-
Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters La deuda médica pesa mucho sobre la vida de millones de californianos. Puede afectar su calificación crediticia y perjudicar sus posibilidades de conseguir un alquiler o una hipoteca para su vivienda. A principios de este año, la administración Biden anunció una propuesta para impedir que...
-
Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Medical debt weighs heavily on the lives of millions of Californians. It can ding their credit scores and hurt their chances of landing a rental or securing a home mortgage. Earlier this year, the Biden administration announced a proposal to stop medical debt from showing...
-
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...
-
Starting October 1st, it will get a lot easier for people with old felony convictions to get them expunged from their record – as Senate Bill 731, passed two years ago, is fully implemented. Before, only records from 2005 or later could be cleared, but now the law covers records...
-
Rachel Becker CalMatters A pesar de las perpetuas luchas de California con la escasez de agua, los reguladores estatales adoptaron la semana pasada medidas de conservación obligatorias que son sustancialmente más débiles y ahorran menos agua de lo que planearon originalmente. Las reglas, que tardaron años en elaborarse, fueron...
-
Rachel Becker CalMatters Despite California’s perpetual struggles with water shortages, state regulators this week adopted mandatory conservation measures that are substantially weaker and save less water than they originally planned. The rules, years in the making, were mandated by a package of laws that tasked state agencies with making...
-
Clean-air groups are calling the Biden administration’s new rules on vehicle pollution the single biggest action the Environmental Protection Agency has ever taken to fight climate change. The EPA’s new policy requires auto companies to reduce the pollution from cars starting in model year 2027. Laura Deehan, state director of Environment...
-
Adam Echelman CalMatters Muchos puestos del gobierno de California no requieren un título universitario. Esa lista puede crecer a medida que las agencias enfrentan un aumento en las vacantes de empleo. Durante la última década, las ciudades, los condados y el gobierno estatal de California han estado cambiando las...