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Community Colleges Tackle Skills Gap In Land Of High Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 09.21.2012 | College
Read More: California Skills Gap, Opportunity-Academic, Video, Central Valley, Unemployment, Education Gap, West Hills Community College District, San Joaquin Valley, Skills Gap, Career-Pathways, Opportunity-Working, Trade Adjustment Assistance, California Community Colleges, College News

NEW YORK -- Cows love alfalfa. Feeding it to them, however, involves a complicated seed-supply chain running from the farms of California's Central Va...

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California Ski Town In Trouble

AP | Posted 09.01.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Central Valley, Town Bankruptcy, Chapter 9, Ski Town Bankruptcy, Sierra Nevada, Municipal Bankruptcy, Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition, Ski Town, Mammoth Lakes Bankruptcy, Ap, California Tourism, Stockton, Business News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Councilmembers in a small ski town high in California's Sierra Nevada voted unanimously Monday to file for bankruptcy, the second...

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Three Reasons Why DREAM Activism in Rural Areas Is Difficult

Voto Latino | Posted 03.21.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Dream Activism, Central Valley, DREAM Act, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
Voto Latino

Everyone is a future leader, regardless of  where they live or their disposition. Only until we start working around our divisions, can we start to see social change.

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The Faithful Shopper: Luxe for Less

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 10.30.2011 | New York
Read More: Tory Burch, Toys, 14th Street, Crate & Barrel, Avenue of the Americas, Daffy's, Milan, Prada, Boston, Union Square, Broadway, Fall Fashion, Armani, Trinity Place, Chanel, Fall Fashion 2011, Calvin Klein, Park Avenue, Paris, London, Cortlandt Street, Nike, Loehmann's, Tj Maxx, Marshalls, Century 21, Burlington Coat Factory, Faith Hope Consolo, Home Décor, Filene's Basement, Daffys, Luggage and Cosmetics, Ferragamo, Columbus Avenue, Back Room, Dolce & Gabbana, Fall, Madison Avenue, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, 57th Street, Woodbury Commons, TJX Cos, Central Valley, Fbsy, New York News
Faith Hope Consolo

These days we fashionistas must watch our wallets as carefully as we watch our waistlines. That doesn't mean we have to sacrifice our love of luxury, however; New York offers a plethora of luxury discount shops.

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Latino Farm Workers, No Pay And No Play

Posted 10.10.2011 | Latino Voices
Read More: California Farm Workers, United Farm Workers, Farm Workers, Farm Worker Wages, Low Wages, Central Valley, California's Central Valley, Latino-Politics, Latino Voices News

By Eduardo Stanley FRESNO - No one knows the exact number of farm workers who year after year raise and harvest the crops grown in the Central Vall...

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California's War on the Elderly and Disabled: A Dispatch from the Front Lines

Steve Mehlman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Fraud, IHSS, Central Valley, Stanislaus County, Arnold Schwarzenegger, In Home Supportive Services, Homecare, Los Angeles News
Steve Mehlman

A flawed and mean-spirited attack by right-wing ideologues on some of California's most vulnerable citizens has begun to sprout poisoned fruit in California's Central Valley.

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Future Weather

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Blue Eagle Plan, Laurence Smith, Weather of the Future, Pakistan Floods, Eli Kintisch, The World in 2050, California's Central Valley, New York City, Fdr, Heidi Cullen, Infrastructure, Rising Sea Level, Like Eric Pooley, Climate Change, Hack the Planet, Hurricane Katrina, Russian Forest Fires, The Climate War, Central Valley, Green News
Giles Slade

If you're tired of being confused about climate change, buy Heidi Cullen's book Weather of the Future.

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Working With China to Build Public Transportation in LA

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Cordoba, Tea Party, Central Valley, Vancouver, Subway, China, Los Angeles, Infrastructure, Seattle, Wall Street, Metro, Public Transportation, Argentina, Portland Oregon, Starbucks, Buenos Aires, Eugene Oregon, Congress, Washington DC, Mel Gibson, 30/10 Plan, Barack Obama, Public-Private Partnerships, Mecca, Medina, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

A recent Transport Politic article notes that not only is China willing and able to contribute its national funds to foreign projects, but also that it intends to structure its investments as an alternative to the World Bank.

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A Crisis in Faith

Irene Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: California Budget, Central Valley, Fresno-California, Jobless Rate, Homelessness, California Budget Cuts, March for California's Future, San Joaquin Valley, Foreclosure, Joblessness, Merced County, California Budget Crisis, Poverty in California, Los Angeles News
Irene Gonzalez

If I have learned anything during this March for California's Future, it is that people in the San Joaquin Valley have lost their faith and their hope along with their jobs and homes.

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Laetitia Offers Champagne Quality at California Prices

Jay Weston | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Champagne, Hollywood, Central Valley, Wineries, Laetitia, Wine, Wall Street Journal, Wine Reviews, Los Angeles News
Jay Weston

I have become almost addicted to Laetitia's sparkling Brut Rose.

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Building High Speed Rail Isn't a Bolshevik Plot

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Vice President Biden, Congress, Mass Transit, Fresno-California, Central Valley, Edgartown-Massachusetts, President Obama, Bakersfield, San Francisco, Fox News, Toyota Recall, Malibu, Los Angeles, California High Speed Rail, Supreme Court, Sacramento Delta, Citizens United, Infrastructure, Voting Rights, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

If you drive on the Interstate, benefit from the Voting Rights Act of 1964 or live free of polio, smallpox, and other communicable diseases, go ahead and thank the government.

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Education Matters

Joel Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: McDermont Field House, Charity, Citrus, Education, Agriculture, Water, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Chelsea Piers, California, Healthy Living News
Joel Epstein

I first visited Lindsay, California about four years ago when, as my company's director of charitable giving, I was looking to make an educational investment in a local elementary school.

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The Pepsi Generation: Fat, Poorer and Diabetic

Joel Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Soda, Central Valley, Gavin Newsom, Personal Health, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pepsi, Coke, Politics, Health Care Reform, Sacramento, Obesity, San Francisco, Health Care, California, Healthy Living News
Joel Epstein

With the link between soda and obesity now conclusive, consider the damage being done to our children. There should be a fee on soda and other sweetened beverages.

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Hannity's Central Valley -- the Facts That Hannity Forgot

Doug Obegi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Salmon, Deltasmelt, Drought, California, Waterprogram, Water, Delta, Fishing, Hannity, Central Valley, Media News
Doug Obegi

In Hannity's upside down world where facts are forgotten, we get to hear a member of Congress complain how environmentalists are "radical" for requiring the state to comply with the law.

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FEMA in California

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Economic Downturn, Drought, Unemployment, Chris Bucci, Fema, Central Valley, Recession, California, Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Giles Slade

Across California's Central Valley, towns are already seeing some of the worst unemployment in the country, with rates three and four times the national average

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Solution to Economy Depends on Refinanced Mortgages, HOME Act

Rep. Dennis Cardoza | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: U.S. Economy, Housing Market, California, Central Valley, Housing, Retirement, Economy, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Fannie Mae, Home Act, California's Central Valley, Housing Crisis, Housing Slump, US Economy, Politics, Mortgages, Homebuying, Fannie Mae Bailout, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Job Cuts, Saving for Retirement, Homebuyers, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Politics News
Rep. Dennis Cardoza

American families are losing their homes and I know this problem all too well. It began in my own backyard in California's Central Valley, which has been coined "ground zero" of the housing crisis.

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