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The passage of Proposition 36 — a sweeping overhaul of Proposition 47 — has been projected to lengthen prison sentences, and, consequentially, money for programs the older measure created is expected to dwindle.

Some point to recent government administrations’ disinvestment from mental health services for Dutch youth: Touwen told Undark that services have markedly declined as a result and waitlists for treatment have lengthened.

“There is some evidence that summer dry periods in the western U.S. are liable to lengthen, resulting in longer fire seasons,” Bond said.

Wildfires are increasingly burning homes and other structures as more people move into the wildland-urban interface, temperatures rise and fire seasons lengthen.

The annual flow of copyrighted works into the public domain underscores how the progressive lengthening of copyright protection is counter to the public interest—indeed, to the interests of creative artists.