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A San Francisco High School Could Be Named After Jerry Garcia
The Grateful Dead songwriter is on a list of names considered for the honour
Published Jan 29, 2021
Earlier this week, the San Francisco Unified School District voted to rename 44 schools named after controversial public figures, and among the new namesakes in consideration for the city-wide rebranding is Grateful Dead co-founder Jerry Garcia.
The
reports that at the recommendation of students and school board members, Garcia s name is in consideration alongside figures including Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Barack Obama, newly minted U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to become the namesake of a school in the city.
18 Dec 2020
The failed state of California is bleeding enough population to lose a House seat and an electoral vote.
There are only so many seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and so many electoral votes, and those are earned based on your specific state’s proportion of the population when compared to the rest of the country.
Between July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020, the
San Diego Tribunereports that “California saw a net gain of only 21,200 new residents a 0.05% growth rate not seen since 1900.”
Worst growth rate in 120 years.
Los Angeles County lost a net of 40,036 people during that time.
Over the full year of 2020, the