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A California group formed after the firestorm that leveled the town of Paradise is stepping up to help Maui recover from its own disaster last month. Leaders from the Medspire nonprofit mobile clinic in Paradise donated money and expertise to medical staff on Maui. Elisabeth Gundersen, Medspire co-founder, said...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters El descanso en fin de semana. La jornada laboral de ocho horas. La licencia familiar remunerada. Esos frutos de las victorias laborales son parte de la vida cotidiana en California. Ahora, este verano con bastante movimiento laboral en el estado, puede haber ayudado a inspirar otra...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services El proyecto de ley 435 del Senado de California — que propone recopilar datos desglosados sobre las subpoblaciones latinas y las comunidades indígenas — se dirige al escritorio del gobernador Gavin Newsom para su firma. El proyecto de ley — patrocinado por la senadora...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services California Senate Bill 435 — which proposes to collect disaggregated data on Latino sub-populations as well as Indigenous communities — is headed to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for signing. The bill — sponsored by Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat — was presented to Newsom...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Una semana después de que las negociaciones para rescatar el tambaleante mercado de seguros de vivienda de California se estancaran en la Legislatura , el principal regulador de seguros del estado presentó su propio plan de rescate que efectivamente equivale a un intercambio para las principales aseguradoras del...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters A week after negotiations to rescue California’s floundering home insurance market stalled out in the Legislature, the state’s top insurance regulator put out his own rescue plan that effectively amounts to a trade for the state’s major insurers. Under proposed regulations Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced this...
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Los grupos progresistas se están pronunciando en contra de la idea de una convención constitucional. Advierten de que podría utilizarse para imponer políticas conservadoras en ámbitos como los derechos civiles, las armas, el derecho al voto y el aborto. Grupos de derecha como la Federalist Society afirman que quieren exigir un...
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Progressive groups are speaking out against the idea of a constitutional convention, warning it could be used to impose conservative policies on things such as civil rights, guns, voting rights and abortion. Right-wing groups such as the Federalist Society have said they want to require a balanced budget and limit the...