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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services FREMONT, California — Shortly before midnight Feb. 11, the Fremont City Council passed an ordinance which criminalizes homelessness as a misdemeanor offense with penalties of up to 6 months in jail and fines of $1000. The new ordinance is one of the harshest such...
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La reciente decisión de la administración Trump sobre el Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS) para los venezolanos en Estados Unidos ha generado una ola de incertidumbre y preocupación entre la comunidad inmigrante. “Después de revisar las condiciones del país y consultar con las agencias gubernamentales correspondientes de EE. UU.,...
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Delilah Brumer & Mercy Sosa CalMatters As President Donald Trump begins his second term with a declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and a steadfast pledge of mass deportations, California’s colleges and universities have been holding workshops and partnering with legal service nonprofits to help undocumented students on...
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Delilah Brumer & Mercy Sosa CalMatters Mientras el presidente Donald Trump inicia su segundo mandato con una declaración de emergencia nacional en la frontera sur y una firme promesa de deportaciones masivas, los colegios y universidades de California han estado realizando talleres y asociándose con organizaciones sin fines de...
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La Autoridad de Vivienda de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles (HACLA) Los Ángeles – La Sra. Lourdes Castro Ramírez, líder de soluciones de vivienda y personas sin hogar reconocida a nivel nacional, ha sido nombrada nueva presidenta y directora ejecutiva de la Autoridad de Vivienda de la Ciudad de...
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The recent decision of the Trump administration on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the United States has generated a wave of uncertainty and concern among the immigrant community. “After reviewing the conditions of the country and consulting with the corresponding US government agencies, Secretary of Homeland Security...
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Malena Carollo CalMatters Entender la sopa de letras de los cargos que figuran en una factura eléctrica mensual es un desafío de por sí. Pero hay un costo sorprendente incluido en las facturas de los clientes que no tienen su propia partida. Una parte de cada pago va directamente...
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Malena Carollo CalMatters Making sense of the alphabet soup of charges on a monthly power bill is challenge enough. But there’s a surprising cost baked into customers’ bills that doesn’t have its own line item. A portion of each payment goes directly in the pockets of shareholders. Called a...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters As swaths of Southern California burn, the state’s Republican members of Congress find themselves facing a dilemma. Blaming the fires on California’s liberal policies, President Donald Trump and GOP congressional leaders have proposed attaching assorted conditions to federal disaster aid— a move that, if taken seriously,...