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Groups fighting to improve access to health care are asking the U.S. Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy is an environmental lawyer who ran for president, then threw his support to Donald Trump in August. Matthew Herdman, California state director...
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What a coincidence. Exactly five weeks before the November 5 elections, President Joe Biden thought it was the best time to further tighten restrictions on the right to asylum and affect the most vulnerable people. Is it a coincidence that one of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ greatest weaknesses...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters En un hito importante, los reguladores estatales anunciaron en julio que casi un millón más de californianos tienen ahora agua potable segura que hace cinco años. Pero en todo el estado, el problema sigue siendo grave: más de 735,000 personas siguen recibiendo agua de los casi 400 sistemas que no...
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Rachel Becker CalMatters In a major milestone, state regulators announced in July that nearly a million more Californians now have safe drinking water than five years ago. But across the state, the problem remains severe: More than 735,000 people are still served by the nearly 400 water systems that fail to meet state...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Los pasillos del Best Start Birth Center de San Diego están repletos de collages coloridos, con las caras suaves de cientos de recién nacidos cuidadosamente recortadas y enmarcadas. Una fotografía del hijo de la directora ejecutiva Karen Roslie, nacido en 2003, cuelga entre los bebés sonrientes,...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Colorful collages line the hallways of Best Start Birth Center in San Diego, the squishy faces of hundreds of newborns carefully cut out and framed. A picture of executive director Karen Roslie’s son, born in 2003, hangs among the smiling, crying and squinting babies. Thirty years...
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Over the weekend, while self-isolating and recovering from COVID, President Joe Biden announced he is stepping down as the Democratic candidate in the 2024 election. Biden officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to become the new Democratic nominee. Nina Eliasoph, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, said while...
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Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters Era el viernes por la mañana cuando el agua fangosa y color marrón comenzó a precipitarse sobre las granjas del Valle de Salinas de Michelle Hackett. A un lado del negocio de cannabis Riverview Farms de su familia, se desbordó un...
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Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was late Friday morning when muddy, brown water started rushing onto Michelle Hackett’s Salinas Valley farms. On one side of her family’s Riverview Farms cannabis business, a county-mandated retention pond overflowed. Next door, a farm abandoned by another grower —...
Groups fighting to improve access to health care are asking the U.S. Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy is an environmental lawyer who ran for president, then threw his support to Donald Trump in August. Matthew Herdman, California state director...
What a coincidence. Exactly five weeks before the November 5 elections, President Joe Biden thought it was the best time to further tighten restrictions on the right to asylum and affect the most vulnerable people. Is it a coincidence that one of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ greatest weaknesses...
Rachel Becker CalMatters En un hito importante, los reguladores estatales anunciaron en julio que casi un millón más de californianos tienen ahora agua potable segura que hace cinco años. Pero en todo el estado, el problema sigue siendo grave: más de 735,000 personas siguen recibiendo agua de los casi 400 sistemas que no...
Rachel Becker CalMatters In a major milestone, state regulators announced in July that nearly a million more Californians now have safe drinking water than five years ago. But across the state, the problem remains severe: More than 735,000 people are still served by the nearly 400 water systems that fail to meet state...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters Los pasillos del Best Start Birth Center de San Diego están repletos de collages coloridos, con las caras suaves de cientos de recién nacidos cuidadosamente recortadas y enmarcadas. Una fotografía del hijo de la directora ejecutiva Karen Roslie, nacido en 2003, cuelga entre los bebés sonrientes,...
Kristen Hwang CalMatters Colorful collages line the hallways of Best Start Birth Center in San Diego, the squishy faces of hundreds of newborns carefully cut out and framed. A picture of executive director Karen Roslie’s son, born in 2003, hangs among the smiling, crying and squinting babies. Thirty years...
Over the weekend, while self-isolating and recovering from COVID, President Joe Biden announced he is stepping down as the Democratic candidate in the 2024 election. Biden officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to become the new Democratic nominee. Nina Eliasoph, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, said while...
Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters Era el viernes por la mañana cuando el agua fangosa y color marrón comenzó a precipitarse sobre las granjas del Valle de Salinas de Michelle Hackett. A un lado del negocio de cannabis Riverview Farms de su familia, se desbordó un...
Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy & Wendy Fry CalMatters It was late Friday morning when muddy, brown water started rushing onto Michelle Hackett’s Salinas Valley farms. On one side of her family’s Riverview Farms cannabis business, a county-mandated retention pond overflowed. Next door, a farm abandoned by another grower —...
