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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters When Maria Reyes migrated from Mexico and settled in West Long Beach in the late 1980s, she thought it would be the perfect neighborhood to raise her growing family. As her three children grew up and started being more active in school, they started developing strange...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Cinco años después de que la pandemia de COVID-19 afectara la economía e hiciera que millones de personas experimentaran hambre por primera vez, la demanda en el Banco de Alimentos y Servicios Familiares de Sacramento sigue siendo mayor que nunca. El número de clientes mensuales ha...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Five years since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the economy and made millions experience hunger for the first time, demand at the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services is still higher than ever. The number of monthly clients has risen to 310,000, more than double the number...
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La tragicomedia “Esperando a Godot”, del dramaturgo irlandés Samuel Beckett, se centra en dos hombres, Vladimir y Estragon, que esperan, en vano, que la llegada de un misterioso hombre llamado Godot dé sentido a sus miserables vidas. Se considera un ejemplo perfecto de la fascinación de la Europa posterior...
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Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot” centers on two men, Vladimir and Estragon, who hope, in vain, that the arrival of a mysterious man named Godot will bring meaning to their otherwise miserable lives. It’s considered to be a perfect example of Europe’s post-World War fascination with what was...
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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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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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In a world where environmental news is often marked by biodiversity loss and climate change, there is one story that inspires hope: the recovery of the monarch butterfly. For years, the iconic butterfly has been a symbol of resilience, but also an example of the challenges facing migratory species....
Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters When Maria Reyes migrated from Mexico and settled in West Long Beach in the late 1980s, she thought it would be the perfect neighborhood to raise her growing family. As her three children grew up and started being more active in school, they started developing strange...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Cinco años después de que la pandemia de COVID-19 afectara la economía e hiciera que millones de personas experimentaran hambre por primera vez, la demanda en el Banco de Alimentos y Servicios Familiares de Sacramento sigue siendo mayor que nunca. El número de clientes mensuales ha...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Five years since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the economy and made millions experience hunger for the first time, demand at the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services is still higher than ever. The number of monthly clients has risen to 310,000, more than double the number...
La tragicomedia “Esperando a Godot”, del dramaturgo irlandés Samuel Beckett, se centra en dos hombres, Vladimir y Estragon, que esperan, en vano, que la llegada de un misterioso hombre llamado Godot dé sentido a sus miserables vidas. Se considera un ejemplo perfecto de la fascinación de la Europa posterior...
Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot” centers on two men, Vladimir and Estragon, who hope, in vain, that the arrival of a mysterious man named Godot will bring meaning to their otherwise miserable lives. It’s considered to be a perfect example of Europe’s post-World War fascination with what was...
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,...
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...
In a world where environmental news is often marked by biodiversity loss and climate change, there is one story that inspires hope: the recovery of the monarch butterfly. For years, the iconic butterfly has been a symbol of resilience, but also an example of the challenges facing migratory species....