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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Chalk one up for the 4-year-olds. Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being. Last month, President Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of Head Start,...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Uno de cada tres estadounidenses tradicionalmente espera hasta el 15 de abril para presentar su declaración de impuestos. Los residentes de San Francisco y San José, California, ocupan un lugar destacado en la lista nacional de “procrastinadores fiscales”. En una encuesta estatal, California ocupa...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Carolyn Jones CalMatters Chalk one up for the 4-year-olds. Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being. Last month, President Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of Head Start,...
Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Uno de cada tres estadounidenses tradicionalmente espera hasta el 15 de abril para presentar su declaración de impuestos. Los residentes de San Francisco y San José, California, ocupan un lugar destacado en la lista nacional de “procrastinadores fiscales”. En una encuesta estatal, California ocupa...
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...