California's large Filipino American community also embraced freestyle music during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The University of California's campuses boast large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every field and it is widely regarded as one of the top public university systems in the world.

Mules are still used extensively to transport cargo in rugged roadless regions, such as the large wilderness areas of California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

California's labor movements began in San Francisco, the only large city in California for decades and once the center of trade-unionism west of the Rockies.

California's Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of California.

California's low national K-12 education rankings and Davis ' campaign pledge to help education, along with the large majority that elected Davis to his first term and his early popularity, suggest that a majority of Californians supported increases in education spending during the early part of his first term when California was in budget surplus.

Then, the dot-com boom that had been fueling California's record tax revenues burst unexpectedly because of the large number of high tech firms in California and California's dependence on state income taxes.

Vista has one of Southern California's only two Japanese American cultural centers, due to the North County region's large Japanese community and historical presence in the agricultural industries goes back to the 1890's.

In the mid-1990s, multiple large retail centers, including one of California's largest outlet malls and movie theater were built south of US 101 and west of Carmen Drive.

Because of California's large size and diverse geography, the state can be subdivided in other ways as well.

As governor, Brown was again California's favorite son in 1960, winning his home state with a large margin to his only opponent George H. McLain .< ref >

Capitalizing on Southern California's sunny weather is the large courtyard ( wide and long ) in the front, complete with a fountain and queen palm trees.

California's is in the center, directly below a large American bald eagle, and is the only seal with supporters: two California grizzly bears.

California's Central Valley was once a large temperate grassland, the California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, which was formerly home to great herds of grazing pronghorn and elk ; some writers have referred to it as " America's Serengeti ".

It passes to the east of California's Great America, a large substation, and the San Francisco 49ers training facility before stopping at the Great America station under the Tasman Dr. overpass.

Palm Desert bands built a large local following by frequently performing at bars and parties in and around the isolated towns of Southern California's desert areas.

The U. S. Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) supervises several large off-road vehicle areas in California's Mojave Desert.

Heavy property taxation and especially sudden, large increases in appraised valuations caused by infrequent or inaccurate appraisals are major causes of local political discontent in jurisdictions throughout the United States and in other countries ( see California's Proposition 13 or Proposition 2½ in Massachusetts ).

He accompanied soldier-explorer Juan Bautista de Anza part way in both his large overland expeditions: the legendary 1774 De Anza Expedition-the first to reach Alta California's Pacific coast ; and the 1775-76 Anza Colonizing Expedition-with the first European sighting of the San Francisco Bay.

Southern California's romance with the automobile owes in large part to resentment of the Southern Pacific Railroad's tight control over the region's commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

These included the Tebtunis Archive of ancient papyri, excavated by an Egyptian expedition funded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst in 1899-1900 and the largest such collection in the Western Hemisphere ; the papers of Mark Twain, the object of the Mark Twain Project, which since 1965 has been editing everything written by him ; a large collection of medieval manuscripts, incunabula, and rare printed books from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries ; and the literary manuscripts of such California writers as Ina Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate, George Sterling, figures associated with the Beat Generation in San Francisco, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Philip Whalen, and William Everson ( Brother Antoninus ), and contemporary authors such as John Mortimer, Sean O ' Faolain, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joan Didion.

At San Ignacio, Baja California's arid Central Desert terrain gives way to a large grove of lush green date palms.

Herms, a professor of parasitology at the University of California had been working on large commercial insect traps for over 20 years for protection of California's important fruit industry.

The University of Southern California's Center for Urban Education names NMSU as one of the top 25 institutions with " effective practices for increasing the number of Latino recipients " of bachelor's degrees in the STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math — fields.

* 1984: Los Angeles Times, " for an in-depth examination of southern California's growing Latino community by a team of editors and reporters.

Ron Gonzales was elected the first Latino Mayor of San Jose since California's Statehood.

Desert chaparral grows above California's desert cactus scrub plant community, and below the Pinyon-juniper woodland.

* California Community Colleges System, combined districts of California's community colleges

Though the couple never married, she sought financial compensation similar to that available to spouses under California's alimony and community property laws.

( She later became California's first poet laureate and an important figure in the San Francisco literary community ).

Since the 1920s, Lancaster had been the much larger and principal community of the Antelope Valley, as well as the rest of California's Mojave Desert.

* Northridge, Los Angeles, California, a community in California's San Fernando Valley

Waxman's most recent district ( until 2012 ), California's 30th congressional district, included Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Malibu, West Hollywood, and Westlake Village as well as such areas of Los Angeles as West Los Angeles, Fairfax, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Beverlywood, Topanga, Chatsworth, Palms, Westwood, West Hills, Westside Village, Woodland Hills, but through the creation of a new 33rd Congressional District by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, in the November 2012 general election Waxman will be competing for re-election in an area including his home community of Beverly Hills and stretching to Malibu and Pacific-coastal communities heading south including Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The community is within California's 30th congressional district.

In response to the recession of 2008, a coalition of community based organizations, farmers and academic institutions in California's Pomona Valley formed the Pomona Valley Urban Agriculture Initiative.

Locke (), also known as Locke Historic District, is an unincorporated community in California's Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta built by Chinese immigrants during the early 20th century.

Outrage within San Francisco's gay community over the resulting seven-year sentence sparked the city's White Night Riots ; general disdain for the outcome of the court case led to the elimination of California's " diminished capacity " law.

Using California's community property laws, they get the distribution and final-cut rights by persuading Sally to sign them over.

Citing the " likely " threat to California's academic competitiveness if Proposition 8 were passed, Birgeneau urged the UC Berkeley community to vote against a 2008 state ballot measure which would eliminate the right of gays and lesbians to marry.

v. Roman Stearns et al., a judge upheld the University of California's rejection of A Beka publications for preparatory use because the books are " inconsistent with the viewpoints and knowledge generally accepted in the scientific community.

Leaders of the San Diego business community considered this move a blow to San Diego County's economic landscape and a symbol of the state of California's problems in attracting and keeping businesses.

College of the Sequoias ( COS ) is a public two-year community college located in Visalia in Tulare County, in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Slope effect, a vegetational result of aspect, in evidence in the coastal sage scrub community of southern California | California's Santa Monica Mountains | Santa Monica Mtns.

Santa Rosa Junior College librarians were leaders in the early movement to promote information literacy in California's community colleges, and SRJC was among the first of the colleges to institute an information literacy requirement for graduation.

East Oakland, together with West Oakland and portions of North Oakland, are the heart and soul of Northern California's African American community.

The CCCS is a founding and charter member of CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the nonprofit organization which provides extremely high-performance Internet-based networking to California's K-12 research and education community.

As of July, 2011, per-unit fees at California's community colleges stand at $ 36 per unit.