In 2014, California’s state legislature passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a sweeping law with the goal of balancing the amount of water pumped out of underground aquifers with the amount returned through recharge. How that balancing act would actually work was left up to hundreds of locally governed …
Read More »School Health Care Workers Weigh In On Students Returning To Campus – COVID-19 Update For April 9
The end of the pandemic may finally be approaching: With 1.2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered in the San Joaquin Valley, 15 percent of adults have now been fully vaccinated, and another 12 percent have received at least one dose. Meanwhile, all Valley counties have now advanced out …
Read More »UC Merced and other universities weigh first tuition hikes in 6 years
Faced with record enrollment and the need to hire faculty, university authorities are considering raising tuition at UC Merced and other state schools for the first time in six years. … Click to Continue »
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