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Category: California
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Silicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With Fire
How some high-tech entrepreneurs are trying to use new forms of technology to solve the problem of mega-wildfires in the age of climate change.
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Silicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With Fire
How some high-tech entrepreneurs are trying to use new forms of technology to solve the problem of mega-wildfires in the age of climate change.
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In California, Homeless Shelters That Prioritize Privacy
Prefabricated modular campuses in Northern California are offering comforts that may help keep people off the streets — with pets, possessions and private space in mind.
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Can China Tech Find a Home in Silicon Valley?
Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are setting up firms across the Pacific, only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell.
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Bridging the Uplifting and the Harrowing in San Francisco
Heather Knight, the San Francisco bureau chief for The New York Times, strives to reflect all sides and perspectives of the city.
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Farm Workers Union Battles With California Grower, Wonderful Nurseries
Wonderful Nurseries, owned by Stewart and Lynda Resnick, has sued the state to overturn a labor organizing law championed by the United Farm Workers.
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What Kalamazoo (Yes, Kalamazoo) Reveals About the Nation’s Housing Crisis
A decade ago, the city — and all of Michigan — had too many houses. Now it has a shortage. The shift there explains today’s costly housing market in the rest of the country.
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Jack Russell, Great White Singer and Survivor of Nightclub Fire, Dies at 63
At a show in 2003 with his “Jack Russell’s Great White,” a pyrotechnics display ignited a fire that killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist.
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Passenger Who Tried to Open Cockpit Gets 19 Months in Prison
Juan Rivas, who threatened flight attendants with a champagne bottle and a plastic knife, tried to open an exit door of an American Airlines plane, prosecutors said.
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Chevron Moves Its Headquarters to Houston From California
The oil company, which already has extensive operations in Texas, has often been at odds with California’s elected leaders over the state’s climate and energy policies.