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Environmental groups are protesting the Trump administration’s new proposal, released Tuesday August 18, to repeal the “Roadless Rule” and open up 44 million acres of national forests to new roads, commercial logging and mining. Forests are known to provide important wildlife habitat and play a role in filtering and storing...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador Another August, another sonic journey within the beauty of Golden Gate Park for thousands of attendees as they listen to their favorite artists, discover new ones, and delight in the fog and mist of a San Francisco Summer weekend. Outside Lands Music Festival took place...
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Autistic students are attending college in far greater numbers than previously believed, according to researchers at Michigan State University. Earlier estimates placed the population of autistic college students as low as 60,000 nationwide. The figures were based on old and limited data, including a sample formed more than 25...
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Parece un déjà vu lo que está sucediendo últimamente, hace pocas semanas ocurrieron los terribles terremotos de Venezuela. Ahora vemos con asombro el gran terremoto de Colombia, el cual no causó tantos fallecidos como lo ocurrido en La Guaira, no obstante; ha dejado una destrucción mucho mayor. Son cientos...
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LOS ANGELES – Daily life for Isela García has alternated between worry, stress and anxiety ever since she first learned that temporary legal protections for Salvadorans living in the US would end September 9. “What I worry about most is losing my status from one day to the next...
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There’s nothing better this time of year: good food, friends and family hanging out together and enjoying the outdoors for a fun, relaxing time in the yard. To ensure that you have a great cookout every time, here are some backyard barbecue essentials. Keep it simple Even if you’re...
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Phoebe Huss CalMatters A California public university cut ties with a federal program that paid for campus police to aid Border Patrol, within weeks of CalMatters revealing the decade-long partnership. Operation Stonegarden, a grant managed by the Department of Homeland Security, allocates an average of $11 million each year...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters When Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital closed in 2007, neighboring Los Angeles hospitals struggled to keep up with the influx of new patients. They reported emergency department wait times longer than 11 hours, more trauma cases and more uninsured patients. The people who felt the strain weren’t...
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A nonprofit fighting for better access to healthcare is speaking out about affordability issues in long-term care funding. In-home care costs more than $60,000 a year, assisted living is about $54,000 and a private room in a nursing home is around $108,000, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners....
Environmental groups are protesting the Trump administration’s new proposal, released Tuesday August 18, to repeal the “Roadless Rule” and open up 44 million acres of national forests to new roads, commercial logging and mining. Forests are known to provide important wildlife habitat and play a role in filtering and storing...
Arturo Hilario El Observador Another August, another sonic journey within the beauty of Golden Gate Park for thousands of attendees as they listen to their favorite artists, discover new ones, and delight in the fog and mist of a San Francisco Summer weekend. Outside Lands Music Festival took place...
Autistic students are attending college in far greater numbers than previously believed, according to researchers at Michigan State University. Earlier estimates placed the population of autistic college students as low as 60,000 nationwide. The figures were based on old and limited data, including a sample formed more than 25...
Parece un déjà vu lo que está sucediendo últimamente, hace pocas semanas ocurrieron los terribles terremotos de Venezuela. Ahora vemos con asombro el gran terremoto de Colombia, el cual no causó tantos fallecidos como lo ocurrido en La Guaira, no obstante; ha dejado una destrucción mucho mayor. Son cientos...
LOS ANGELES – Daily life for Isela García has alternated between worry, stress and anxiety ever since she first learned that temporary legal protections for Salvadorans living in the US would end September 9. “What I worry about most is losing my status from one day to the next...
There’s nothing better this time of year: good food, friends and family hanging out together and enjoying the outdoors for a fun, relaxing time in the yard. To ensure that you have a great cookout every time, here are some backyard barbecue essentials. Keep it simple Even if you’re...
Phoebe Huss CalMatters A California public university cut ties with a federal program that paid for campus police to aid Border Patrol, within weeks of CalMatters revealing the decade-long partnership. Operation Stonegarden, a grant managed by the Department of Homeland Security, allocates an average of $11 million each year...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters When Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital closed in 2007, neighboring Los Angeles hospitals struggled to keep up with the influx of new patients. They reported emergency department wait times longer than 11 hours, more trauma cases and more uninsured patients. The people who felt the strain weren’t...
A nonprofit fighting for better access to healthcare is speaking out about affordability issues in long-term care funding. In-home care costs more than $60,000 a year, assisted living is about $54,000 and a private room in a nursing home is around $108,000, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners....