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Sameea Kamal CalMatters President Biden signed a law banning nearly 4 million federal employees from having TikTok on their government phones, over national security concerns. This week, New Jersey and Ohio joined at least 20 other states in restricting access to TikTok, amid fears that the Chinese government could use the app...
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President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jan. 10 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. The meeting focused heavily on immigration. In this interview, Ariel Ruiz Soto, policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute discusses the summit, and significant policy changes...
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In a significant course change, the California Department of Health Care Services announced that it has negotiated with five commercial health plans to provide Medi-Cal services in 2024, scratching a two-year-long bidding process for the coveted state contracts. This upends the state’s previous plans of awarding contracts to only...
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Joe Hong CalMatters Los estudiantes de quinto grado de Roxanne Grago en la escuela primaria Lake Marie deben poder leer una historia corta, analizarla y respaldar sus análisis con ejemplos del texto. Pero Grago dijo que durante el cierre de escuelas y otras interrupciones de la era de la...
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Joe Hong CalMatters Roxanne Grago’s fifth-grade students at Lake Marie Elementary should be able to read a short story, analyze it, and support their analyses with examples from the text. But Grago said that during school closures and other pandemic-era disruptions, students fell behind academically. Today, they struggle to...
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Ariel Gans & Sameea Kamal CalMatters Antes del día de las elecciones, los grupos de defensa predijeron, o al menos esperaban, que los votantes de California elegirían un número récord de mujeres y personas LGBTQ para la Legislatura. Con base en los resultados hasta el momento , parece que se hará...
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Ariel Gans & Sameea Kamal CalMatters Leading up to Election Day, advocacy groups were predicting — or at least hoping — that California voters would elect record numbers of women and LGBTQ people to the Legislature. Based on the results so far, it appears that history will be made —...
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If nothing excites your taste buds more than Latin-inspired dishes, you’re in luck. Vianney Rodriguez, founder of Sweet Life, and Marisol Chancellor, founder of Marisol Cooks, have created new recipes for entertaining family and friends, along with tried-and-true entertaining tips. Created in partnership with Real California Milk, representing the...
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Sameea Kamal & Ariel Gans CalMatters ¿Un regalo o una maldición? Para Angelique Ashby, postularse como “defensora de las mujeres” en una acalorada carrera por el Senado estatal en Sacramento podría ser un poco de ambos. Su competidor, Dave Jones, un colega demócrata, acudió a los tribunales para impedir...