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The recent violence in Minnesota that resulted in the assassination of House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted assassination of senator John Hoffman and his wife, are still shrouded in mystery as the details of the assault are still to be clarified. This has once...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County. Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield. A fresh splash of crimson juts east of Chico like a fresh wound. With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps this week,...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Mientras los legisladores ultiman un bono para instalaciones escolares para la votación de noviembre, algunos superintendentes de distritos pequeños y de bajos ingresos dicen que la propuesta les deja con una sensación muy familiar: falta de fondos y pasados por alto. “¿Estoy loco? Sí, estoy muy...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters As lawmakers finalize a school facilities bond for the November ballot, some superintendents from low-income and small districts say the proposal leaves them with an all-too-familiar feeling: underfunded and overlooked. “Am I mad? Yeah, I am very mad,” said Gudiel Crosthwaite, superintendent of Lynwood Unified, in...
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The chaos and confusion surrounding the hastily introduced and controversial anti-immigrant legislation in Texas, SB4, grew Tuesday night when a federal court blocked the implementation of the legislation after the Supreme Court of Justice had paved the way to enforce it. A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services Mientras miles de manifestantes se sentaban a cuadras de la Casa Blanca pidiendo un alto el fuego permanente en Gaza, el presidente Joe Biden pronunció un encendido discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión el 7 de marzo, afirmando que Israel tiene derecho a...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services As thousands of protesters sat blocks away from the White House calling for a permanent cease fire in Gaza, President Joe Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address March 7, stating that Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But...
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Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Adam Schiff has likely punched his ticket to the U.S. Senate. Placing first in California’s top-two primary as of early March 6, the Democratic U.S. representative is heading into the November election against former L.A. Dodgers legend Steve Garvey — the Republican in second place,...
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Los puntajes de las pruebas estandarizadas y las tasas de graduación de los estudiantes afroamericanos han estado muy por detrás de los de sus compañeros blancos y asiáticos. Durante décadas, los educadores y los legisladores han tratado de cerrar esa brecha de rendimiento, y una propuesta de financiamiento escolar en...