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Shreya Agrawal CalMatters California has poured billions of dollars into finding homes for unhoused veterans, but the number of former military service members living on the street has held steady for almost a decade. Today, a third of the nation’s unhoused veterans are in California. Tori Gibson of San...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Los psicodélicos están teniendo un momento. Un impulso a nivel nacional para incorporar los hongos mágicos y otros psicodélicos al uso regular está ganando terreno, y algunos californianos quieren participar. Si bien los alucinógenos a menudo se asocian con la cultura de las drogas de...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Psychedelics are having a moment. A nationwide push to bring magic mushrooms and other psychedelics into the mainstream is gaining traction, and some Californians want in. While hallucinogens are often associated with the drug culture of the 1960s, today’s movement on psychedelics is largely...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Grizzled farmworkers are the hot new commodity as community colleges try to reverse a years-long enrollment decline. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the “golden age” of higher education — where more and more adults were attending college every year — came to a halt, and California’s...
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Carmen González CalMatters Cuando Deysi Mojica recibió su aceptación en UC Riverside, estaba emocionada. No solo había superado la falta de recursos de su escuela secundaria para ayudar a los estudiantes indocumentados como ella a postularse para la universidad, sino que la universidad estaba ofreciendo un paquete de ayuda...
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Carmen González CalMatters When Deysi Mojica received her acceptance to UC Riverside, she was excited. Not only had she overcome her high school’s lack of resources to help undocumented students like herself apply to college, but the university was offering a financial aid package that would make her college...
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With Thanksgiving over, the holiday shopping season has the full attention of many Americans. But in Minnesota and elsewhere, people are being asked to be responsible when buying lottery tickets as gifts. The Minnesota Lottery and the Minnesota Alliance on Problem Gambling are again taking part in an annual campaign...