Editor's note: A couple of weeks ago, we posted a "teaser" article about TIME magazine's positive article about California and its future. If you live in this state and are feeling hopeless about it, the TIME article is well worth reading in its entirety. Here's an excerpt, and a link to the full article:

Ignore the California whinery. It's still a dream state. In fact, the pioneering megastate that gave us microchips, freeways, blue jeans, tax revolts, extreme sports, energy efficiency, health clubs, Google searches, Craigslist, iPhones and the Hollywood vision of success is still the cutting edge of the American future — economically, environmentally, demographically, culturally and maybe politically.

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