Drive out Highway 126 from Castaic Junction to the Pacific Ocean and take a good look at the orange and lemon groves, strawberry patches, flower factories, palm forests and avocado jungles that line the Santa Clara River. All told, that's a $700 million industry annually.
And now, some cloistered bureaucrats in Sacramento think the good people of the Santa Clarita Valley should subsidize the growers' production, just because we live here and drink water.
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