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Adam Echelman CalMatters Calbright College seemed doomed from the start. Just months after enrolling its first students in 2019, the online community college was under fire from faculty groups, and the state Assembly had agreed to shut it down. It had “poor management,” “ineffective and inappropriate hiring,” and “inadequate”...
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“¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!” Meaning “hurry up, let’s go,” the trademark slogan of Speedy Gonzales was, for generations of children, the first Spanish words they learned. But by the 1980s, ABC had pulled his cartoons due to concerns that his dress, accent and characters like his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, were insensitive toward Mexicans...
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Billions of people regularly eat insects. In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, chapulines – toasted grasshoppers – stand out as a beloved seasonal treat that follows the start of the rainy season, a period that runs from late May through September. My new book, “Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women who...
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At this point in NASA’s human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material – documents, artifacts and images – with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon now in the books, we’re getting a refreshed look at space....
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En este año 2026 han ocurrido y ocurrirán movimientos planetarios muy significativos. Uno de ellos es la entrada del planeta Urano en el signo de Géminis, el día 25 de abril. Esta posición planetaria se extenderá hasta el día 5 de agosto del año 2032. Este movimiento astral, predice...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters El representante Eric Swalwell suspendió su campaña para gobernador de California el domingo por la noche, días después de que dos medios de comunicación publicaran graves acusaciones de agresión y conducta sexual inapropiada por parte de cuatro mujeres, incluida una exempleada. En un comunicado en redes...
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Dirigirnos hacia el modelo de ciudad que nunca duerme tiene un precio: los ciudadanos dormiremos cada vez menos y peor. Y no debemos olvidar que el sueño, a menudo infravalorado, es un proceso fisiológico fundamental para mantener un buen estado de salud. Sabemos que si no dormimos lo suficiente, terminamos...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters En un esfuerzo por paliar la escasez de viviendas en el estado, California está considerando algo sin precedentes: entrar en el negocio de los seguros para la construcción. El mes pasado, la asambleísta Buffy Wicks, demócrata de Oakland, y una coalición bipartidista de legisladores presentaron un esperado...
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Experts in health-care policy are speaking out against further Medicaid cuts once Congress returns from its spring recess to work on a second budget reconciliation package. The legislation will fund the Iran war and the Department of Homeland Security. Last summer, Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid in their...
Adam Echelman CalMatters Calbright College seemed doomed from the start. Just months after enrolling its first students in 2019, the online community college was under fire from faculty groups, and the state Assembly had agreed to shut it down. It had “poor management,” “ineffective and inappropriate hiring,” and “inadequate”...
“¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!” Meaning “hurry up, let’s go,” the trademark slogan of Speedy Gonzales was, for generations of children, the first Spanish words they learned. But by the 1980s, ABC had pulled his cartoons due to concerns that his dress, accent and characters like his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, were insensitive toward Mexicans...
Billions of people regularly eat insects. In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, chapulines – toasted grasshoppers – stand out as a beloved seasonal treat that follows the start of the rainy season, a period that runs from late May through September. My new book, “Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women who...
At this point in NASA’s human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material – documents, artifacts and images – with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon now in the books, we’re getting a refreshed look at space....
En este año 2026 han ocurrido y ocurrirán movimientos planetarios muy significativos. Uno de ellos es la entrada del planeta Urano en el signo de Géminis, el día 25 de abril. Esta posición planetaria se extenderá hasta el día 5 de agosto del año 2032. Este movimiento astral, predice...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters El representante Eric Swalwell suspendió su campaña para gobernador de California el domingo por la noche, días después de que dos medios de comunicación publicaran graves acusaciones de agresión y conducta sexual inapropiada por parte de cuatro mujeres, incluida una exempleada. En un comunicado en redes...
Dirigirnos hacia el modelo de ciudad que nunca duerme tiene un precio: los ciudadanos dormiremos cada vez menos y peor. Y no debemos olvidar que el sueño, a menudo infravalorado, es un proceso fisiológico fundamental para mantener un buen estado de salud. Sabemos que si no dormimos lo suficiente, terminamos...
Ben Christopher CalMatters En un esfuerzo por paliar la escasez de viviendas en el estado, California está considerando algo sin precedentes: entrar en el negocio de los seguros para la construcción. El mes pasado, la asambleísta Buffy Wicks, demócrata de Oakland, y una coalición bipartidista de legisladores presentaron un esperado...
Experts in health-care policy are speaking out against further Medicaid cuts once Congress returns from its spring recess to work on a second budget reconciliation package. The legislation will fund the Iran war and the Department of Homeland Security. Last summer, Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid in their...