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Some California Cities Living in the Last Century by Requiring Lawns to be Green--by Robert Cruikshank
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/07/some_califor...
Excerpted from the article...
"It sounds like one of those stories that conservatives often use to
make government look bad - the city of Sacramento is fining a household
$746 for letting their lawn die to save water. But the real issue here
isn't government - it's whether California will abandon wasteful and
even elitist 20th century values to meet the needs of the 21st century.
This basic tension according to the Sacramento Bee: