April Snowpack Among Lowest on Record\u00a0<\/p>\n
April 1 is historically the time of peak snowpack – but not this year. Much of California\u2019s winter snow has been reduced to runoff, as early season heat melted the state\u2019s frozen reservoir. And this critical measurement looks to be one of the lowest snowpacks recorded in state history. Dr. Andrew Schwartz<\/a> is the Director of UC Berkeley\u2019s Central Sierra Snow Lab<\/a> at Donner Summit. Jeffrey Mount<\/a> is a Senior Fellow of the Water Policy Center at the Public Policy Institute of California. We\u2019ll learn what this means for our water supply, as we approach the drier months.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sac City Unified Budget Update<\/p>\n We are getting a clearer picture of the Sacramento City Unified\u2019s dire budget issues. The district is navigating poor financial waters for the second time in less than a decade. Once again, at risk of fiscal insolvency and facing the threat of state receivership. The latest financial report revealed a current budget deficit of $170 million. As the school board is making difficult decisions about where to cut costs, it came under fire after approving up to $400,000 to hire consultants to help untangle the budget – when the county and the state are already providing oversight. Jennah Pendleton<\/a> is the Education Reporter for the Sacramento Bee and joined us to provide an update on where things stand with SCUSD\u2019s budget saga.<\/p>\n Jazz Harpist Motoshi Kosako<\/p>\n As a young man in his native Japan, Mostoshi Kosako walked away from a lucrative promising medical career to become a jazz guitarist. He now divides his time between music and tending to his ranch in Oregon House<\/a>. CapRadio Music Program Director Gary Vercelli<\/a> interviewed jazz harpist Motoshi Kosako<\/a> ahead of his April 3 show at Twin Lotus Thai in Sacramento. On April 16, he\u2019ll participate in the World Harp Competition in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April Snowpack Among Lowest on Record\u00a0 April 1 is historically the time of peak snowpack – but not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[110450,701,702,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-247271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-april-snowpack-among-lowest-on-record-sac-city-unified-budget-update-jazz-harpist-motoshi-kosako","tag-capital-public-radio","tag-cpr","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}