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As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago. When is California’s wildfire...
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Denise Amos CalMatters En los cursos de automoción de Marty Supple, los estudiantes se sumergen hasta los codos en motores de automóviles, deslizándose bajo chasis entreabiertos y tecleando lo que parecen marañas de cables en los tableros. Estos adolescentes están obteniendo créditos de la escuela secundaria y la universidad,...
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Denise Amos CalMatters In Marty Supple’s automotive courses, students are elbow deep in car engines, sliding under half-open chassis and plugging away at what looks like tangles of wires in dashboards. These teens are getting high school and college credits, at the same time they’re earning above minimum wage...
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A new study found more than 1.4 million children in the U.S., including many in California, have lost a family member to overdose, emphasizing the collateral damage of the drug epidemic. The study focused on children younger than 18 as of 2019 who had lost one or more parents, siblings, grandparents,...
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A new study found more than 1.4 million children in the U.S., including many in California, have lost a family member to overdose, emphasizing the collateral damage of the drug epidemic. The study focused on children younger than 18 as of 2019 who had lost one or more parents, siblings, grandparents,...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters Los inquilinos de California tendrán el doble de tiempo para responder a los avisos de desalojo y potencialmente evitarán perder sus hogares según un proyecto de ley convertido en ley por el gobernador Gavin Newsom el 24 de septiembre. La nueva ley llega en medio de...
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Felicia Mello CalMatters Tenants in California will have twice as much time to respond to eviction notices and potentially avoid losing their homes under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September. The new law comes amid a statewide housing crisis, and after a surge in evictions followed...
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Carolyn Jones & Khari Johnson CalMatters En la escuela secundaria Bullard de Fresno, es fácil ver los beneficios de prohibir los teléfonos celulares a los estudiantes. El acoso escolar ha disminuido y la socialización ha aumentado, dijo el director Armen Torigian. ¿Hacer cumplir las restricciones a los teléfonos inteligentes?...
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Carolyn Jones & Khari Johnson CalMatters At Bullard High School in Fresno, it’s easy to see the benefits of banning students’ cellphones. Bullying is down and socialization is up, principal Armen Torigian said. Enforcing the smartphone restrictions? That’s been harder. Instead of putting their devices in magnetically locked pouches,...