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...
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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 “...
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May 14, 2012, 12:05 AM
For a good part of its rich history, residents of unincorporated Allensworth, the first African American colony west of the Mississippi, have gone without a reliable supply of safe drinking water. This is still the case today, where the Tulare County community’s wells –...
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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...
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Daily Report:
April 6, 2012, 12:24 AM
From its inception in 2009, California Watch has emphasized in-depth, high-impact reporting that delves not only into the issues Californians face, but also potential solutions. We understand that problems do not begin and end with a story’s publication, so we’re always trying to offer...
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April 6, 2012, 12:05 AM
Many residents in low-income, unincorporated neighborhoods across California are living in substandard conditions. Within this React & Act, you’ll find answers to frequently asked questions and more resources for the more than 1 million people living in California’s unincorporated communities.
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April 6, 2012, 12:05 AM
About 1.8 million Californians – primarily Latinos – live in low-income, unincorporated communities that lack sewers, clean drinking water, sidewalks, streetlights or gutters – infrastructure known to curb public health and safety risks. The U.S. Census Bureau only tracks some of them, and federal...
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April 6, 2012, 12:05 AM
California’s low-income unincorporated communities lack many public services, like sewer systems and clean water. Reporter Bernice Yeung spoke to residents about the challenges they face.
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April 6, 2012, 12:03 AM
About 1.8 million low-income and often Spanish-speaking Californians live in unincorporated communities that lack sewer systems, clean drinking water and other basic services.
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June 23, 2011, 12:05 AM
The word “was” is heard a lot around South Dos Palos, a speck on the map of the Central Valley southeast of Los Banos in Merced County. “This was the railroad station,” Denard Davis, a longtime county education leader, said as he drove by a spit of gravel and...
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