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Manuela Tobias CalMatters Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents...
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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 —...
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Kristen Hwang & Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters El anuncio sorpresa del gobernador Gavin Newsom a través de Twitter el lunes de que California no haría negocios con el gigante farmacéutico Walgreens causó una confusión generalizada en un estado donde más de un tercio de la población paga las recetas con un...
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Kristen Hwang & Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom’s surprise announcement via Twitter this week that California would not do business with pharmacy giant Walgreens caused widespread confusion in a state where more than one-third of the population pays for prescriptions with government-funded health insurance. Walgreens confirmed last week it would...
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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...
Manuela Tobias CalMatters Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents...
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 —...
Kristen Hwang & Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters El anuncio sorpresa del gobernador Gavin Newsom a través de Twitter el lunes de que California no haría negocios con el gigante farmacéutico Walgreens causó una confusión generalizada en un estado donde más de un tercio de la población paga las recetas con un...
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...
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...
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...
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...