"Simply Put, California Is Prospering"

"Our world, our way of life, our system of governance—all are at immediate and genuine risk. Endless new weapons systems, growing antagonism among nations, the poison in our politics, climate change.
"All of this calls out for courage, for imagination and for generous dialogue. In recent days, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in cities across America to participate in the Women's March. At the same time, activists championed the cause in our nation's capital of those young people we call the Dreamers. In all this, California was in the forefront, showing the way.
"But there is much more to do. Much more to do. All of us—whatever our party or philosophy—have a role to play in defending and advancing our democracy."

The Los Angeles Times transcribes Jerry Brown's sixteenth, and final, State of the State Address.