Government knew for years failed California levee was in bad shape: report

Government officials knew for decades that a California levee that failed last weekend was due to burst, yet did nothing about it, according to a report published Sunday. The town of Pajaro, a primarily Spanish-speaking migrant community south of the Bay Area on the banks of the Pajaro River, was simply too poor for the government to care, the Los Angeles Times reported. “It’s a low-income area. It’s largely farmworkers that live in the town of Pajaro,” Sam Townsley of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told the L.A. Times....