She was also a part of the Lake Tahoe restoration, the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration and the Headwater's Forest agreement. ... The senator reinforces her preservation views of natural resources through her support of the healthy forest movement, the Headwater's Forest agreement, and the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration. ... Also significantly, there is the restoration of the San Fran Bay Wetlands, which is considered the most prevalent in the state of California. This was an exchange of both private and public subsidy for "16,500 acres of salt ponds along the S...

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Fred Dillon, Policy Director at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, compares the costs of syringes to HIV treatment as fifteen cents for a syringe at a pharmacy and $34,000 a year to treat an individual infected with HIV ("Advocates"). ...

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Brittany's story went viral when she and her family uprooted their lives from San Francisco, California, and relocated to Oregon, where 29 year old Brittany could have the right to die with dignity. ... Brittany said, "I considered passing away in hospice care at my San Francisco Bay-area home. ...

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The Locavore movement began in San Francisco when four women decided to promote a theory in which eating foods that were only grown or produced within a 100 mile radius would create a sustainable food system within the city. ...

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In his address to the nation on creating an amendment that would ban homosexual marriages, Bush was quoted as saying, "In San Francisco, city officials have issued thousands of marriage licenses to people of the same gender, contrary to the California Family Code. ...

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 One of the actions I took to promote a system change was to partner with The John Burton Foundation (JBF), The Children's Law Center (CLC) and Larkin Street Youth Services (LSYS) and go up to the Sacramento State Capitol and Lobby and inform legislators about SB 528 (Parents in Foster Care). First, I would like to give a brief summary of SB 528. The passage of this bill ensures access to child care by prioritizing foster youth who are parents for subsidized child care. Parenting and pregnant youth are 200% are more likely to drop out of high school than to graduate from high school,...

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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various subjects in their native tongues. Such subjects are Math, History and some Science classes. The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ...

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The events which followed James W Marshall's discovery of gold in Coloma, California during the year of 1848 were important not only because of the fact that it generated the expatriation of approximately 300,000 people (who were commonly referred to as the 49er's to signify their arrival during 1849) to the state of California but also made San Francisco grow from a small settlement of around 200 people to a boomtown of about 36000 people by 1852 and the immigrants helped forge the modern American culture that is eminent today. ...

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