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Los momentos mágicos del verano – viajes por carretera, días en la piscina y tardes en el jardín – no ocurren por casualidad. De hecho, hacer que esa magia ocurra puede sentirse como todo un desafío para los padres. Según una encuesta a padres estadounidenses encargada por Borden Cheese,...
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Every summer, Downtown San Jose’s restaurants come together for something worth clearing your calendar for. This July 9–19, Dine Downtown returns for its 18th year, and with the FIFA World Cup finale unfolding right here in Silicon Valley at the same time, the energy downtown is going to be...
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When the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green with algae just days after a US$15 million renovation, the U.S. government scrambled for chemicals and expensive technical solutions to fix the iconic landmark. Trying to kill algae with chemicals is a common response when community ponds or other water features go green. But...
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Big trucks and SUVs are contributing to a sharp rise in pedestrian deaths, which have increased 75% since 2009 in California and nationwide, according to a new investigation from The New York Times. The Times found that about 3,000 pedestrians killed between 2016 and 2024 would be alive today if cars...
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Khari Johnson, Wendy Fry & Yue Stella Yu CalMatters The Department of Motor Vehicles is on track to share driver’s license and identification data with an outside network despite concerns from immigrant advocates that the information could expose people to deportation. The California Legislature authorized that sharing in the state...
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Lucia was 26 when she crossed the border from Mexico into California in 2023 with her four children. She had hoped to escape from cartels that had killed her father and brother and were targeting her then 12-year-old son. Yet after arriving and over the next three years she...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters A proposal that would have set a first-of-its-kind minimum wage for certain housing construction workers in California is dead for the year in the face of fierce opposition from a major construction union coalition. Assembly Bill 1751 would fast-track the approval of new townhouses. In exchange for using the...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Following weeks of negotiations, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders on Monday June 29 approved a $352 billion budget for next year that raises some taxes, sets aside $6.4 billion for the year after and softens or delays billions of dollars in planned social service cuts....
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without resources to do reports, projects or homework assignments. Without notice to schools or librarians, the Legislature last week canceled $5.5 million that...
Los momentos mágicos del verano – viajes por carretera, días en la piscina y tardes en el jardín – no ocurren por casualidad. De hecho, hacer que esa magia ocurra puede sentirse como todo un desafío para los padres. Según una encuesta a padres estadounidenses encargada por Borden Cheese,...
Every summer, Downtown San Jose’s restaurants come together for something worth clearing your calendar for. This July 9–19, Dine Downtown returns for its 18th year, and with the FIFA World Cup finale unfolding right here in Silicon Valley at the same time, the energy downtown is going to be...
When the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green with algae just days after a US$15 million renovation, the U.S. government scrambled for chemicals and expensive technical solutions to fix the iconic landmark. Trying to kill algae with chemicals is a common response when community ponds or other water features go green. But...
Big trucks and SUVs are contributing to a sharp rise in pedestrian deaths, which have increased 75% since 2009 in California and nationwide, according to a new investigation from The New York Times. The Times found that about 3,000 pedestrians killed between 2016 and 2024 would be alive today if cars...
Khari Johnson, Wendy Fry & Yue Stella Yu CalMatters The Department of Motor Vehicles is on track to share driver’s license and identification data with an outside network despite concerns from immigrant advocates that the information could expose people to deportation. The California Legislature authorized that sharing in the state...
Lucia was 26 when she crossed the border from Mexico into California in 2023 with her four children. She had hoped to escape from cartels that had killed her father and brother and were targeting her then 12-year-old son. Yet after arriving and over the next three years she...
Ben Christopher CalMatters A proposal that would have set a first-of-its-kind minimum wage for certain housing construction workers in California is dead for the year in the face of fierce opposition from a major construction union coalition. Assembly Bill 1751 would fast-track the approval of new townhouses. In exchange for using the...
Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Following weeks of negotiations, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders on Monday June 29 approved a $352 billion budget for next year that raises some taxes, sets aside $6.4 billion for the year after and softens or delays billions of dollars in planned social service cuts....
Carolyn Jones CalMatters California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without resources to do reports, projects or homework assignments. Without notice to schools or librarians, the Legislature last week canceled $5.5 million that...