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Students at Chico State University are no longer required to mask up indoors in order to prevent COVID-19. But Chico State public health professor Lindsay Briggs still requires students to wear masks in her class out of concern for her immunocompromised wife, who has lung problems. “I told my...
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As children grow up, parents and caregivers across California face the difficult decision of how to oversee social media use. But is that decision made harder by a lack of legal protections for children in the Golden State? Marc Berkman is CEO of the California-based nonprofit Organization for Social...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters The man was screaming, but the beating didn’t stop. It was June 27, 2000, and a group of rogue cops was at work in West Oakland. The Oakland police officers operated in one of the most dangerous beats in one of the most violent parts of...
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Utah’s Legislature has overridden Republican Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto of House Bill 11, which now mandates young transgender athletes can play only for teams based on their sex, not their gender identification. Opponents of this type of legislation said it is another way to discriminate against young transgender people, and...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk La captura de metano, el proceso de utilizar la descomposición de los subproductos del ganado como el estiércol de vaca y cerdo para generar electricidad, es una tecnología prometedora. Ayuda a resolver los males existentes y por el momento, necesarios, como las emisiones...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Methane capture, the process of using the decomposition of livestock byproducts like cow and hog manure to generate electricity, is a promising technology. It helps to resolve existing, and for the time being, necessary evils such as climate-warming methane emissions from cattle...
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A father killed his three children and their chaperone before turning the gun on himself during a court ordered supervised visitation in a church parking lot. The horrifying incident took place in Sacramento, and it has not yet been recognized by the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, or the state’s...