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Column: This desalination plan stinks all the way from Orange County to Gov. Newsom's office


Column: This desalination plan stinks all the way from Orange County to Gov. Newsom s office
Steve Lopez
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Poseidon Water plans to build a seawater desalination plant next to this Huntington Beach power generation plant. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
With all that’s been going on in California during the pandemic, it’s been difficult at times to keep track of the latest state-sponsored debacles.
You d need a scorecard, a good set of reading glasses and a special prosecutor to stay on top of it all.
The botched vaccine rollout, mixed messaging and delivery inequities are enough to keep anyone busy. And when the state introduced the My Turn vaccination scheduling system, which was supposed to straighten things out, nobody was surprised to learn that it’s full of bugs, or that people of means managed to get vaccinations intended for low-income communities hardest hit by COVID-19. ....

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California's climate goals likely out of reach


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Stark disparities in campus reopenings
Two students wear face masks at All Saints’ Day School in Carmel on Dec. 10, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian
As California’s impasse over reopening schools drags on, its disparities are becoming clearer. Among the state’s richest schools, nearly 7 in 10 elementary school students attend a district offering some form of in-person learning compared to less than 1 in 10 students in districts with the highest poverty, according to an analysis of state data from CalMatters’ Ricardo Cano and Jeremia Kimelman. And the discrepancy between public and private schools is just as stark. Here’s a closer look at the numbers: ....

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Newsom pushes controversial Poseidon desalination plant


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When Gov. Gavin Newsom was photographed dining at an opulent Napa Valley restaurant during a surge in coronavirus cases, many Californians saw it as hypocrisy. For opponents of a planned $1-billion desalination plant along the Orange County coast, however, the optics were menacing.
The unmasked Newsom was celebrating the birthday of a lobbyist for Poseidon Water, which is close to obtaining final government approval for one of the country’s biggest seawater desalination plants.
Poseidon boasts that the facility will provide a local, inexhaustible source of water for Southern California. Critics complain that Newsom and his political appointees are exerting heavy influence to benefit a private company that would produce some of the state’s most expensive supplies. ....

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