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OK, so we suck. By just about every measurable standard, the southern San Joaquin Valley is hardly a garden spot. We’re either tops at the bad stuff (air pollution, teen pregnancy, pedestrians getting run over in crosswalks) or we’re at the bottom of the heap for the good stuff (income, education and, I’m not making this up, romance). The latest entry in this never-ending parade of “why do we live here?” reports was “The Measure of America,” which came out earlier this month and looked at human development in terms of income, education and life expectancy. In a nutshell, we’re poor, ignorant and shouldn’t make plans past the age of 77. This report was somewhat more notable than all the rest in that it broke out its findings by congressional district. District 20 (represented by Jim Costa, D-Fresno, covering western Fresno and Kings counties then squiggling south through Delano and over to Lamont) was dead last of the...
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