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If you listen to California’s political class, the high-speed rail project sounds like a textbook boondoggle, writes CalMatters' commentary editor Yousef Baig. Yet in communities across California’s farm belt, the discourse is different. High-speed rail isn’t “a train to nowhere” – it’s a symbol of transformation.
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The man who carried a Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol during last week’s insurrection was arrested yesterday for an act that served as a reminder…
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On Christmas Eve, it felt like the park was all ours.When I was growing up in the 1980s and early ’90s, Disneyland was so reliably empty on the day before…
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The concept of individual liberty was a key component in our country’s birth. Yet 238 years after Thomas Jefferson wrote about the unalienable rights of…
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College may prepare students for good careers, but these days, it also pushes many already poor students into lifelong debt. In this segment of FM89’s…
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It seems lately that we are bombarded by social and international crises and threats. Incurable diseases and clandestine terrorists are lurking, and…
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America’s public schools have been called a laboratory for society. In this edition of FM89’s commentary series The Moral Is, Jacques Benninga of Fresno…
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What happens if you do all the right things as you pursue the American dream? You graduate from high school. Then college. You work for one employer 25…
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By know you've heard that the San Francisco Giants have decided to pack up their bags and move their AAA farm team up Highway 99 to Sacramento. But the…
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For years, many people subscribed to the idea that progress in society was inevitable. But in today’s world, the question of whether we are better off…
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Felony disenfranchisement laws have a long history in the United States, but individual state laws vary considerably. Recently the U.S. Attorney General…
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For many, climate change is still and unsettled issue. Yet it is indisputable that throughout its long history, our planet Earth has undergone major…