Maybe Newsom was thinking about only property crimes since they’re so prominent in the new cycle, and inadvertently blurted out “violent crime.” So what do the numbers say? California recorded 2,331.2 incidents of property crime per 100,000 inhabitants in 2019. Texas? It was a little busier there: ​​2,390.7 incidents per 100,000 – roughly 2.6% higher, hardly a difference to brag about.

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DWR provides allocations three to four times during the water year, which runs from September to October, and also conducts a monthly snowpack survey from December or January until the snowpack melts in the spring or early summer. What’s bad about the December water allocation announcement is that it has never happened before.

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Reading the Senate Democrat budget vision, you’ll find a standard “redistribution of wealth” approach to state spending.  The introduction proclaims that, “as has been the case throughout the decade for nations, wealth has gone to the top leaving the middle class and struggling families behind.”
 
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This traffic congestion is no minor inconvenience. On the contrary, it’s at the root of the various existential threats facing the region. By one recent measure by INRIX, time wasted sitting in traffic costs Los Angeles approximately $8.2 billion each year.

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