• 3 Reasons Your Child’s Annual Back-to-School Physical Is The Perfect Time To Talk About Mental Health

    When it comes to your child’s overall health, well-child visits are the perfect time to ensure your child’s holistic development is progressing as it should. With back-to-school season ready to begin, now is the perfect time to discuss your child’s physical and mental health with their pediatrician or your...
  • Drones, tacos, and billboards: How California community colleges are trying to get students back to school

    Adam Echelman CalMatters San Diego is known for many things: surfing at La Jolla, the giant pandas at the zoo, and great Mexican food, to name a few. Now, there’s a new item on your must-see list. On billboards, buses, and through social media posts starting this week, the...
  • Un tributo a Norma Orcí

    Norma Orcí dejó de estar entre nosotros, pero al mismo tiempo sigue tan presente como nunca porque logró, en sus propias palabras, su misión en la vida: “capturar nuestro corazón”. Cofundadora junto con su esposo Héctor de la agencia publicitaria Orcí, una empresa familiar 100% de propiedad de minorías étnicas o...
  • Unions Flex Muscle Not Seen in Decades

    Peter White Ethnic Media Services In the hottest labor summer in 40 years, unions are demanding better contracts for working people who can’t live on their paychecks. And solidarity across all sectors is making a difference. This is the view shared by veteran union organizers, labor economists, and striking...
  • Report: Majority of Young People Want Stricter Gun Laws

    Some 74% of young people in the U.S. believe gun violence is a problem, and almost 60% want to see stricter gun laws, according to a new report from American University, the Everytown for Gun Safety and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Researchers polled a nationally representative sample of more than...
  • Mensajes de los Planetas

    Aries Marte tu planeta, traerá consigo durante este mes una recompensa, puede tratarse de una muy buena noticia, o quizá llegue a tus manos una cantidad de dinero inesperada. Ten paciencia y no te dejes llevar por tus emociones, hay planetas retrógrados, ten cuidado. Sé amable y actúa con...
  • EARTHTALK Q&A: The Bison Are Back

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Just 150 years ago, 30 million American bison inhabited the Great Plains. However, the species almost went extinct after white frontiersmen moved westward in the 1800s, bringing cattle that spread diseases to bison and altering terrain to build towns, farms and pastures. In...
  • Goodwill, Google Collaborate for Job Training

    It is probably safe to say that when most people think of Goodwill, they think of the more than 3,300 donation centers and thrift stores spread across the U.S. and Canada. But, the nonprofit is so much more. In fact, Goodwill may be the best-kept workforce development secret in America,...
  • Don’t call it ‘toilet to tap’ — California plans to turn sewage into drinking water

    Rachel Becker CalMatters Californians could drink highly purified sewage water that is piped directly into drinking water supplies for the first time under proposed rules unveiled by state water officials. The drought-prone state has turned to recycled water for more than 60 years to bolster its scarce supplies, but the current...
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