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•Fires incinerated the facade of California governing competence
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National Weather Service issues rare " Particularly Dangerous Situation " fire warning for counties south of Tehachipis .
L.A. County errantly sent out to the phones of its 10 million residents an emergency evacuation order on Thursday .
California voters in 2014 passed Proposition 1 , the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act , which authorized $7.12 billion in water-related bond issues.
California does a piss-poor job of building any damn thing, let alone projects that are both ambitious and necessary.
Localized water capture in the vast, concretized floodplains between Santa Monica and Laguna Beach remains a work only beginning to progress.
Gavin Newsom called a special legislative session to "protect California values" against the scourge of Donald Trump .
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