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Deborah Brennan CalMatters As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started new chapters of their lives in social and academic seclusion. Many spent their senior year on Zoom, without homecomings, proms or graduations. They struggled to pass classes and...
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Recientemente, el presidente Donald Trump declaró que su administración está viendo “la posibilidad de hacer algo donde, en el caso de agricultores buenos y responsables, puedan asumir la responsabilidad por las personas que contratan. Porque no podemos dejar que las granjas se vayan a la quiebra”. En otras declaraciones...
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Fighting for a wide range of people with a skill for compromise is how Rep. Melissa Hortman, D-Brooklyn Park, is being remembered for following her assassination Saturday. A civic engagement group said she was a shining example of a woman in politics. Hortman’s murder is seen by political observers...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media LOS ANGELES, California — An estimated 100,000 Angelenos marched the streets surrounding City Hall June 14 to protest President Donald Trump’s policies, especially scaled-up immigration enforcement. The ad-hoc organization No Kings organized more than 2,000 protests across the country on June 14, Trump’s birthday, Flag Day,...
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Hunger among college students in California has jumped dramatically since the pandemic, yet Cal-Fresh — a statewide low-income food assistance program — fails to reach more than 70% of eligible students. So, food pantries at colleges and universities are finding creative ways to meet student needs. In the 2023-24...
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Parece ser que cada día el mundo luce peor, guerra y rumores de guerra; algo que ya fue escrito hace dos mil años en el Apocalipsis de San Juan. Las profecías no son alentadoras, según el libro sagrado, Israel podría ser invadido y destruido. ¿Será todo esto una cuestión...
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California companies making compostable packaging materials said their products could make a huge dent in the problem of plastic pollution but only with changes to state and federal policy. California passed Senate Bill 54 in 2022. It requires single-use packaging and plastic foodware to be either recyclable or compostable...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The term “human footprint” has become ubiquitous in modern environmental discourse, but to understand its impact today, one must understand how exactly this footprint has changed. The human footprint is defined today as the “energy quantities, resources and products consumed by a human...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters California’s schools and colleges receive billions in federal funding each year — money that President Donald Trump is threatening to terminate over the actions of one student. AB Hernandez, a junior from Jurupa Valley High School, is transgender, and on May 31 she won first- and...