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Ben Christopher CalMatters El año pasado, los legisladores estatales rompieron con la tradición al no incluir una excepción para la costa de California en una importante ley de vivienda. Esa omisión deliberada se produjo a pesar de la oposición de la Comisión Costera de California, la agencia estatal creada...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Last year, state lawmakers broke from tradition by not including an exception for the California coast in a major housing law. That deliberate omission came despite opposition from the California Coastal Commission — the voter-created state agency tasked since 1976 with scrutinizing anything that gets built, demolished, dug,...
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Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
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Durante 2021, el primer año después de que comenzó la pandemia, California logro mantener asegurado a más del 96 % de los niños, según un nuevo informe de la Universidad de Georgetown. Los autores dan crédito a una ley federal que otorgo dinero extra a los estados para que nadie dejara...
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During 2021, the first year after the pandemic began, California managed to keep more than 96% of children insured, according to a new report from Georgetown University. The authors credit a federal law which gave states extra money so no one would be dropped from Medicaid during COVID. Joan...
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Consumer advocates are out to stop cars with unrepaired recall defects from winding up with new owners. Federal law bans car dealers from selling unrepaired new cars and rental agencies from selling or renting them. Now consumer activists want the feds to forbid car dealers to sell at retail...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Defenders of California’s national monuments are part of a larger group of public lands advocates converging on Washington, D.C. this week to fend off policymakers who would shrink the monuments. In late April, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to...