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Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was late Friday morning when muddy, brown water started rushing onto Michelle Hackett’s Salinas Valley farms. On one side of her family’s Riverview Farms cannabis business, a county-mandated retention pond overflowed. Next door, a farm abandoned by another grower —...
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Julie Cart CalMatters El presupuesto propuesto por el gobernador Gavin Newsom reduciría los fondos para proyectos de recuperación costera casi a la mitad, eliminando más de 500 millones de dólares de fondos estatales este año que ayudarían a proteger la costa contra el aumento del nivel del mar y...
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Julie Cart CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would cut funding for coastal resilience projects almost in half, eliminating more than half a billion dollars of state funds this year that would help protect the coast against rising seas and climate change. The cuts are part of Newsom’s proposed...
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For good and not so good reasons, undocumented immigrants find themselves in the middle of the political battle between Republicans and Democrats in the final stretch toward the 2024 presidential election. Among the good reasons is the fact that a bill to reform the 1929 Immigration Registry has been...
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Por buenas razones y por otras no tanto, los inmigrantes indocumentados se encuentran en medio de la batalla política entre republicanos y demócratas en la recta final hacia las elecciones presidenciales del 2024. Entre las buenas razones figura el hecho de qué ha sido resucitada una iniciativa de ley...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Todo comenzó con un lugar de estacionamiento. En una tarde de septiembre de 2017, Chris Langer no pudo encontrar uno que acomodara su camioneta y la rampa que usa para su silla de ruedas detrás de una tienda de langostas de San Diego. Lo que sucedió...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters It all started with a parking spot. On a breezy afternoon in September 2017, Chris Langer couldn’t find one that would accommodate his van and the ramp he uses for his wheelchair behind a San Diego lobster shop. What transpired next has been the subject of...
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The Teatro Visión familia is saddened to learn of the passing of our former Executive Director, Board President, and fervent champion, Raul Lozano. Raul was a pillar of our artistic and cultural community. For a decade from 1998-2009, he worked alongside Founding Artistic Director Elisa Marina Alvarado to elevate...
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Courtesy of The New York Times, we learned that President Joe Biden’s administration is considering reviving one of the most controversial practices of the Trump era: the detention of migrant families at the border. Although no final action has been taken, the leak to one of the most influential...