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Arturo Hilario El Observador Tina Turner is a name that evokes greatness. It’s a name that is celebrated in the world of music, as one of the world’s bestselling artists ever with hits like “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, “The Best”, and “Proud Mary”. Her voice and...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters When a woman refused to testify against a man accused of assaulting her, a Los Angeles County judge used the accusations she made the night of the incident that were recorded on a police officer’s body camera. Last week, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the judge...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services The California Department of Aging Aug. 22 announced the launch of its first-ever statewide assessment for Californians aged 55 and older to share their voices, called the Community Assessment Survey for Older Adults (CASOA). The 20-question survey — which takes about 15 minutes to...
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Consumer groups are fighting a proposal in Congress which would fast-track installation of 5G high-speed wireless internet equipment by limiting local government input on permitting. House Resolution 3557 would require local governments to process many permit applications within 60 to 150 days depending on the size of the project. If...
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Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk If you are among the 92 percent of Americans who use email as a means of communication, you are a recipient of unsolicited batch emails called “spam.” Every day, upwards of 14.5 billion spam emails are sent globally. They may seem harmless on...
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Durante esta semana iniciamos un periodo de tensión, siete planetas estarán retrógrados. El efecto de estos aspectos planetarios, se hará sentir lo que resta del mes de agosto y durante todo el mes de septiembre. El pasado mes de julio, Venus entró en retrogradación, y desde esas fechas hemos...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters El nuevo restaurante más popular de California podría ser su escuela primaria local. Gracias a un aumento de casi $15 mil millones en fondos estatales y federales, los distritos escolares están abandonando los viejos recursos (pizza congelada y nuggets de pollo) en favor de ensaladas orgánicas,...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador The cool chill in the air, the trees lining the festival as a border between one of the most popular cities in the world and the 250k people that become part of the community of Outside Lands every summer. For its fifteenth-year anniversary, the festival...