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Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Unincorporated neighborhood finally getting sewer service

March 27, 2013, 1:26 PM
The unincorporated neighborhood of Parklawn, one of hundreds of impoverished California communities that lack basic services, celebrated a breakthrough this month when Stanislaus County broke ground on a new sewer line connecting the district to the city of Modesto. Parklawn, which has... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Mobile home park residents sue owner over sewage, electricity

October 2, 2012, 12:05 AM
Lilia Avila has lived for a decade in the Garcia Mobile Home Park in the Eastern Coachella Valley with her husband and three children. Ask her to describe the park, surrounded by farmland and empty lots in the unincorporated town of Thermal, and she doesn’t mince words: “It’s a... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Money and Politics

Bill aims to improve water rights for mobile home park residents

August 31, 2012, 12:05 AM
A bill the state Legislature approved this week would allow mobile home park residents who have been charged excessive water rates by their landlords to seek restitution. The bill, which is headed to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, stems from a 2009 complaint [PDF] filed by residents of the... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Private wells outside Fresno test positive for contaminants

July 23, 2012, 12:05 AM
Locals like to say that Easton is closer to Fresno than parts of Fresno, but as an unincorporated community seven miles south of downtown, residents relish its small-town ways. “We don’t have the same commodities and resources, but we can hear the crickets at night and it’s... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Listening to the unincorporated

July 17, 2012, 6:43 AM
Last weekend, California Watch health and welfare reporter Bernice Yeung and I traveled to Fresno for a meeting with representatives from unincorporated communities across the state. The four-hour-plus session, held in English and Spanish, was a follow-up to Yeung’s April report “... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Unincorporated South Dos Palos struggles with economic development

April 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
Once a thriving rural community with a nearly equal number of bars and churches, South Dos Palos, an unincorporated area in Merced County, has been in decline for decades. But it’s still possible to make out the contours of the community from a time when it was a growing place. On the... + read more
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