the mayor of your town tell you she knows you’re going to do it. And a statewide public radio audience waiting to find out if you’ll cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Amy says she’s made up her mind on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I will vote this time. Not only for me, not only for my family, but you know, for the community of Lindsay, for those who don’t vote,” says Amy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can count on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so happy to hear that, and you just make my heart swell,” says Padilla, who gives Amy a high-five and then takes a round of selfies with all the girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramona Padilla says she hopes that she can work herself out of a job and open up a space for young Latinas like Amy and Cassandra on the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope you could become Latina mayors someday, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the first step is to make sure these young voters make it to Lindsay’s one polling place in June, or remember to send their ballot in by mail, on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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Padilla called a meeting after hearing in my \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/central-valley-teen-is-familys-only-vote-but-will-she-cast-a-ballot\">previous radio stories \u003c/a>about young people who aren’t interested in voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote.\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-400x288.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithYoungWomen-960x692.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla (C) meets with young women in Lindsay, to urge them to vote. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four young women I’ve been interviewing over the last few months join Padilla in Lindsay’s downtown plaza, modeled after a zocalo, or town square in Mexico. They’re all dressed up to meet the mayor, and are a little nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pressure From the Mayor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla starts by grilling Amy. She’s the only one who’s eligible to vote in her family. Everyone else is undocumented or too young to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was listening to your story, I heard that you weren’t sure if you were going to vote,” she tells Amy. “Do you feel pressured that you’re the only one that can vote at this time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like a little pressure,” Amy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, after an election, if her parents don’t like the way prices are going up, or certain laws that have been passed, they get after her about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This election, you got to make a change,” Amy says her parents tell her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Because) whoever got elected last year is messing up. 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We met her in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/23/latinos-majority-in-small-farm-town-but-will-their-political-influence-wane-if-young-people-dont-vote\">earlier radio story\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10933987\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10933987\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee.\" width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PadillaWithBaca-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Ramona Padilla, Cassandra Baca, and her 1-year-old daughter, Amoriee. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you got your driver’s license, did you not register to vote?” asks the mayor. “No,” says Cassandra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can I help you get registered to vote?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” says Cassandra, bouncing her baby on her knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor explains that she can go to a post office and pick up a registration form. 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"content": "\u003cp>At Bee Sweet Citrus in the Central Valley town of Fowler, forklifts beep as workers load and pack oranges, lemons and mandarins that will be shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Watkins runs farm operations here, and says most of his employees make above minimum wage right now. But he thinks a jump to $15 an hour will mean farmers have to pass that cost onto consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, all we’re doing is causing the cost of food to go up, which makes less money in your take-home check at the end of the month, just cuz you’ve got to pay more for food,” Watkins says. “So to me, it’s just a revolving circle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movement to raise the minimum wage has largely come from cities, where restaurant and service workers have been pushing for an increase. But the wage hike could have seismic effects on more rural, inland areas, where poverty and unemployment rates are higher than on the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/256289072″ 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>Farmers in the Central Valley say they’ve already had to adjust to higher prices for water, and to the $10 minimum wage that took effect in January. In order to survive, says Watkins, farmers are just going to have to mechanize more of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to go and have reliable costs out there every year,” he says. “It’s robots, it’s new technology in order to do some of the jobs that people used to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Socorro Torres, a farmworker lugging groceries and pushing her kids in a stroller along a sidewalk in Fresno, says she’d welcome a raise for the hours she spends stooped picking garlic, or standing on a ladder to pick cherries.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s big positives that come with this and big negatives … And both will be larger in the Central Valley.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Of course it’s better to earn more,” she says in Spanish. “What we make now doesn’t allow us to pay our bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says it costs her to work in the fields: She has to pay for a ride, and for someone to watch her kids. At $10 an hour right now, she’s barely making it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be challenging for industry in the Central Valley to cope with it, but it’s also a place that deals with the negative aspects of poverty and low-paying jobs,” Jeff Michael says. He directs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacific.edu/Academics/Schools-and-Colleges/Eberhardt-School-of-Business/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-Business-and-Policy-Research.html\">Center for Business and Policy Research \u003c/a>at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacific.edu/About-Pacific/Newsroom/2016/March-2016/Impacts-of-a-15-per-hour-minimum-wage-on-the-Northern-California-megaregion.html#.Vvr1Qfi1t4w.twitter\">analysis \u003c/a>shows the minimum wage hike could impact nearly 60 percent of the jobs in some Central Valley counties, where agriculture is king. It also shows that most of the workers who will benefit from a wage hike are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s big positives that come with this and big negatives that come with this and both the positives will be larger and the negatives will be larger in the Central Valley,” Michael says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same is true in areas like the Inland Empire, just East of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a disproportionately large number of marginally educated, lower-income workers,” says economist John Husing, who consults for local governments and private business in urban Riverside and San Bernadino County. Otherwise known as the Inland Empire, it’s a traditionally lower-income region with a blue-collar job market, home to a number of companies that pay less than $30,000 a year to most workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husing supports the wage hike proposal, but says it’s a good thing it would phase in over 6 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”OzqnjgE64T9bt6sY5o6ddSf9TGAobmEY”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing it up at a moderate pace really works for the workforce. But it also will not cause the dislocations that will would normally occur if you moved it too fast,” Husing says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking about the dislocation of jobs: bosses cutting staff, shutting down operations, even leaving the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husing believes the Inland Empire region is overdue for a hike in the minimum wage. But he also didn’t have much faith that it would happen locally, because local governments in the region are much more conservative on labor issues than neighboring Los Angeles, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-minimum-wage-hike-20150518-story.html\">passed its own $15 minimum wage\u003c/a>, set to phase in by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But David Neumark, who teaches economics at UC Irvine, says the state should have taken a wait-and-see approach, examine the effects of local minimum wage hikes in cities like L.A. before imposing a one-size-fits-all approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually think it’s kind of reckless to just go ahead and do that everywhere else before we learn something about the consequences in these cities,” Neumark says. “A more sober view would say, ‘OK some cities have done this, let’s get some serious research done, let’s learn more about what happens before we say that we know for sure that $15 in Fresno is not gonna do a lot of damage.'”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/central-valley-teen-is-familys-only-vote-but-will-she-cast-a-ballot\">last visited the Central Valley farm town of Lindsay\u003c/a>, Amy Huerta and her brother, Luis, were in the middle of a pretty intense dinnertime conversation about voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, these are things that matter,” says Luis, who can’t vote because he’s undocumented. Amy is 18, and she could be the first in her family to vote, so he’s putting a lot of pressure on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t always take his side,” laughs Amy. “I don’t always do what he tells me to do, because we both have different minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255017454″ 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>But other potential young voters in Lindsay come from families where politics are not a main course during family dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘It Doesn’t Matter If I Vote or Not’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town from the Huerta household, 22-year-old Cassandra Baca’s daughter, Amoriee, just woke up from a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baca says she hasn’t really thought at all about voting. She’s got enough on her plate as a single mom with a baby. She works as a kitchen assistant in a facility for senior citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter if I vote or not. I don’t think it would count. It really doesn’t have anything to do with me,” she says, as she tries to distract the baby by jangling her car keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassandra’s dad migrated from Mexico to work in the fields. After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. As mayor, she receives only a $75 stipend each month. Her day job is as a mental health clinician in the schools. She’s also working toward a Ph.D. in psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla takes me on a tour of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdermontfieldhouse.com/\">McDermont Field House\u003c/a>, a former citrus packinghouse that the city turned into 172,000-square-foot indoor sports complex. It’s got indoor soccer fields, the largest laser tag space in the world and an indoor wave rider where landlocked farm kids can hang ten on a man-made swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a project for Lindsay to be a fit city,” explains Padilla. “To improve engagement of youth in Lindsay, to have a place where they can come and not get themselves into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TP90BZhO4e3Q1CC3ok1y0YzLetfcYjS7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But trouble came nonetheless. Not from kids, but through alleged financial mismanagement by previous city leaders that has left Lindsay’s current administration trying to figure out to pay for the sports complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says she’s trying to bring more transparency to the city and to get residents engaged. And that means all residents, including undocumented farmworkers who can’t vote. And their children, who can, but maybe don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amy Huerta. The mayor has a message for her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amy, I get the sense that you’re thinking that it might not make a difference whether you would vote,” Padilla says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to say to you that it does make a difference because I remember from Lindsay City Council, people won by one vote. That (one vote) could be you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. 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Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. 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But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. 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