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Por cortesía del diario The New York Times nos enteramos que la administración del presidente Joe Biden está analizando revivir una de las prácticas más polémicas de la era Trump: la detención de familias migrantes en la frontera. Aunque no se ha tomado una medida final, la filtración a uno de...
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La Astrología es una ciencia verídica, y gracias a los avances mismos de la ciencia, ésta se encuentra tomando un auge mayor en las últimas décadas. Todos los movimientos astrales en el universo y principalmente en nuestro sistema solar, afectan de manera directa la vida en nuestro planeta. El...
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Outside Lands The Bay Area’s crown jewel, Outside Lands, returns to celebrate 15 years of world-class music, food, wine, beer, art and cannabis in Golden Gate Park on August 11 – 13. Over the last decade and a half, the festival has become a vital part of the Bay Area’s...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Smartphones have certainly become ubiquitous, with some 85 percent of Americans and 67 percent of adults worldwide possessing one. Manufacturers sell almost 1.5 billion of them per year. And every year these manufacturers come out with upgraded models to lure customers into trading...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters California used to need lots and lots of prisons. Big prisons, little prisons, prisons with special cells for gang leaders and prisons for those convicted of nonviolent financial chicanery. There were so many prisoners packed into so many prisons that federal courts intervened, mandating that the...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Martha Herrera worked for four years as a nanny in San Francisco, helping to care for a little girl who has physical and developmental disabilities. The job included helping the girl get home from school, and carrying her and bathing her. One day while carrying the...
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Kristen Hwang & Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom’s surprise announcement via Twitter this week that California would not do business with pharmacy giant Walgreens caused widespread confusion in a state where more than one-third of the population pays for prescriptions with government-funded health insurance. Walgreens confirmed last week it would...
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Surveys show that 3 in 4 Americans older than 50 want to age in place, but climate change can make that difficult – and expensive. Next Tuesday, AARP is holding an online community conversation about adapting to climate change. David Azevedo, associate director with AARP California, said making homes more climate...
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Just 14% of California’s 94,000 undocumented college students receive some form of state financial aid, according to a new report. Researchers from the California Student Aid Commission found that only half of the people who are eligible for state aid for higher education even apply. Marlene Garcia, the commission’s executive...