"California" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it anytime to refer to the US state. For example: "The Golden State of California is known for its sunny beaches and Hollywood movie stars."
Related: California drought brings sound of silence to baked, barren farms In California's second-largest city, memories are still fresh of a devastating drought 25 years ago that saw the area's water supplies slashed by about a third.
Besides, the groups argued, "We lost the right to marry in California at the ballot box.
The proposal is put to California voters as a referendum on 6 November.
Some believe the weather is already being shaped by "chemtrails" – aeroplane contrails deliberately laced with toxic chemicals – and mysterious weather warmongers are, for reasons unknown, making the eastern US unbearably chilly and California stricken by drought.
Think of this, if you like, as a kind of California ranch-style kitchen-sink.
As a teenager in California he had devoured Musto's Village Voice columns and been thunderstruck by seeing Arias sing Billie Holiday songs in 1988 cult documentary Mondo New York.
The most important non-Southwest partner in the operation, according to the affidavit, appears to be Donald Holland, who claimed to be an account executive at Lathrop, California-based A&L Investments (investigators have cast doubt on this claim) and had a prior arrest in 2009 for possession of 2kg (4.5lb) of cocaine.
And in the US, though breast pumps, vasectomies and artificial teeth are sales tax-exempt and tax-deductible medical care, tampons are not even exempted from sales tax in some states (including California and New York, two of the most populous states).
I read a small item in a specialist newsletter I get by email, called Daily Virology News, headlined "Two cases of swine flu in Orange County, California".
I met him when he served as a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the winter of 2002.
