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PROBLEM: California Gov. Jerry Brown (D)  delivers  his  final State of the State address in Sacramento on Jan. 25. Democrats who want to replace  him  are aiming even further left in a state already known for its liberal politics. (Pool/Reuters)
Here in the self-labeled âstate of resistance â the political debate is being pushed further left without any sign of a Republican renaissance to serve as a check on spending and social policy ambitions. Even some Republicans are concerned about the departure of Gov. Jerry Brown (D)  who proved to be fiscally cautious after inheriting a state seven years ago in deep recession.
âYou are going to be talking about Democrat-on-Democrat crime  for the most part â said Bill Whalen  a research fellow at Stanford Universityâs Hoover Institution. âWhat also is certain is that the next governor is going to be more progressive than Jerry Brown.â
In his final State of the State address on Jan. 25   Brown  said California is âprospering â a nod to a growing economy that is the sixth-largest in the world.
But in an interview after the speech   Brown  said that âdoes not mean all Californians are prospering â and  he  made a distinction between the coastal âconsulting classâ and rural laborers whose âculture of working with their handsâ is disappearing.
âThe state is more divided â  Brown  said. âAnd itâs divided this way right across the country.â
 Brown  said  he  is uncertain whether  he  will endorse in the race to succeed  him   even though Newsom also is a Bay Area Democrat who  on climate change in particular  supports the governorâs policies. Some of  Brown âs transportation initiatives  including a high-speed rail project from Los Angeles to San Francisco that is bursting its budget  remain in question.
âI donât think the people of Tulare County or Modoc County want to hear from  Jerry Brown  on who to vote for. Maybe the people in Oakland would  I donât know â  Brown  said. âIâll decide what to do based on 45 years of campaigning in this state.â

SOLUTION: Jerry Brown

PROBLEM: Story highlights  Nigerian singer Lamboginny  is performing at the country's prisons
 He  says  he  wants to give prisoners a second chance
Lagos (CNN) When  Yinka Lawanson (better known by his stage name "Lamboginny")  launched  his  debut album in October 2017   he  chose Nigeria's Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison as the venue.
 Lamboginny  held  his  first concert at Kirikiri  in Lagos  in 2009  performing before a large audience of prisoners. These days   he  holds three or four concerts in different prisons every year.
"What makes me happy is when I see that smile of hope on their faces "  he  says. "This is for them to know that life has not turned its back on them."

SOLUTION: Lamboginny

PROBLEM: Sitting across a boardroom table   Gloria Allred  looks exactly as  she  did during any one of the thousands of TV appearances  she 's made in the last 40 years. The red power suit ( she  has a closet full of them)  chunky gold jewelry  puckish smile â it's all the same. What appears different about the 76-year-old lawyer has nothing to do with  her  personally  and everything to do with the way society has  at last  begun to catch up with  her . Now the same perspective shift that changed Bill Cosby from a beloved TV dad to an accused rapist in the public consciousness  is casting the woman most responsible for making the accusations against him public in a different light too.  She 's been derided for years as a spotlight-seeking opportunist â and now  finally   Allred  is getting  her  due.
Seeing Allred  a new documentary which recently premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and began streaming on Netflix on February 9th  chronicles  her  career as pioneering civil rights lawyer  relentless advocate for gender equality and tireless champion for sexual harassment and abuse victims. The film traces virtually every aspect of  Allred 's life  from  her  birth in Philadelphia 76 years ago through to last yearâs Womenâs March on Washington. (Regrettably  it stops just short of capturing the activist in the thick of #MeToo  the movement she helped lay the groundwork for; ditto the Harvey Weinstein scandal that embroiled  Gloria  and  her  daughter  and the defeat of Roy Moore  which she helped engineer.) She has somehow managed to spend decades at the white-hot center of every polarizing national news story â from OJ Simpson to marriage equality â without ever once soliciting a client.
Rolling Stone spoke with  Allred  about  her  life   her  work   her  thoughts on the documentary ... and everything it missed.
It's insulting to think that sexual harassment is about shaking someone's hand. It's not â legally  that's not sexual harassment. Even if the person didnât consent to having their hand shaken. That doesnât meet the legal standard. So I think itâs insulting to suggest that. Itâs insulting to those who allege that they have been drugged and sexually assaulted by Mr. Cosby. In a way  it minimizes what theyâve said. So whether he's just trying to be funny â drugging and sexually assaulting someone is not funny ... if    in fact  he did  it . And the allegations by more than half a million women on #MeToo â thatâs not a laughing matter. It's not about shaking hands  that hashtag.

SOLUTION:
Gloria Allred