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El incendio de Eaton arrasó Altadena hace aproximadamente un año, dejando propiedades contaminadas con sustancias tóxicas. Grupos locales continúan ayudando a las familias a recuperarse. El incendio desplazó a más de 22,000 personas y destruyó cerca de 10 mil estructuras, muchas de ellas en barrios históricamente negros. Heavenly Hughes, cofundadora y...
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The Eaton Fire burned through Altadena about a year ago, leaving behind properties contaminated by toxic pollutants. Local groups continue to help families pick up the pieces. The fire displaced more than 22,000 people and destroyed close to 10,000 structures, many in historically Black neighborhoods. Heavenly Hughes, co-founder and executive director...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Six years ago, a federal judge decided that a California Highway Patrol officer was protected from a civil lawsuit filed by the estate of a man involved in a one-car accident on a Costa Mesa freeway on-ramp. The Highway Patrol officer, Samantha Diaz-Durazo, did not call...
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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision last week that all Californians should have access to a state cell phone service subsidy program, even if they don’t have a Social Security number or can’t immediately provide one. Earlier this year, CalMatters reported that the LifeLine application still asks...
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Justo Robles CalMatters En las últimas horas del 15 de septiembre de 2022, Pablo Silva y otros cuatro venezolanos deambulaban por el centro de Sacramento, una ciudad de la que nunca habían oído hablar, en busca de un techo sobre sus cabezas. No lo encontraron. Habían viajado miles de...
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Justo Robles CalMatters In the final hours of Sept. 15, 2022, Pablo Silva and four other Venezuelan men were wandering downtown Sacramento, a city they had never heard of, searching for a roof over their heads. They didn’t find it. They had traveled thousands of miles to escape violence...
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El estado dijo que el caso contra Playa Vista sería el mayor pago de robo de salarios por parte de un lavado de autos de California. Años después, Antonio Domínguez y docenas de otros lavadores de autos aún no han visto ninguno de sus salarios impagos. Antonio Domínguez nunca...
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Antonio Dominguez had never seen a car wash before moving to Los Angeles from Mexico in 1997. As a 24-year-old day laborer, he’d walk home each day, stop along a palm-lined boulevard and watch a team of mostly Mexican workers sponge, rinse, dry and polish a line of cars....
El incendio de Eaton arrasó Altadena hace aproximadamente un año, dejando propiedades contaminadas con sustancias tóxicas. Grupos locales continúan ayudando a las familias a recuperarse. El incendio desplazó a más de 22,000 personas y destruyó cerca de 10 mil estructuras, muchas de ellas en barrios históricamente negros. Heavenly Hughes, cofundadora y...
The Eaton Fire burned through Altadena about a year ago, leaving behind properties contaminated by toxic pollutants. Local groups continue to help families pick up the pieces. The fire displaced more than 22,000 people and destroyed close to 10,000 structures, many in historically Black neighborhoods. Heavenly Hughes, co-founder and executive director...
Nigel Duara CalMatters Six years ago, a federal judge decided that a California Highway Patrol officer was protected from a civil lawsuit filed by the estate of a man involved in a one-car accident on a Costa Mesa freeway on-ramp. The Highway Patrol officer, Samantha Diaz-Durazo, did not call...
Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision last week that all Californians should have access to a state cell phone service subsidy program, even if they don’t have a Social Security number or can’t immediately provide one. Earlier this year, CalMatters reported that the LifeLine application still asks...
Justo Robles CalMatters En las últimas horas del 15 de septiembre de 2022, Pablo Silva y otros cuatro venezolanos deambulaban por el centro de Sacramento, una ciudad de la que nunca habían oído hablar, en busca de un techo sobre sus cabezas. No lo encontraron. Habían viajado miles de...
Justo Robles CalMatters In the final hours of Sept. 15, 2022, Pablo Silva and four other Venezuelan men were wandering downtown Sacramento, a city they had never heard of, searching for a roof over their heads. They didn’t find it. They had traveled thousands of miles to escape violence...
El estado dijo que el caso contra Playa Vista sería el mayor pago de robo de salarios por parte de un lavado de autos de California. Años después, Antonio Domínguez y docenas de otros lavadores de autos aún no han visto ninguno de sus salarios impagos. Antonio Domínguez nunca...
Antonio Dominguez had never seen a car wash before moving to Los Angeles from Mexico in 1997. As a 24-year-old day laborer, he’d walk home each day, stop along a palm-lined boulevard and watch a team of mostly Mexican workers sponge, rinse, dry and polish a line of cars....