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States with areas largely affected by the Southwest Blackout of 2011. The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, [1] [2] was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. [3]
In 2009, the University of California Regents approved a 32% (compounded for the year) tuition hike for the 2009–2010 school year. [23] The following years saw several large protests and actions across California in response to tuition hikes and other complaints against the UC administration, including 52 arrested on November 19, 2009 [24] and an attempt to block the local interstate on ...
[29]: 1 [23]: 1 [30]: 1 (For California as a whole, from 2011 to 2016, the state added only one new housing unit for every five new residents.) [14]: 1 This has driven home prices and rents to high levels, such that by 2017, the median price of a home across California was more than 2.5 times the median in the U.S. as a whole, and in California ...
The state’s housing crisis is even bigger than its staggering homeless problem. For one, a majority of California’s renters pay more than 30% of their income toward rent, and nearly a third ...
As skyrocketing costs and mass exoduses define the Golden State, Democrats face a crucial reckoning.
Occupy Oakland refers to a collaboration and series of demonstrations in Oakland, California, that started in October 2011. As part of the Occupy movement, protesters have staged occupations, most notably at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall. Occupy Oakland began as a protest encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on October 10, 2011.
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YouTube's initial headquarters was above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. [11] The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005, with video upload options being integrated on April 23, 2005, with the slogan "Tune In, Hook Up" ─ the original idea of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.