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Peter White Ethnic Media Servies Barely three weeks after the start of this year’s tax filing season, the IRS had received 19 million tax returns, processed 16.8 million of them, and issued eight million refunds each averaging $1,963. The message – IRS Deputy Commissioner Kevin Moorehead told reporters on...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Todo comenzó con un lugar de estacionamiento. En una tarde de septiembre de 2017, Chris Langer no pudo encontrar uno que acomodara su camioneta y la rampa que usa para su silla de ruedas detrás de una tienda de langostas de San Diego. Lo que sucedió...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters It all started with a parking spot. On a breezy afternoon in September 2017, Chris Langer couldn’t find one that would accommodate his van and the ramp he uses for his wheelchair behind a San Diego lobster shop. What transpired next has been the subject of...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters California solía necesitar muchas, pero muchas prisiones. Prisiones grandes, prisiones pequeñas, prisiones con celdas especiales para líderes de pandillas y prisiones para condenados por artimañas financieras consideradas no violentas. Había tantos presos amontonados en tantas prisiones que los tribunales federales intervinieron y ordenaron que el estado...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters California used to need lots and lots of prisons. Big prisons, little prisons, prisons with special cells for gang leaders and prisons for those convicted of nonviolent financial chicanery. There were so many prisoners packed into so many prisons that federal courts intervened, mandating that the...
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While controversy rages on about the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course, Black students in a new survey say they want a more inclusive curriculum. In the survey by YouthTruth, Black students said they feel learning about Black American or African history can be a guiding factor...
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Wendy Fry CalMatters On a recent night, by the Miramar Reservoir in San Diego County, a man named Erwin sat at a picnic table scrolling through dozens of texts from his wife. He read aloud her warnings about police patrolling a road near their home. “‘There’s a lot of...
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In a significant course change, the California Department of Health Care Services announced that it has negotiated with five commercial health plans to provide Medi-Cal services in 2024, scratching a two-year-long bidding process for the coveted state contracts. This upends the state’s previous plans of awarding contracts to only...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Living on the streets of California is a deadly affair. The life expectancy of an unsheltered person is 50, according to national estimates, nearly 30 years less than that of the average Californian. As homelessness spirals out of control throughout the state, so too do deaths on the street, but...
Peter White Ethnic Media Servies Barely three weeks after the start of this year’s tax filing season, the IRS had received 19 million tax returns, processed 16.8 million of them, and issued eight million refunds each averaging $1,963. The message – IRS Deputy Commissioner Kevin Moorehead told reporters on...
Nigel Duara CalMatters Todo comenzó con un lugar de estacionamiento. En una tarde de septiembre de 2017, Chris Langer no pudo encontrar uno que acomodara su camioneta y la rampa que usa para su silla de ruedas detrás de una tienda de langostas de San Diego. Lo que sucedió...
Nigel Duara CalMatters It all started with a parking spot. On a breezy afternoon in September 2017, Chris Langer couldn’t find one that would accommodate his van and the ramp he uses for his wheelchair behind a San Diego lobster shop. What transpired next has been the subject of...
Nigel Duara CalMatters California solía necesitar muchas, pero muchas prisiones. Prisiones grandes, prisiones pequeñas, prisiones con celdas especiales para líderes de pandillas y prisiones para condenados por artimañas financieras consideradas no violentas. Había tantos presos amontonados en tantas prisiones que los tribunales federales intervinieron y ordenaron que el estado...
Nigel Duara CalMatters California used to need lots and lots of prisons. Big prisons, little prisons, prisons with special cells for gang leaders and prisons for those convicted of nonviolent financial chicanery. There were so many prisoners packed into so many prisons that federal courts intervened, mandating that the...
While controversy rages on about the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course, Black students in a new survey say they want a more inclusive curriculum. In the survey by YouthTruth, Black students said they feel learning about Black American or African history can be a guiding factor...
Wendy Fry CalMatters On a recent night, by the Miramar Reservoir in San Diego County, a man named Erwin sat at a picnic table scrolling through dozens of texts from his wife. He read aloud her warnings about police patrolling a road near their home. “‘There’s a lot of...
In a significant course change, the California Department of Health Care Services announced that it has negotiated with five commercial health plans to provide Medi-Cal services in 2024, scratching a two-year-long bidding process for the coveted state contracts. This upends the state’s previous plans of awarding contracts to only...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters Living on the streets of California is a deadly affair. The life expectancy of an unsheltered person is 50, according to national estimates, nearly 30 years less than that of the average Californian. As homelessness spirals out of control throughout the state, so too do deaths on the street, but...