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  • Californians: Don’t Wait to Get Free Tax Help

    Logan Pollard California News Service LOS ANGELES – Tax season is well underway; the deadline is April 18. Tax time can mean loads of stress, especially because the U.S. Tax Code has become increasingly complicated. But Nancy McPherson, state director for AARP California, says the AARP Foundation’s Tax-Aide program...
  • U.S. Family Courts Often Award Custody to Alleged Abuser

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Over the past eight years, custodial parents killed 58 American children after a court ignored abuse claims by a protective parent, according to the Center for Judicial Excellence. And a new investigative report, published by 100Reporters.org, says family courts systemically discredit...
  • How Will California Clean its Air?

    Logan Pollard California News Service LOS ANGELES – Southern California has long been plagued with dirty air – so dirty that clean-air advocates claim the entire South Coast basin has never been in full compliance with the federal Clean Air Act. But today, the South Coast Air Quality Management...
  • Court in CA Puts Executive Order in Limbo; LA Takes Pre-emptive Action

    Logan Pollard California News Service SAN FRANCISCO – In a thinly veiled contest over states’ versus federal rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has upped the ante by further debating the contentious travel ban blocking some refugees from entering the U.S. from certain...
  • CA Business Owners’ Reaction to Executive Orders

    Logan Pollard California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the past week, President Trump signed executive orders to build a wall along the Mexican border and to cut off federal funds to “sanctuary cities” – in California and across the country. While Wall Street has been bullish, small business...
  • After a Weekend of Protests – Now What, California?

    Logan Pollard California News Service BERKELEY, Calif. – In California alone, there were nearly 50 “sister marches” in tandem with Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington in the nation’s capital. Rallies included smaller hamlets – like Santa Maria, Santa Paula and Oxnard, up north – as well as marches in...
  • Tobacco Use in CA: Making Strides, but Room to Improve

    Logan Pollard California News Service LOS ANGELES – In California alone, 40,000 people die every year from tobacco-related illnesses, which also cost the state just over $18 billion in healthcare and loss of productivity. Two reports out today explain what states are doing to curb tobacco use. Lindsey Freitas,...
  • First-Ever Call for Diversity in National Parks

    Logan Pollard California News Service OAKLAND, Calif. — Martin Luther King Jr. Day has deep significance for many Americans this year with the fulfillment of what some thought an impossible dream: a black president serving two terms in office. And the Obama administration’s last days have been marked by...
  • More Calif. Acres Granted Protections as National Monuments

    Logan Pollard California News Service SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – President Barack Obama on Thursday January 12th announced the expansion of two national monuments in California – California Coastal National Monument and Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument at the Oregon border. Much more than recognition of the unique history or geography of...
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