#California Legislature bill would increase funding for school salaries by 50% within 7 years. It is supposed to go to teachers, aides, and specialists, but it doesn't require it.
I can see school superintendents and other administrators gobbling it up and leaving teachers underpaid.
One of the trainees in #AL had one (violating the rule about attaching one's own equipment to $EMPLOYER devices), but I did get to discuss how it felt. He said he'd purchased it at Walmart, so I went to both local stores without finding it. After I returned to #CA, I checked the smaller of the local stores and also checked Target. I ended up ordering it from Amazon.
#NOAA / #NWS relaying an #AMBER_Alert from #CHP and #Riverside City Police: parental abduction. 6 year old Hispanic girl, 3'2" tall, 50lb, brown hair, brown eyes; 2 year old Hispanic boy, 2'8" tall, 30lb, brown hair, brown eyes; father is 27 year old Hispanic male, 5'8" tall, 200lb, black hair, brown eyes, driving silver BMW 335i with #CA license plate 9AQR805.
Considered armed and dangerous. If seen, do not approach. Call 9-1-1 instead.
@gnu2 I am currently staying in a hotel in #AL, but I live in a house in #CA ... or in #MO ( #GS3 asked me when I am coming back home ). In a week or a month or a few of each, I will return home after my assignment is done.
( Current thinking is about three or four more weeks until I leave. )
In Irwindale, the water came out looking like diluted milk ... and stayed that way several minutes later. It is an old rock quarrying town, so I suspect it was just rock debris suspended in the water.
In Mississippi, the water came out yellow for a few days before getting clear again. The same thing happened in #Baton_Rouge, but it was only one or two days and it only happened once.
> CA is losing residents hour-by-hour, many bound for Texas. So much that multiple U-Haul locations have run out of available rentals
@fu I think there's more to it than that. Remember when #COVID-19 hit and as a result, travel & relocations cratered? Do you think U-haul, Ryder, Penske, etc continued to buy trucks? Not likely. So now, in addition to more people moving now that things are loosening up, there are fewer moving trucks available.
Automobile rental companies did the same thing.
But, yes, more US citizens are leaving #CA than are arriving. I think that has been true for about 20 years, but before, there were enough births and international arrivals to continue raising the state's population.
California's Governor Newsom makes cautious step toward meeting the state's water needs. https://nu.federati.net/url/287349 [www latimes com]
It is a tiny step, but #California is never going to catch up with its demand with these baby steps. There needs to be a massive statewide effort to meet 100% of projected water requirements for the next fifty years via #desalination. That includes residential, agricultural, industrial, plus supplementing natural rainfall to preserve forests and replenish ground water, and some extra water which can be made available for neighboring states' needs.
I feel like these #pollies are so busy trying not to displease entrenched interests that they are missing a historic opportunity to lead the way in responding to a 22 year drought that currently affects a giant chunk of the US from California to Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and beyond. See https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ and https://www.drought.gov/