I'm personally sympathetic to the plight of these Indians. But should California rate-payers be paying for the investments and job training they want? You could argue either side.

California has been AWOL on developing BPL while other states have been forging ahead with testing and commercial development of this new technology.

The bag was a hybrid I had picked up at a store called Suitcase City while I was plotting my comeback. [...] It had a logo on it -- a mountain ridgeline with the words "Suitcase City" printed across it like the Hollywood sign. Above it, skylights swept the horizon, completing the dream image of desire and hope. I think that logo was the real reason I liked the bag. Because I knew Suitcase City wasn't a store. It was a place. It was Los Angeles.

The day humanity decides not to ignore the plight of fellow man, that day humanity will free itself from ignorance.

Why are taxpayers in California and Texas and Massachusetts paying for a museum in Indianapolis?

California has the highest per capita rate of incarceration of any state - or it did until Proposition 36.