For the first time in a decade, more people left California last year for other states than arrived. Gavin Newsom (D) has responded specifically in some cases, but in others, he has invoked the California Dream, an adjective attached to no other state. ADThose slopes, prepared by one of the state’s largest fires in history at the time, slid during rain-saturated mudslides in January 2018. But few residents of Oroville, a conservative, roll-with-the-punches kind of frontier place, are discouraged enough to leave California. “California is always going to be California,” said Judy McClure, 69, a retired school librarian.

Source: Washington Post September 12, 2020 22:42 UTC