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The south and west faces of Mount Shasta have been completely free of snow most of the summer. TONY D'SOUZA/Mount Shasta News  
News  

Dire shortage

DWR calls drought ‘most significant in state’s history’

A drive along the I-5 corridor between Mount Shasta and Redding will quickly let even the casual observer know that California is experiencing a severe drought. The sight of a bare Mount Shasta and the exposed banks of Shasta Lake serve as stark and constant reminders of the situation unfolding throughout the North State. (Mount Shasta News)
As rates soar, a slowdown in the municipal market forces state and local governments to cut back on new municipal debt issues. NEW YORK TIMES  
Times  

Financial fallout

Under strain, cities and states are cutting back projects

Cities, states and other local governments have been effectively shut out of the bond markets for the last two weeks, raising the cost of day-to-day operations, threatening longer-term projects and dampening a broad source of jobs and stability at a time when other parts of the economy are weakening. (New York Times)

Rogene Reynolds, who grew up on Roberts Island west of Stockton, describes how up to 37,000 acres of land could be flooded if state officials decide to use the island as a flood plain. MICHAEL McCOLLUM/The Record  
Record  

Flood of worries

Families fear Delta project could force them out

Residents of Roberts Island have become alarmed over a pair of maps issued more than a year ago — maps that suggest using Roberts Island and Stewart Tract, where a major housing development is planned, as a flood plain to protect Lathrop and Stockton from a raging San Joaquin River. (Stockton Record)

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— Kurt Vonnegut

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North Tahoe Public Utility District

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A contract worker with Utility Services Co. welds repair patches over corroded areas of North Tahoe PUD's Carnelian Woods #2 tank. The rehabilitation project aims to bring the 500,000-gallon storage tank up to safety codes. Rehabilitating the existing tank rather than replacing it was done to make the best use of existing district assets and funds.
A handful of leaks have been found and repaired, and more than 300 reconstructive patches have been welded over the corroded areas.
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Maury Wills, 76; Rex Reed, 70; Don McLean, 63; Annie Leibovitz, 59; Sting, 57; Lorraine Bracco, 54; Robbie Nevil, 50; Kelly Ripa, 38.

On this Day in 1967
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first African American to serve on the high court.

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