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VOL. 34, No. 44
Our Water is Better Than We Think From rivers and reservoirs Metropolitan delivers quality
Oroville Dam is on the Feather River above the city of Oroville in Butte County, California. It creates Lake Oroville, generates electricity, and provides drinking and irrigation water for Central and Southern California. (Kenneth Miller/ Photo)
the highest in quality in the world. In this modern craze and economic It is often under valued and fre- boon of resale bottle water, many of quently even less appreciated, but the us are not aware of the quality of wawater in Southern California is among ter that runs from our tap, in our apartBy Kenneth Miller, Publisher
ments, homes, parks and schools. Half of the drinking water in China (population of 1,433,783,686) is contaminated and the well chronicled water crisis of Flint, Michigan has sound
the alarm in municipalities throughout America. Thankfully for citizens in Inglewood and throughout the region the wholesale wa- Continued on page 2
State Legislators Failed Newspapers in AB 5 How will community papers survive? By Kenneth Miller, Publisher
Black owned and community newspapers in the state of California are going to endure a rude and new brutal reality on January 1, 2020 when California Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) becomes law. AB 5, introduced by Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, limits the use of classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than employees by companies in California. Theorizing that employees are entitled to greater labor protections that
are not applicable to independent contractors, AB 5 is a misguide approach to the dilemma. The spirit of the law was purely labor union biased, but also fueled by the gig economy, individuals such as Lyft and Uber drivers who felt shorted by the industry in terms of compensation. The legislation was approved along party lines with Democrats favoring the bill 56-15 in the Assembly, 29-11 in the Senate and finalized with the signature of Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom. Continued on page 2 JOIN US ON