The wage hike, to be paid out to stores’ entire employee pools, was putatively passed to help the “heroes of this pandemic.” They’re to be rewarded for “putting their lives on the line – often for low wages and minimal benefits – in order to sustain our food system and maintain healthy communities.”

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Even in California, whose agriculture is the world’s envy because of huge volume, high yields and sophistication, activists are promoting primitive, or “alternative,” practices that would obstruct innovation and resilience. These practices fall under the wastebasket rubric “agroecology.” Why a “wastebasket?” The study of agroecology has numerous definitions, many of which are idealistic blather and conjecture, much of which should be discarded.

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Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, elected in 2018 with 62% of the vote, appears to be in trouble. Several recall efforts have failed, but one is still active, and it has until March 17 to collect the 1,495,709 signatures needed before a recall election can be placed on the ballot. Already more than 900,000 have been gathered.

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PRI’s senior director of the Center for Education Lance Izumi joins KCBS Radio in Sacramento, CA, to discuss the changing SAT admissions process for college-bound students and the decisions by the University of California system to drop the SAT test.

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