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California, biomass energy advocates say, has struggled to get past its distrust of the technology, given traditional biomass’ checkered past of clear-cutting forests and polluting poorer communities.

In October, however, no one’s history has been more checkered.

Brown made sure to conceal his checkered past from potential business partners.

The first lady also has a checkered history when it comes to her prose.

The first film I saw in a theater was “The Love Bug,” Disney’s 1969 comedy about a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie and the motley team who race him to many a checkered flag.