• ¿Cuánto costará lograr el sueño americano en 2025?

    La nueva “bella y hermosa” ley de presupuesto, impuestos, seguridad fronteriza destina más de 170,000 millones de dólares en materia de la política de deportaciones, contratación de agentes y unas 700 millas del muro fronterizo. Pero uno de los aspectos que ha pasado desapercibido es que incrementa el precio...
  • Move along: Targeting homeless Californians. They were repeatedly ticketed because of their homelessness. What did it change?

    Marisa Kendall, Aaron Schrank & Lisa Halverstadt CalMatters Deadra Walicki has lived in the same spot for more than a decade: a cracked patch of asphalt in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, squeezed between a boarded-up grocery store and Amtrak tracks so close that passing trains shake the ground beneath her tent. The...
  • Attention, US Citizens: Yes, You Can Now Be Deported

    American Community Media & They See Blue On June 11, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memo that sent ripples through immigrant communities across America. It quietly declared denaturalization — the revocation of U.S. citizenship from naturalized citizens — a “top-five priority.” While the memo frames the policy as...
  • Usos Esotéricos del Péndulo

    El péndulo es un instrumento muy simple, y a la vez muy sensible y poderoso; capaz de leer e interpretar la energía que emana de nuestro subconsciente. Capaz de discernir las respuestas y verdades, que se encuentran en lo más profundo de cada uno de nosotros, a las cuales...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: Tidal Energy

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Tidal energy—generated from the natural rise and fall of ocean tides—is one of the most predictable forms of renewable energy. Unlike wind or solar, which fluctuate based on weather, tides follow gravitational cycles that are easy to forecast. Despite this reliability and growing...
  • Q&A With Danny Burgos: From the Medical Field to the Stage

    Arturo Hilario El Observador Danny Burgos first spoke with me in early 2016 as he was working on the national tour of the Beauty and the Beast musical in San Jose. Then he was a fresh-faced performing artist straight out of college who had just joined a touring Broadway...
  • Meet the Californians redefining school governance from the ground up

    Two California nonprofits are working to make school boards more effective, diverse, and inclusive, to counter the weaponization of cultural issues that often plagues school governance. The Education Justice Academy trains school board members or candidates twice a year on how to read a budget, how state funding or...
  • CA officials vow to defend birthright citizenship

    All babies born in California are still automatically American citizens and the state attorney general is vowing to keep it that way, despite a mixed ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices limited the ability of lower-court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, including those against President Donald Trump’s...
  • ¿Nacerán en Estados Unidos personas de segunda clase?

    La decisión incompleta de la Suprema Corte de Justicia sobre la orden ejecutiva para negar la ciudadanía por nacimiento a hijos de indocumentados, tiene implicaciones históricas para el futuro de Estados Unidos. Organizaciones de defensa de los derechos civiles y de los migrantes creen que si se termina negando...
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