Governor of California

California experiences a wide variety of natural disasters including drought, wild fires, mudslides, and various other impactful disasters. The biggest one that California encountered over time and time again is the droughts they get from various weather influences. The definition of a drought extends across various definitions, but the main one is described as “A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.” Definitions on drought do vary depending on…

The California Drought and Livelihood Resilience Drought is the most serious complication in California now. There are so many reason drive California into a drought situation, for instance, deficiency of snowpack, scarcity of rainfall, high temperature, and paucity of underground water. High temperature evaporates the snowpack and underground water, thus water decreases. River dries up and the water level continues to decline. The lawns are dry, and the cows and goats face for lack of grass to…

influence and motivate his agenda. In contrast, California has had a long history of supporting immigrant communities. The city of San Francisco adopted a sanctuary policy in the early 1980’s, which prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from entering county jails and reviewing booking logs (Lagos, 2017). In 2014, California passed the Trust Act, which limits the use of immigration hold requests in local jails. Most recently, California pushed the political agenda on…

In the article by Ian Lovett and Michael Wines it is stated that Jerry Brown, Governor of California, is known of his battle against climate change and even participated in the United Nations climate change conference in Paris but failed to prevent the fire of emissions in California. Lovett and Wines claimed that the report in the journal Science the Porter Ranch breach doubled the amount of methane emitted daily in the Los Angeles Basin and Brown administration did take any actions to regulate…

Joe Grasse Patrick Murphy Section: Thurs. 11am The Physical Geography of Los Angeles, California Los Angeles: home to Hollywood, the Lakers, and some of the best beaches in the world. How did it get to be such a big city though? Physical geography definitely played a role in the settlement, the expansion, and will even shape the future of this great place. The history of Los Angeles and its geography begins when the Spanish arrived in the 18th century. They came in contact with Gabrielinos and…

In the past thirty to forty years, America has been struggling with resource management, specifically with oil However, more recently, California has been suffering from a different kind of resource scarcity- water. Here in California, many people heatedly debate on the price of gasoline, but few people are aware of the increase in water prices statewide, especially for farmers, who use eighty percent of the state’s allocated water. For farmers, the price of water has increased by as much as…

is complex. I will just blurt it out. For my rivers and lakes I have the Colorado River, Humboldt River, the awesome Pyramid Lake, Lake Tahoe, and last but not least, well it probably is the least Walker lake. Its bordering states are Arizona, California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. Those states are important, so remember them because i might give you a pop quiz. Nevada’s major cities are Carson City, Reno, and of course Las Vegas. But i don't think Las Vegas beats the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam…

On August 13th in Los Angeles, California, the last of 96 million shade balls were emptied into the 175-acre reservoir located in Sylmar. These floating black balls, measuring four inches in diameter, cover the surface of the water. The purpose of the balls is to protect the drinking water and prevent contamination from factors such as animals and harmful reactive chemicals. Bromide which is already present in the reservoir reacts with chlorine and sun rays to create bromate, a harmful…

company was making their entry into California. They are known as the Private prisons of America. California began using private prisons as an immediate solution to deal with massive overcrowding. Instead of using privatized prisons to eliminate overcrowding, the state should consider alternate solutions because the private prisons only create more problems for the economy, families and immigration. What caused the reemergence of private prisons in California? We can start in 1979 when…

3.9%. 722,762 votes (New York Times). That’s the difference between 749 California inmates being taken off death row and receiving life without parole, or staying on there and ultimately facing lethal injection (Death Row Inmates by State). The death penalty has been a controversial topic for decades, being taken away in 1972, reinstated in 1977, halted in 2006, and continued again in 2010 (Progressive Editorial Staff). This proposition causes voters to have very strong views about it, millions…