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María Ángeles Bonmatí Carrión The Conversation Living in cities that never sleep has its price: inhabitants are getting less, worse quality, sleep. We cannot forget that sleep, though often undervalued, is a fundamental part of staying in good health. It is well established that if we don’t get enough, we...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters La semana pasada, una densa niebla cubrió el estuario de Tijuana en Imperial Beach, desprendiendo un penetrante olor a huevo podrido, consecuencia de las burbujas de sulfuro de hidrógeno que brotaban del contaminado río Tijuana. Virginia Castellanos, la enfermera escolar de la Bayside STEAM Academy, cerca...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters Last week fog crept over the Tijuana Estuary in Imperial Beach, oozing a pungent rotten-egg smell, as hydrogen sulfide bubbled up from the polluted Tijuana River. Virginia Castellanos, the school nurse for Bayside STEAM Academy near the estuary, worried that students would get headaches, upset stomachs...
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Tfrontado & Brittany Oceguera CalMatters Para los estudiantes universitarios que buscan un trabajo que se ajuste a sus horarios académicos y la oportunidad de realizar un trabajo significativo en sus comunidades, un programa estatal popular ofrece ambos. Desde su lanzamiento en 2022, el programa estatal College Corps ha remunerado a estudiantes...
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Brittany Oceguera CalMatters For college students seeking a job that fits around their academic schedules, and the opportunity to do meaningful work in their communities, a popular state program offers both. Since it launched in 2022, the state program known as College Corps has been paying college students for community service...
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If you’ve filled up your car’s gas tank in recent days, you’ve probably noticed that gas prices have risen dramatically. This is due to the powder keg created by the decision of the United States and Israel to attack Iran, and Iran’s decision to close the Strait of Hormuz,...
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N.C. Greene American Community Media “Las manos que antes recogían algodón ahora pueden elegir presidentes”. Cuando el reverendo Jesse Jackson pronunció esas palabras durante la Convención Nacional Demócrata de 1984 y a lo largo de su campaña presidencial de 1988, cambió la forma en que se concebía públicamente la...
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N.C. Greene American Community Media “Hands that once picked cotton can now pick presidents.” When Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered those words during the 1984 Democratic National Convention and throughout his 1988 presidential campaign, he shifted how Black political participation was publicly imagined. He placed the descendants of enslaved laborers...
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Every time you buy a product at the supermarket, you are casting a vote. This isn’t a vote that stays in a ballot box, but one that helps determine, day after day, what kind of world we are building. In a context of climate crisis and soil degradation, sustainable...