• How do you know blood donations are safe?

    BPT Every two seconds, someone in the United States (U.S.) needs blood. A single donation can save lives. However, only 3% of eligible Americans give blood each year. “When you give blood, you’re giving the gift of life,” said Simone Glynn, M.D., chief of the National Heart, Lung, and...
  • 10 Health Resolutions Doctors Encourage You to Make Today

    The New Year represents a fresh start and is the perfect time to invest in your health. However, you may be unsure what resolutions will have the biggest impact. Doctors say that the easy, tangible actions you take are some of the most important. “Many people kick off the...
  • Pandemic catch up: What will it take for left-behind students to learn to read?

    Joe Hong CalMatters Roxanne Grago’s fifth-grade students at Lake Marie Elementary should be able to read a short story, analyze it, and support their analyses with examples from the text. But Grago said that during school closures and other pandemic-era disruptions, students fell behind academically. Today, they struggle to...
  • Border scramble: Why California isn’t financially ready for Title 42 to end

    The Supreme Court’s latest move allows a short-term reprieve to an anticipated increase in asylum seekers trying to cross from Mexico into California and other states, but recent confusion at the border is a preview of what may soon come should a pandemic-era measure known as Title 42 be lifted in...
  • California approves far-reaching strategy for tackling climate change. So what’s next?

    Nadia Lopez CalMatters California’s air board unanimously approved on December 15 a sweeping state plan to battle climate change, creating a new blueprint for the next five years to cut carbon emissions, reduce reliance on fossil fuels and speed up the transition to renewable energy. Called a scoping plan, the 297-page...
  • Otro año decepcionante en migración

    El balance migratorio del año 2022 podría resumirse con la palabra “decepcionante”. Es verdad que la administración del presidente Joe Biden aprobó el estatus de protección temporal para miles de venezolanos y la extensión por 18 meses de los beneficios para los inmigrantes procedentes de El Salvador, Nicaragua, Sudán, Honduras y Nepal....
  • A ‘National Poisoning’ — Synthetic Drugs Flooding the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Synthetic drugs made in Mexico and sold for cheap in the U.S. are killing tens of thousands while fueling a growing humanitarian catastrophe. Many of the victims are young, many are homeless, and many are people of color. That’s according to award-winning reporter Sam Quinones, author of four acclaimed...
  • Dems Urged to ‘Keep It Local’ to Succeed in Rural US

    Democrats have struggled to turn ‘red’ rural areas ‘blue’ across the country for years. But some left-leaning candidates won in 2022, raising the question of how they succeeded where many others have failed. In Havre, Paul Tuss flipped a Montana legislative House seat in an area where President Joe...
  • Predicciones 2023

    Nos preparamos a recibir el año 2023, un año que viene cargado de muchas sorpresas, muchas de ellas no tan agradables. El factor económico será quizá el tema principal no sólo en Estados Unidos sino en todo el mundo. La inflación seguirá su paso avasallante, parece que nadie podrá...
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