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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services As a worsening opioid epidemic ranks among California’s most challenging crises, the Sierra Health Center is reducing harm through care over criminalization. At a Thursday, January 18 briefing co-hosted by EMS and Sierra Health on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, three leaders of...
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So, you made a New Year’s resolution to add more better-for-you foods into your daily routine – but have you figured out what those new foods are going to be yet? One of the biggest challenges with improving eating habits is finding great options that you enjoy – this...
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Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services HALF MOON BAY, Ca. – Residents and public officials gathered in Half Moon Bay on Sunday January 21 for a memorial marking the one-year anniversary of a shooting that claimed the lives of seven farmworkers. The event came on the heels of another shooting...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Dos legisladores de California se enfrentaron públicamente a principios de este mes, tocando un punto sensible en un tema que ha dividido durante mucho tiempo a los funcionarios electos del estado: si se debe ofrecer beneficios de salud subsidiados por el gobierno a los residentes indocumentados y...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Two California lawmakers publicly blew up at each other earlier this month, hitting a nerve on an issue that has long-divided the state’s elected leaders: Whether and how much to offer government-subsidized health benefits to undocumented residents. In one corner, Corona Assemblymember Bill Essayli declared that he wanted...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Dos de los cuatro hijos de Johanna Wonderly dependen de prótesis auditivas y los otros dos probablemente los necesitarán en el futuro. A un precio de aproximadamente 6,000 dólares por niño el costo aumenta rápidamente. Pero la familia Roseville sólo puede permitírselo cuando el marido de...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Two of Johanna Wonderly’s four children depend on hearing aids, and the other two will probably need them in the future. At roughly $6,000 per child, the cost adds up quickly. But the Roseville family can only afford them when Wonderly’s husband, Paul, is called to...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters In its continued battle to bulletproof the right to abortion, California is suing two major anti-abortion groups over claims made about the viability of “abortion pill reversal,” Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday September 21. Heartbeat International, a national anti-abortion group, and RealOptions Obria, a chain...
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Community members in the Lake Arrowhead area are planning to distribute free rainbow flags this week – in memory of Lauri Carleton, a 66-year-old shopkeeper shot to death on Friday August 18 by a young man who demanded she take down the store’s Pride flag. Carleton’s husband chased the...