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Alejandra Reyes-Velarde CalMatters When Maria Reyes migrated from Mexico and settled in West Long Beach in the late 1980s, she thought it would be the perfect neighborhood to raise her growing family. As her three children grew up and started being more active in school, they started developing strange...
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Khari Johnson CalMatters AI can get rid of racist restrictions in housing covenants and help people access government benefits, or it can deny people health care or a mortgage because of their race. That’s why, last month, for the third year in a row, Democratic Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of San Ramon proposed a bill to protect people from automated...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County. Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield. A fresh splash of crimson juts east of Chico like a fresh wound. With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps this week,...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador This Valentine’s Day roses won’t be the only popular and red hued things. A bright red Hulk, played by Harrison Ford, will be terrorizing Washington D.C. and destroying the capitol’s most famous structures, from the White House and the Washington Monument to the famous cherry...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters It’ll be a while before Los Angeles can fully assess the damage to its schools from this recent spate of fires, but a few things already seem certain: rebuilding will take a long time, it will be expensive, and it may sap the statewide fund for...
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As anticipated, the administration of President Donald Trump has intensified its “targeted” immigration policy actions with detentions in cities like Chicago and repatriations in military aircraft. The priority of immigration agencies like the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are those migrants who represent a risk to public safety or...
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Este año entrarán en vigor dos nuevas leyes diseñadas para proteger a los consumidores de California: tomar medidas enérgicas contra las suscripciones difíciles de cancelar y ciertos tipos de comisiones bancarias. El proyecto de ley 2863 de la Asamblea, que entrará en vigor el 1 de julio, exigirá que...
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Two new laws designed to protect California consumers take effect this year – cracking down on hard-to-cancel subscriptions and certain types of bank fees. Assembly bill 2863 – which takes effect July 1 – will require subscription services to be as easy to cancel as they are to sign onto....
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La Casa Blanca anunció el martes dos nuevos monumentos nacionales en California, uno justo al este de Palm Springs y el otro cerca del lago Shasta. La próxima semana se llevará a cabo una ceremonia de firma, ya que el evento de inauguración se pospuso debido a los fuertes...