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Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services California Senate Bill 435 — which proposes to collect disaggregated data on Latino sub-populations as well as Indigenous communities — is headed to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for signing. The bill — sponsored by Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat — was presented to Newsom...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters A week after negotiations to rescue California’s floundering home insurance market stalled out in the Legislature, the state’s top insurance regulator put out his own rescue plan that effectively amounts to a trade for the state’s major insurers. Under proposed regulations Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced this...
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Progressive groups are speaking out against the idea of a constitutional convention, warning it could be used to impose conservative policies on things such as civil rights, guns, voting rights and abortion. Right-wing groups such as the Federalist Society have said they want to require a balanced budget and limit the...
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Para muchas personas, se ha normalizado el espectáculo anual de un posible cierre del gobierno federal ante los crónicos desacuerdos presupuestales en el Congreso. Pero una normalización de la disfuncionalidad política en Washington es inaceptable porque las principales víctimas son los más vulnerables entre nosotros: Si el gobierno federal queda paralizado...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters En su continua batalla para proteger el derecho al aborto, California está demandando a dos importantes grupos antiaborto por afirmaciones sobre la viabilidad de un servicio para la “reversión de la píldora abortiva”, anunció el Fiscal General Rob Bonta. Heartbeat International, un grupo nacional antiaborto, y...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador Through the COVID epidemic, it was evident that among the deadly virus, social unrest and general uncertainty, there was also a huge economic inequality occurring. The wealthy could continue to get wealthier, while those on the sidelines could only look on, losing work, family and...
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La escuela ha vuelto y una forma en que los padres pueden preparar a sus hijos para el éxito es asegurarse de que el tiempo frente a la pantalla no interfiera con el sueño. La Dra. Maida Chen, profesora de pediatría en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad...
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Eric Tegethoff Public News Service School is back and one way parents can set their kids up for success is ensuring screen time is not getting in the way of sleep. Dr. Maida Chen, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said there is a...
Felicia Mello CalMatters The weekend. The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California. Now the state’s hot labor summer may have helped inspire another precedent-setting measure, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill on his desk that would allow...
Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services California Senate Bill 435 — which proposes to collect disaggregated data on Latino sub-populations as well as Indigenous communities — is headed to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for signing. The bill — sponsored by Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat — was presented to Newsom...
Ben Christopher CalMatters A week after negotiations to rescue California’s floundering home insurance market stalled out in the Legislature, the state’s top insurance regulator put out his own rescue plan that effectively amounts to a trade for the state’s major insurers. Under proposed regulations Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced this...
Progressive groups are speaking out against the idea of a constitutional convention, warning it could be used to impose conservative policies on things such as civil rights, guns, voting rights and abortion. Right-wing groups such as the Federalist Society have said they want to require a balanced budget and limit the...
Para muchas personas, se ha normalizado el espectáculo anual de un posible cierre del gobierno federal ante los crónicos desacuerdos presupuestales en el Congreso. Pero una normalización de la disfuncionalidad política en Washington es inaceptable porque las principales víctimas son los más vulnerables entre nosotros: Si el gobierno federal queda paralizado...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters En su continua batalla para proteger el derecho al aborto, California está demandando a dos importantes grupos antiaborto por afirmaciones sobre la viabilidad de un servicio para la “reversión de la píldora abortiva”, anunció el Fiscal General Rob Bonta. Heartbeat International, un grupo nacional antiaborto, y...
Arturo Hilario El Observador Through the COVID epidemic, it was evident that among the deadly virus, social unrest and general uncertainty, there was also a huge economic inequality occurring. The wealthy could continue to get wealthier, while those on the sidelines could only look on, losing work, family and...
La escuela ha vuelto y una forma en que los padres pueden preparar a sus hijos para el éxito es asegurarse de que el tiempo frente a la pantalla no interfiera con el sueño. La Dra. Maida Chen, profesora de pediatría en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad...
Eric Tegethoff Public News Service School is back and one way parents can set their kids up for success is ensuring screen time is not getting in the way of sleep. Dr. Maida Chen, professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said there is a...