By Sergio Olmos Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. As California Highway Patrol officers in riot gear dispersed pro-Palestinian protests at UCLA on May 2, they regularly aimed or fired their less-lethal weapons at protesters in ways that appear […]
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Campbell development will add dozens of homes
By Annalise Freimarck A cranny of Campbell is slated for demolition to make way for a larger housing project, leaving some residents and businesses unsure if they will be able to stay in the West Valley city. The Campbell City Council earlier this month unanimously approved a unique housing development that includes 25 townhomes, 10 […]
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Bramson: Groundhog Day in San Jose
By Ray Bramson It’s Groundhog Day all over again with the proposed 2024 San Jose budget. Yes, it’s true that there’s a different driving narrative this time around, but the answer is still the same: slash all affordable housing funding. Apparently, drastic disinvestment in one of our most important and needed assets is the route […]
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Advocates want a say in choosing San Jose police chief
By Brandon Pho San Jose leaders could select a new police chief by September. But before they do, some advocates are urging them to speak with families who lost loved ones to police shootings. The city has mounted a monthslong public outreach effort to replace former Chief Anthony Mata. The City Manager’s Office met with a consortium […]
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Rhode Island Public Officials’ Solutions to Abuse in Residential Treatment Centers: Dumb and Dumber
By Richard Wexler Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s a scandal involving horrific abuse at a residential treatment center. No, not the one in Arizona, or the one in Kentucky, or the one in Tennessee, or Indiana, or Utah, or Oklahoma, or Washington state or Arkansas, or Connecticut or — well, […]
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CA budget woes are hitting hard
By Lynn La Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Gov. Newsom addresses the media during a press conference unveiling his revised 2024-25 budget proposal at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 10, 2024. Photo by Fred […]
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Should California be able to require sobriety in homeless housing?
By Marisa Kendall Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Desperate for a way to help the tens of thousands of people living in tents, cars and RVs on California’s streets, lawmakers are attempting to upend a key tenet of […]
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How Vietnamese lawmakers struck back when L.A. County declared Jane Fonda Day
By Ryan Sabalow Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. As Saigon was falling, Janet Nguyen’s uncle – an officer in the South Vietnamese Army – was taken before his village and executed. After the city fell on April 30, […]
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Santa Clara County struggles to improve internet in underserved areas
By Brandon Pho County officials want to provide broadband internet service in underserved neighborhoods, contrary to a long-awaited report that dismisses the idea. The digital equity study, which they commissioned two years ago, warned the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors against the steep cost of building an underground fiber network and instead suggested partnering […]
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Publisher Brenda Torres is the Mother Behind the Fine Print
By Richard Montenegro Brown EL CENTRO — Few people know that the woman behind Imperial County’s two oldest weekly newspapers — the more than century-old Calexico Chronicle and Holtville Tribune — is a single mother who likes to keep her head down while lifting up others. Humble through and through, Publisher Brenda Torres, a native […]
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