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Small business groups are celebrating the new budget deal reached between California state legislators. Next up comes final negotiations with Gov. Gavin Newsom. The deal includes more than $1 billion to offset the cost of paid sick leave and help cover taxes on unemployment insurance. Carolina Martinez is CEO of CAMEO,...
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A coalition of domestic violence (DV) organizations in California are advocating to continue $15 million for domestic violence prevention, a grant that was left out of the proposed budget introduced by Governor Gavin Newsom May 13. The state Legislature, which is expected to announce its final budget on June...
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En California, las demandas están aumentando: hombres de mediana edad que dicen que fueron agredidos sexualmente cuando eran niños por un líder de Boy Scout o un sacerdote. Una mujer, que ahora ronda los 30, detalla cómo supuestamente fue agredida en un centro para niños en cuidado temporal. Un...
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Have you received a call from a number you think you should know or recognize? Phone scams are only successful if a potential target answers the call so the scammer can initiate a conversation. Using advanced technology, scammers modify how phone numbers appear on your caller ID to trick...
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A new survey of 28,000 high school seniors found more than one in four changed their life plans during the pandemic. In 2019, 25% of students planned to attend a two-year college; now down to 19%. Jennifer Wilka, executive director of YouthTruth, a nonprofit based in San Francisco specializing in surveying...
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Two decades ago, California legislators added a new weapon to the state’s growing arsenal of gun-control measures, already among the toughest in the nation. Their motivation came from 2,000 miles away in a shaken Chicago suburb. It was there that a gunman opened fire in an engine factory where he’d worked...
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El grito salió desde el corazón de uno de los residentes de Uvalde, Texas, cuando el presidente Biden y su esposa Jill depositaban una ofrenda floral en el improvisado monumento en memoria de las pequeñas víctimas de la Escuela Primaria Robb, en la más reciente masacre escolar que conmueve...
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Forty years ago, on the eve of his wedding, a young Chinese American named Vincent Chin was fatally beaten with a baseball bat on the streets of Detroit by two white men shouting anti-Asian slurs. The miscarriage of justice that followed – neither assailant served a day in jail...
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This week, in honor of World Otter Day, conservation groups are looking to raise awareness about efforts to restore sea otters along more areas of the California coast. Right now, sea otter populations are mostly concentrated on the Central Coast, between Santa Barbara and an area just south of San...