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Ben Christopher CalMatters Una semana después de que las negociaciones para rescatar el tambaleante mercado de seguros de vivienda de California se estancaran en la Legislatura , el principal regulador de seguros del estado presentó su propio plan de rescate que efectivamente equivale a un intercambio para las principales aseguradoras del...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters A week after negotiations to rescue California’s floundering home insurance market stalled out in the Legislature, the state’s top insurance regulator put out his own rescue plan that effectively amounts to a trade for the state’s major insurers. Under proposed regulations Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced this...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters The hottest new restaurant in California might be your local elementary school. Thanks to a surge of nearly $15 billion in state and federal funding, school districts are ditching the old standbys — frozen pizza and chicken nuggets — in favor of organic salads, free-range grilled...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Las ciudades del interior, incluidas Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia y Riverside, que alguna vez fueron opciones más baratas que lugares costosos como el Área de la Bahía, ya no son refugios de la crisis de asequibilidad de viviendas de California. Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, el...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Inland cities including Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia and Riverside — once cheaper options than pricey places such as the Bay Area — are no longer refuges from California’s housing affordability crisis. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the typical asking rent in these former bastions of relative...
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Rocky Walker CalMatters When Isabella Warren, a student at California State University Northridge, was placed on academic probation in 2020, she felt isolated. She had fallen behind during the transition to online classes at the start of the pandemic, dealing with the strain of lockdown as well as the...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters En todo California, las ciudades se están quedando cortas cuando se trata de proporcionar suficiente refugio para sus comunidades de personas sin hogar. Más de 69,000 residentes sin hogar viven en el condado de Los Ángeles, por ejemplo, pero ese condado tiene poco más de 21,000...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters All over California, cities are falling far short when it comes to providing enough shelter for their homeless communities. More than 69,000 homeless residents live in Los Angeles County, for instance, but that county has just over 21,000 beds in shelters and temporary housing programs. It’s...
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Alyssa Story & Carmen González CalMatters For the last decade Teague O’Shea has been in and out of college. Now, at 42 years old, he is trying again. Furthering his education was important to O’Shea, who had been working as an apprentice electrician for his local water district, but...