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California’s leading example on climate change helped inspire US-China agreement by jennifer schlueter Last Wednesday, President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jingping have agreed on drastically fighting climate change by capping greenhouse gases. By 2025, the Unites States wants to cut its harmful emissions below 2005 levels to 2628%, as AlterNet reports. Instead of only promising to decrease the rapid growth rate of its emissions, China now “has agreed to cap its output by 2030 or earlier if possible,” according to AlterNet. Even though China and the US have their different views on human rights, economics and politics, their leaders certainly agree about their obligations as the “world’s largest economies and greatest emitters of greenhouse gases,” as Obama titled them at a press conference. “We have special responsibility to lead the global effort against climate change. I am proud we can announce a historic agreement. I commend President Xi, his team and the Chinese government for their making to slow, peak and then reverse China’s carbon emissions.” California, the most populous U.S. state, leads the nation with its Cap-and-Trade Program, making a huge effort to reduce greenhouse gases by, for instance, charging businesses that produce
cludes highlights of his life and U.S. history, said the paper. “The burning of Lowell School and the crisis which followed is firmly etched in my memory,” Littleworth wrote in the book. The fire was arson, Please see page 2
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change of any political jurisdiction in the world.” He added: “What happens here doesn’t stay here, it goes all around the globe.” Please see page 4
No Easy Way: Riverside school integration documented by Vickie Vértiz Riverside is celebrating the release of No Easy Way: Integrating Riverside Schools – A Victory for Community, by Arthur L. Littleworth, who was Riverside school board president at the time when half of segregated Lowell School burned down Sept. 7, 1965. Ac-
cording to the Press Enterprise, in October 1965, Riverside Unified School District became the first large district in the nation to integrate its schools without a court order. Poly High School is rededicating the Littleworth Theater with a timeline mural that in-
Governor Brown appoints two to Riverside County Superior Court Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Susanne S. Cho and James T. Latting to judgeships in the Riverside County Superior Court. Cho, 48, of Palm Desert, has been an attorney at the Law Offices of Rodney Lee Soda since 2004. She served as a deputy public defender at the Riverside County Public Defender’s Office from 1994 to 2004. Cho earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge David B. Downing. Cho is a Democrat. Cho will be the first Korean American woman judge ever appointed to the Riverside County Superior Court. Latting, 65, of Palm Desert, has been of counsel at Roemer and Harnik LLP since 2002. He was general counsel and managing general partner at Latting and Co. from 1996 to 2002 and from 1984 to 1988. Latting was a partner at George, Hull, Porter and Kohli P.S. from 1990 to 1996 and an associate at Bogle and Gates from 1988 to 1990, where he was an associate from 1979 to 1981. He was a partner at Bratcher, Owen, Latting, Teague and Owen from 1981 to 1984 and an associate at Crowe and Dunlevy from 1978 to 1979.
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pollutants. Governor Jerry Brown stands fully behind the program and said in an interview with The Associated Press that ““California has the most integrated response and strategy to deal with climate
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