• Lawmakers weaken California nursing homes bill — sponsors yank their support

    A group of advocates that has long fought to reform the state’s troubled nursing home licensing system is now attempting to kill legislation it sponsored, calling the amended bill “a step backwards.” “Instead of the major reform that the nursing home licensing system needs, AB 1502 now codifies and endorses the...
  • Legislators, Newsom negotiating behind closed doors over energy deal

    California’s top-ranking legislators, under pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom, are privately negotiating to include a far-reaching energy package in their budget deal that would give the state Energy Commission sole control over siting of clean-energy facilities. The effort aims to streamline approval of solar and wind projects, and deliver...
  • Legisladores y Newsom negocian a puerta cerrada un acuerdo energético

    Los legisladores de mayor rango de California, bajo la presión del gobernador Gavin Newsom, están negociando en privado para incluir un paquete de energía de gran alcance en su acuerdo presupuestario que le daría a la Comisión de Energía del estado el control exclusivo sobre la ubicación de las...
  • Stroke Awareness Foundation Highlights Outreach into non-English Speaking Communities

    Stroke Awareness Foundation Do you know the signs of stroke? The Stroke Awareness Foundation (SAF) wants to make sure you do, no matter what language you speak. That was the message of the SAF press conference last week. Held to welcome its newest board member, former executive director of...
  • Eliminando obstáculos para los compradores de primera vivienda

    Ser propietario de una vivienda ha sido durante mucho tiempo una aspiración para muchos estadounidenses, y una de las formas más efectivas de crear riqueza generacional. Sin embargo, debido a los efectos de la actual pandemia de COVID-19, el aumento de las tasas de interés y las preocupaciones sobre...
  • Knocking down barriers for first-time homebuyers

    Owning a home has long been an aspiration for many people across America, and one of the most effective ways to build generational wealth. Yet, due to the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, rising interest rates, and housing affordability concerns, including the lack of affordable housing supply, homeownership...
  • Q&A: The mysteries of El Refugio

    Arturo Hilario El Observador Science fiction is a booming genre on television, in movies, and on book pages. The otherworldly and the unknown come from places we might be afraid to imagine and enter into our normal lives, uprooting those lives and forcing us to react, whether it’s a...
  • Preguntas y respuestas: Los misterios de El Refugio

    Arturo Hilario El Observador La ciencia ficción es un género en auge en la televisión, en las películas y en las páginas de los libros. Lo de otro mundo y lo desconocido provienen de lugares que podríamos tener miedo de imaginar y entran en nuestras vidas normales, desarraigando esas...
  • Tragedy in San Antonio: 50 immigrants died suffocated and without water

    Without water, without air, but full of hope. This is how entire families of immigrants traveled in pursue to fulfill their American dream of living and working, of having a better future in the United States, when one by one they died suffocated inside a trailer container. Not to...
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