California: Attention Must Be Paid
Californians don’t get much attention from the national press corps.
I’m not talking about celebrities. I’m talking about pavement people – the kind who get up and face traffic jams at 5 o’clock in the morning.
Normally, these folks don’t show up on television news unless they’re crawling out from rubble. There are plenty of disasters here. [...]







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