• Making the rainbow connection at Los Angeles’ LGBT Center

    When Lisa Chilton, 65, leaves her studio apartment, she often encounters several young people hanging out near the entrance of the five-story senior housing complex she has called home since 2021. Because Chilton knows most of her young acquaintances’ faces but not all of their names, she’s nicknamed them....
  • Why California community colleges are reluctant to spend more than $500 million in state money

    Adam Echelman CalMatters More than a year after California community colleges received $650 million in state COVID-19 relief money, schools have spent less than 20% of it. Colleges say they desperately need the money, but that they are reluctant to spend it because of ongoing uncertainty surrounding the state’s...
  • Higher education spared huge cuts in Gov. Newsom’s budget proposal

    Education advocates in California say they’re breathing a sigh of relief after higher ed was spared big cuts in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new budget proposal. The governor’s office projected a $38 billion budget deficit, which it said will be resolved through a mix of reserve funds and budget trimming. “Gov....
  • Making math matter to America’s high school students

    Of all the classes taught in school, many students say math is the hardest and their least favorite subject, but many jobs require math and experts are evaluating recent survey results to determine what could help change the paradigm. Elisha Arillaga Smith, math education and research fellow at Just...
  • Take Control of Your Blood Pressure

    Family Features What you eat and drink, as well as your activity level and habits, affect your heart and brain health and are essential for managing blood pressure, cholesterol and more. High blood pressure (readings consistently higher than 130/80 mm Hg) is a leading cause and controllable risk factor...
  • Frontera: La muerte innecesaria de una madre y sus dos hijos 

    Uno sólo puede imaginar la desesperación de esa madre que se lanzó, con sus dos niños, a las aguas heladas del Río Grande para cruzar a los Estados Unidos. Los tres eran mexicanos y salían de su país, seguramente, en busca de su sueño americano. En su lugar, los tres encontraron...
  • Weathering a Nationwide Tripledemic

    Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services A surging “tripledemic” of COVID-19, flu and RSV threatens to overburden an already burdened U.S. healthcare system. At a Friday, January 5 briefing co-hosted by Ethnic Media Services and Blue Shield of California Foundation, medical experts discussed tripledemic predictions; the newest JN.1 strain of...
  • The Bogus Legal Theory Behind House Speaker Johnson’s Election Denialism

    Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services In an interview with Face the Nation this past weekend, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson repeated the false claim that the 2020 election was unconstitutional. Johnson’s statement, part of an ongoing campaign of election denialism by Republican lawmakers to cast doubt on the legitimacy...
  • Tech scene grows in states like Utah, but not without challenges

    A new report showed the share of tech jobs in what are known as “superstar” cities such as the Bay Area, Boston, Los Angeles and New York has dipped in recent years, while it has been growing in other cities including Salt Lake City. According to a recent study from the University of...
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