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  • California-Mexico Advocacy Day Celebrated in Sacramento

    This year’s theme, “The Students We Share,” focused on binational cooperation on education   Sacramento, CA – Senator Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) and the Select Committee on California-Mexico Cooperation hosted an informational hearing titled “The Students We Share: A Discussion on Expanding Educational Opportunities for Trans-border Students” on Tuesday May 8. ...
  • California Explores New Way to Redevelop Cities, Improve Livability

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SAN JOSE, Calif. – Many California communities are confronting the housing crisis by encouraging higher-density housing near public transportation in ways that also make the area more livable. AARP, the City of San Jose and the Valley Transportation Authority just wrapped up a week-long event...
  • California explora una nueva forma de re-desarrollar sus ciudades y mejorar su habitabilidad

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SAN JOSE, Calif. – La semana pasada se puso en accion, en San Jose, una innovadora manera de re-desarrollar las ciudades mas antiguas, con la organizacion de un evento que reunio a propietarios de inmuebles, desarrolladores, residentes y funcionarios locales para trabajar en un taller...
  • Workers’ Memorial Day: Group Calls for Justice After Farmworker Death

    Eric Tegethoff Public News Service SUMAS, Wash. – Saturday April 28 was Workers’ Memorial Day, a commemoration of people who’ve lost their lives on the job. In Washington state, the farm community is remembering Ernesto Silva Ibarra, a 28-year-old farmworker who became ill last summer while picking berries during...
  • Subsidio disponible para hacer más habitables las comunidades

    Linda Barr California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – La AARP esta repartiendo decenas de miles de dolares en todo el pais entre agencias locales y gubernamentales, con el fin de fondear proyectos de rapida accion que mejoren la habitabilidad en las ciudades. Las agencias locales sin fines de lucro...
  • Grants Available to Make Communities More Livable

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Local nonprofits and government agencies always are looking for ways to make their communities more livable. And now a grant program from AARP can help make some of those projects a reality. The AARP Community Challenge 2018 will fund projects that...
  • Baby Lemur Welcomed to the   Happy Hollow Park & Zoo Family

    HHPZ   SAN JOSE, CA – Happy Hollow Park & Zoo (HHPZ) is helping slow the decline of critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs. Zookeepers and staff are tickled by the wide-eyed male lemur pup born at the Zoo on April 6.    “This pup has stolen our hearts. The...
  • Trump Administration Proposes Raising Rents on Low-Income Families

    Co-op Housing Groups Offer Alternative Suzanne Potter California News Service OAKLAND Calif. – Groups that work on issues of poverty and housing are criticizing the Trump administration’s proposal to raise rents on low-income families and institute work requirements. On Wednesday, Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, announced...
  • County of Santa Clara Celebrates Grand Opening of South County Reentry Resource Center

    Permanent site offers services to Gilroy, San Martin and Morgan Hill residents reentering their communities after incarceration   SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF.— The County of Santa Clara Office of Reentry Services celebrated the grand opening of its new South County Reentry Resource Center this week. The Center has moved to...
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