Darry Sragow, a leading political campaign consultant and a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, has been bicoastal from birth until today. But Sragow, a fifth-generation Californian on his mom’s side, affirmed, “Home is Los Angeles.” Below, Sragow, who joined Zócalo for a panel on whether California should be its own country, tells us more about himself.
David Dayen, a blogger at Calitics and Hullaballoo, was born in Philadelphia and moved to California in 1998. Before taking the stage at the Autry National Center to chat about whether California should be its own country, Dayen told us a bit more about himself.
California has a lot going for it. As New America Foundation senior fellow Joe Mathews explained, California boasts 17 of the top 30 American tech companies — including Google and Facebook — receives three times as many patents as the next most inventive state, hosts five of the country’s top 10 universities by research funding, and is larger in size and population and economy than many of the world’s countries. And by the latest estimate, California only gets about 80 cents for every dollar it pays in federal taxes.
by Laura Dunn
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where a bit of ash scoots past
our feet. Ash cast
More than 100 years after the first World’s Fair in 1851, the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair opened on April 22, 1964. Like its predecessors, the fair, masterminded by planner Robert Moses, showed off the latest technological innovations. And appropriately for its time, the fair boosted for world peace and cross-cultural acceptance, debuting none other than Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” attraction. But the fair’s ambitions may have been too high. Below, John Steele Gordon explains how the event turned into something of a disaster.
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