When Kermit the Frog sang, "It's not easy being green," he wasn't thinking about trees. For many of them, it's not only not easy, it's impossible to be green — at least when fall comes along.
Maybe we've gotten so used to big figures — usually billions, sometimes trillions — that it doesn't register what $25 million in cuts will mean for the Modesto City Schools.
The facts aren't in dispute. Federal judges for the Eastern District of California, which includes the valley, are the most overworked in the country. Each judge averages 1,004 filings per year. Compare that with the next highest — 821 filings in Minnesota, and the average, 471 for judges in all federal district courts.
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