Why Is California the Way It Is?
Why is Sacramento the capital? Why is SF positioned where it is? Why is San Jose bigger? Why did LA emerge to become the biggest city in the region? Why is the Central Valley so productive?
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Why is Sacramento the capital? Why is SF positioned where it is? Why is San Jose bigger? Why did LA emerge to become the biggest city in the region? Why is the Central Valley so productive?
Discovery On January 24, 1848, California was still a part of the Mexican Republic - barely. In just over a week's time, The United States of America an...
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This is a column of selected reader responses to columns that have appeared in this space from two weeks to two years ago.