• California extends outdoor dining, to-go drinks through Dec. 31

    When Los Angeles shut down indoor dining, DK Marikan did everything in his power to reinvent his 28-year-old Mediterranean restaurant and deli to keep it afloat. “At some point we only did to go, and that was nothing. Nobody wanted to come,” he said of Garo’s, a staple with...
  • YOUR VOTE COUNTS

    President Joe Biden’s first budget request for immigration and border issues is a stark reminder that your vote counts. For many people in our community, participation in civic life is still seen as a distant issue from our daily lives, an activity exclusive to politicians in Washington. But Biden’s...
  • TU VOTO CUENTA

    La primera solicitud presupuestal del presidente Joe Biden para temas migratorios y fronterizos es un claro recordatorio de que tu voto cuenta.  Para muchas personas en nuestra comunidad, la participación en la vida cívica es vista todavía como un asunto distante de nuestra vida diaria, una actividad exclusiva de...
  • Opinión: Debemos poner fin a las leyes que sancionan la culpa por asociación

    Si le dijeran que existe una ley en los libros que permite a la policía apuntar a personas para enjuiciamientos especiales por motivos de raza, ¿lo creería? ¿Creería usted que esta ley permite a la policía designar a niños negros y morenos para vigilancia y acoso, y permite a...
  • End laws that sanction guilt by association

    If you were told that there’s a law on the books that lets police target people for special prosecutions on the basis of race, would you believe it? Would you believe that this law lets police designate Black and Brown kids for surveillance and harassment, and allows prosecutors to...
  • Vacunas por dinero en efectivo: Newsom ofrece mucho dinero a los californianos que reciben sus vacunas

    Para los californianos que no están lo suficientemente obligados por el deber cívico y la autoconservación a vacunarse, el gobernador Gavin Newsom ofrece otra razón para recibir la vacuna: dinero en efectivo. El jueves, 27 de mayo el gobernador anunció un programa de $116,5 millones “Vax for the Win”,...
  • Vax for cash: Newsom offers big bucks for Californians who get their shots

    For Californians who are insufficiently compelled by civic duty and self-preservation to get vaccinated, Gov. Gavin Newsom is offering another reason to get the jab: cold, hard cash. On Thursday May 27, Newsom announced a $116.5 million “Vax for the Win” program, the largest inoculation lottery program in the country....
  • Divisive Oakland freeway may be demolished

    Jerry Brown, who had served two terms as governor of California and had run unsuccessfully for president three times and the U.S. Senate once, re-entered politics in 1997 by declaring his candidacy for mayor of Oakland. Brown delivered the last segment of the radio talk show that had occupied...
  • La autopista divisoria de Oakland podría ser demolida

    Jerry Brown, quien había servido dos mandatos como gobernador de California y se había postulado sin éxito a la presidencia en tres ocasiones y al Senado de los Estados Unidos una vez, volvió a entrar en la política en 1997 al declarar su candidatura a la alcaldía de Oakland....
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