• Here’s what California could do to help fix the supply chain

    If you’ve never really thought about California’s ports or the global supply chain before the past month, that’s normal. But they’re having problems now, driven by the pandemic, and it’s causing a shortage of everything from computer chips to kitchen supplies. California’s problem is a national one, too: The...
  • Consejos de expertos para controlar el asma y las alergias en temporada festiva

    ¿Qué ingrediente de esas deliciosas galletas navideñas le pudo afectar? ¿Por qué le cuesta trabajo respirar mientras decora los pasillos? ¿Será ese adorable cachorro del gran lazo rojo la causa del enrojecimiento de su nariz? “La temporada de fin de año está llena de festividades divertidas y tradiciones queridas,...
  • COVID misinformation plagues California’s Indigenous speakers

    Ismael Patia and his family arrived at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in downtown Fresno on a recent Saturday afternoon. His decision to get vaccinated had been a difficult one. But he finally was persuaded by an interpreter who talked to him in his native language, Mixteco, and eased his fears....
  • COVID and the flu: Is a ‘twindemic’ threat lurking again?

    First, the good news: The flu was practically nonexistent last year. The bad news: Little flu last season means increased risk this fall and winter. The so-called “twindemic” that public health officials in California and elsewhere warned about last year — the combined threat of influenza and COVID-19 — was largely...
  • As Pandemic Lingers, Tips for Safe Holiday Travel

    SEATTLE — As vaccination rates go up, people are more likely to be traveling this holiday season than they did last year, and a physician in Seattle has some tips for how families can travel safely. Dr. Avantika Waring of Kaiser Permanente, said the Centers for Disease Control and...
  • LA HERENCIA PERVERSA DE TRUMP

    Donald Trump no sólo le dejó a Joe Biden las secuelas de su estrategia política racista y xenofóbica que se traducido en un incremento de los grupos supremacistas y en los crímenes de odio contra las minorías más vulnerables. También le heredó los Protocolos de Protección del Migrante, mejor...
  • El Culto y Amor al Agua

    Durante los últimos años se viene haciendo un llamado, para que logremos conservar el agua. No solamente en California sino en diferentes partes del mundo, se han producido sequías, muchas de éstas debido a la deforestación indiscriminada que ocurre todos los días. Incendios forestales en Australia y en la...
  • El cuidado infantil en California no se ha recuperado: ¿por qué muchos trabajadores no regresan?

    Para Tonya Muhammad, que dirige la guardería familiar Lil Critters en Hawthorne, la primavera de 2020 la puede describir en una palabra: “horrible”. La prisa temprana por encontrar los suministros de limpieza significó que ella y su esposo tuvieron que atravesar Los Ángeles para encontrar desinfectante, obteniendo botellas de...
  • OUTSIDE LANDS 2021: Music, Food, Drinks & Costumes Prove to be A Spooky Good Time

    Arturo Hilario El Observador For the first time since August 2019, or around 26 months ago, Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields and adjacent areas were transformed into the annual Outside Lands Music Festival, a few months removed from its usual Summer timeslot. This time around the festival went for...
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