• Educators sound alarm about teacher shortage

    Education advocates are calling on lawmakers to increase funding for programs to combat the teacher shortage. Around 37% of schools nationwide report being short at least one teacher. The problem is worse at schools serving high-poverty neighborhoods where more than half report a vacancy. Susan Kemper Patrick, a senior researcher on...
  • ¿Por qué es importante votar en 2024?

    “La política es el arte de lo posible, lo alcanzable, el arte de lo mejor”. La frase fue acuñada por el militar y político Otto von Bismarck, acreditado con la hazaña de lograr la reunificación de Alemania en 1871. Más de 150 años después, la sabiduría contenida en la expresión de...
  • ROAD HOUSE REIMAGINES A CULT CLASSIC FOR NEW AUDIENCES

    AMAZON                    Road House stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Dalton, an ex-UFC fighter trying to escape his dark past and his penchant for violence, in this adrenaline-fueled actioner. Dalton is barely scraping by on the reputation that still precedes him when he...
  • El yoga y los sueños

    El mundo de  los sueños suele presentar muchas interrogantes, y al mismo tiempo diversas interpretaciones, según el yoga nuestro ser está dividido en diferentes cuerpos, y ello explica en gran medida un significado más profundo de las experiencias oníricas individuales. El Maestro yoghi Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh en su discurso...
  • Missouri’s ‘Taylor Swift Act’ targets AI image threats

    Missouri lawmakers are concerned with protecting people from the potential risks of the increasing accessibility of AI-generated images and videos. The Innovation and Technology Committee is planning to vote on the Taylor Swift Act, a bill aiming to make it illegal to publish or threaten to publish AI-generated sexually explicit...
  • California farmers could save a lot of water — but their profits would suffer

    Rachel Becker CalMatters California farmers could save massive amounts of water if they planted less thirsty — but also less lucrative — crops instead of almonds, alfalfa and other water-guzzling crops, according to new research by scientists who used remote sensing and artificial intelligence. Such a seismic shift in...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: Trump 2.0 vs. Climate

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk For years former President Trump has repeatedly made false claims that climate change is a hoax. His efforts to negate progressive climate change policies were evident in his first term, when he pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, rolled back...
  • How climate change threatens Latinos’ health and heritage

    As climate change makes extreme weather events more common globally, Latinos often face the most significant effects to their health, safety, food security and livelihoods. A new report from the Hispanic Access Foundation details the effects and how climate change erodes cultural legacy when neighborhoods undergo gentrification, displacing traditional communities. Vanessa...
  • CA foster care advocates ask lawmakers to fund in-person response teams

    Advocates for foster families are pressing lawmakers to save the Family Urgent Response System from the budget ax. California faces a $37.9 billion deficit and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s initial proposal zeros out the program’s $30 million budget. Susanna Kniffen, senior director of child welfare policy for the nonprofit Children Now, said the program provides a...
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