Diana Marcum writes about life in the small towns and rural areas of California for the Los Angeles Times. In 2015, she won the Pulitzer Prize for narrative portraits of farm workers, farmers and others in California’s drought-stricken Central Valley. She is the author of “The Tenth Island, Finding Joy, Beauty and Unexpected Love in the Azores.”
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The man known as the godfather of California’s organic farming died of cancer at the farm where he loved to work.
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In the dusty fields of the San Joaquin Valley, “El Profe” brings masks, music and help to farm laborers, some of whom are barely scraping by.
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As medical providers plead with their communities to help them control the coronavirus, some workers and business owners say they can’t afford to listen.
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Column One: Armenian Americans marvel at an elder’s generosity as they grieve over an ancestral home
Column One: Armenian Americans marvel at an elder’s generosity as they grieve over an ancestral home
Clara Margossian, 102, built a life in Fresno after her family fled the Armenian genocide. With the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, she has given $1 million to help Armenia, a homeland she’s never seen.
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It’s no secret that Stan Yagi hires ex-convicts. He makes it his mission to teach them about life.
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In a small town, it can be hard to be any kind of different. But sometimes a person can be so much a part of the fabric of life that he sets his own rules.
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Opal Goode turned 112 in June, about a month before the big earthquakes that still have this town rumbling.
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When Annie Williams heard that California’s plan for high-speed rail had been scaled back to 119 miles through the Central Valley, her head jerked back.
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The editor-publisher of California’s oldest weekly newspaper has rules for his publication: No children on the front page (“I loathe children”).