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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Suzanne Potter California News Service SANTA MONICA, Calif. – This week is the first-ever “National Week of Conversation” – a series of events promoted by local groups that work to bridge the partisan divide – in California and across the nation. The idea is to get people talking about...
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Sheri Engler While opportunities for women have advanced significantly in recent decades, studies reflect that the path to personal independence and growth isn’t always smooth – starting in early childhood up through high school. Gender stereotypes persist. According to a survey of 1,900 girls and young women between 7...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SANTA MONICA, Calif. – This week is the first-ever “National Week of Conversation” – a series of events promoted by local groups that work to bridge the partisan divide – in California and across the nation. The idea is to get people talking about...
Sheri Engler While opportunities for women have advanced significantly in recent decades, studies reflect that the path to personal independence and growth isn’t always smooth – starting in early childhood up through high school. Gender stereotypes persist. According to a survey of 1,900 girls and young women between 7...