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Lauren Hepler and Robert Lewis CalMatters A California Senate committee just gutted one of the state’s most substantial DUI reform bills in years, despite widespread support from other lawmakers and families of drunk driving victims. The bill would have required in-car breathalyzers for anyone convicted of a DUI, bringing California in line...
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Aaron Mendelson The Trace Turner’s Outdoorsman on Mohawk Street in Bakersfield, California, sits on a busy intersection across from an oil drilling site. Over the past three years, this sporting goods store sold more than 16,000 firearms — and also appeared hundreds of times during criminal investigations as the...
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Phoebe S. Moore, Megan Kelly & Yael Dvir The Conversation It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, “I’m so stressed out, I can’t sleep.” A reply...
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Tik Root Grist Hace unos años, el científico ambientalista Elliot Campbell se dedicó a preguntar a la gente por qué se cambiarían, o no, a un vehículo eléctrico. Un número sorprendente de personas le hizo una pregunta a su vez: “Dado que fabricar un vehículo eléctrico genera emisiones, ¿no...
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Tik Root Grist A few years ago, environmental scientist Elliot Campbell went around asking people why they would, or would not, switch to an electric vehicle. A surprising number of them asked him a question in return: Because building an EV generates emissions, isn’t it better for the planet...
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Tfrontado CalMatters La tienda Turner’s Outdoorsman, ubicada en la calle Mohawk de Bakersfield, California, se encuentra en una concurrida intersección frente a una excavación de petróleo. En los últimos tres años, esta tienda de artículos deportivos vendió más de 16,000 armas de fuego y, además, apareció cientos de veces...
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El próximo martes 3 de noviembre, millones de estadounidenses acudirán a las urnas para elegir miembros del Congreso, gobernadores, legisladores estatales y numerosos funcionarios locales. Pero votar no debería ser únicamente escoger un nombre o reconocer un partido o dejarse llevar por el anuncio político más convincente. Una elección...
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On Tuesday, November 3, millions of Americans will go to the polls to elect members of Congress, governors, state legislators, and numerous local officials. But voting shouldn’t just be about choosing a name, recognizing a party, or being swayed by the most convincing political ad. A responsible choice requires...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Xavier Becerra says California needs to build more housing by reducing permitting times and making affordable housing funding easier to access, but he doesn’t want to say how many new homes he would deliver as governor. To address inequality, he’s considering whether the public should own...