-
Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media One out of every 3 Americans traditionally wait until April 15 to file their taxes. Residents of San Francisco and San Jose, California rank high on the list of national “tax procrastinators.” In a survey of states, California ranks 13 with the number of tax procrastinators,...
-
Sergio Olmos & Wendy Fry CalMatters Había silencio en la frontera. Un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza llamado James Lee estaba estacionado en la sombra junto a una valla de 9 metros en Calexico. Las ventanillas de su camioneta estaban subidas; el motor hacía ese ruido cuando está parado mucho tiempo...
-
Sergio Olmos & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was quiet on the border. A Border Patrol agent named James Lee was parked in the shade next to a 30-foot fence in Calexico. The windows of his SUV were rolled up, the engine making that noise when it’s idle for a...
-
Tara García Mathewson CalMatters Durante la pandemia, Jon Siapno, un veterano consejero universitario y profesional del Área de la Bahía, comenzó a desarrollar un chatbot que pudiera responder las preguntas de los estudiantes de secundaria sobre sus futuras opciones educativas. Estaba usando Watson, el precursor de preguntas y respuestas...
-
Tara García Mathewson CalMatters During the pandemic, longtime Bay Area college and career counselor Jon Siapno started developing a chatbot that could answer high schoolers’ questions about their future education options. He was using IBM’s question-answering precursor to ChatGPT, Watson, but when generative artificial intelligence became accessible, he knew...
-
Adam Echelman CalMatters In January 2023, and continuing throughout the spring, rain swelled many of California’s reservoirs and creeks, engulfing homes and businesses and killing 21 people. One federal estimate says it cost the state nearly $5 billion. Now, nearly two years later, it’s Alexis Ramirez’s job to help pick...
-
Nebraska was among the states affected by the recent E. coli outbreak traced to onions in McDonald’s hamburgers. Federal officials said they are now certain about the source but broader questions about the overlap with beef production linger. The outbreak caused at least one death and sickened dozens of...
-
After an Orange County resident flushes her toilet, the water flows through the Southern California community’s sewer system, meanders its way to the sanitation plant, has its solids removed, is piped to a wastewater recycling facility next door and undergoes three different purification processes until it is clean enough...
-
Alexei Koseff CalMatters Un anuncio de campaña que inunda las ondas de televisión en la región de Sacramento durante esta temporada electoral advierte que el actual asambleísta republicano está “respaldado por extremistas anti abortistas” que “saben que respaldará su peligrosa agenda antielección”. Los residentes de los suburbios del norte...
Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media One out of every 3 Americans traditionally wait until April 15 to file their taxes. Residents of San Francisco and San Jose, California rank high on the list of national “tax procrastinators.” In a survey of states, California ranks 13 with the number of tax procrastinators,...
Sergio Olmos & Wendy Fry CalMatters Había silencio en la frontera. Un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza llamado James Lee estaba estacionado en la sombra junto a una valla de 9 metros en Calexico. Las ventanillas de su camioneta estaban subidas; el motor hacía ese ruido cuando está parado mucho tiempo...
Sergio Olmos & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was quiet on the border. A Border Patrol agent named James Lee was parked in the shade next to a 30-foot fence in Calexico. The windows of his SUV were rolled up, the engine making that noise when it’s idle for a...
Tara García Mathewson CalMatters Durante la pandemia, Jon Siapno, un veterano consejero universitario y profesional del Área de la Bahía, comenzó a desarrollar un chatbot que pudiera responder las preguntas de los estudiantes de secundaria sobre sus futuras opciones educativas. Estaba usando Watson, el precursor de preguntas y respuestas...
Tara García Mathewson CalMatters During the pandemic, longtime Bay Area college and career counselor Jon Siapno started developing a chatbot that could answer high schoolers’ questions about their future education options. He was using IBM’s question-answering precursor to ChatGPT, Watson, but when generative artificial intelligence became accessible, he knew...
Adam Echelman CalMatters In January 2023, and continuing throughout the spring, rain swelled many of California’s reservoirs and creeks, engulfing homes and businesses and killing 21 people. One federal estimate says it cost the state nearly $5 billion. Now, nearly two years later, it’s Alexis Ramirez’s job to help pick...
Nebraska was among the states affected by the recent E. coli outbreak traced to onions in McDonald’s hamburgers. Federal officials said they are now certain about the source but broader questions about the overlap with beef production linger. The outbreak caused at least one death and sickened dozens of...
After an Orange County resident flushes her toilet, the water flows through the Southern California community’s sewer system, meanders its way to the sanitation plant, has its solids removed, is piped to a wastewater recycling facility next door and undergoes three different purification processes until it is clean enough...
Alexei Koseff CalMatters Un anuncio de campaña que inunda las ondas de televisión en la región de Sacramento durante esta temporada electoral advierte que el actual asambleísta republicano está “respaldado por extremistas anti abortistas” que “saben que respaldará su peligrosa agenda antielección”. Los residentes de los suburbios del norte...