Center News and Notes

A Small-Town Feeling Between the Bay and the Central Valley Main Street in downtown Pleasanton, California.   Michael C.

Randy Fiorini in his Merced County walnut orchard. Five years ago, the Fiorini home’s groundwater well ran dry.

Even after record-setting fires devastated communities around the West, resistance to policies to reduce housing vulnerability persists, particularly if they constrain development.

Manifold Destiny Members of an 81-vehicle Army convoy struggled to get a truck back on the road – such as it was – during a cross-country trip in the summer of 1919.