By Sameea Kamal Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Frustration came through loud and clear as legislators hurled question after question at the head of the state’s homelessness interagency council: Why, after years of planning and billions of dollars […]
Posted inCalifornia, Health, Opinion
California has helped fund diaper banks for years. Families need that support to continue
By Hiram Rodriguez-Franco Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Guest Commentary written by Hiram Rodriguez-Franco Hiram Rodriguez-Franco is the diaper bank manager for Community Action Partnership of Orange County. Our government and its policies should reflect the values of […]
Posted inCalifornia, State
Potential tough-on-crime ballot measure promises less homelessness. Experts aren’t convinced
By Marisa Kendall and Yue Stella Yu Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Homelessness gets top billing in a measure likely to make it onto your November ballot. Whether the measure has anything to do with homelessness is debatable. […]
Posted inCalifornia, Education, Labor
Why UC grad students are going out on strike
By Mikhail Zinshteyn Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of […]
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In Defense of Increments
By Paul S. DiLorenzo The Lakota historian Joseph Marshall III said that “success is rarely the result of one fell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.” The notion of one day at a time never meant much to me, until it did. Get today right. Learn from your mistakes, as […]
Posted inBay Area, Economy
San Jose food hall has rocky start
By Robert Eliason People driving by San Jose’s Downtown Food Hall might be forgiven for thinking it’s closed. The dark interior seems to be housing abandoned equipment. Next to a locked door directly under the building’s marquee, an “open” sign is turned off. The real entrance is three windows down, under an incongruous green and […]
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‘Imagine …’ That, Local Orchestra Teacher Dons Composer Hat
By Richard Montenegro Brown FRANCISCO OROZCO VIDEO EL CENTRO — Matthew Busse’s love affair with music may well have taken hold the moment he sat in a darkened movie theater and witnessed the yellow text of “Star Wars” crawl upward on a movie screen alongside John Williams’ triumphant score. One day, after having watched the […]
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Calexico Council All ‘Heart’ with Firefighters in Moving ARPA Funds
By Richard Montenegro Brown CALEXICO — Having experienced abnormal heart rhythms himself, Calexico fire Engineer Oscar Pesqueda advocated for his union to get the funding to equip his firehouse with an emergency alarm system with “heartsaver tones.” “I was one of the ones that was treated for tachycardia. But I’ve been doing it for 25 […]
Posted inCalifornia, Sports
IVC Girls Hoops’ Anderson to Play for Missouri Baptist
By Richard Montenegro Brown HOLTVILLE — Imperial Valley College graduate and Desert Warrior basketball player Orian Anderson has signed her letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic career at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri. “Her maturity. Her leadership. Her passion more than anything, you know, is what got her to be […]
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Minnesota Governor Expected To Sign Bill Raising Bar for Taking ‘African American or Disproportionately Represented’ Children Into Foster Care
If signed into law, the legislation would be one of the first in the nation, creating far more stringent requirements to avoid foster care removals and reunify families. By Alex Perez and Michael Fitzgerald Minnesota state Rep. Esther Agbaje, seen here in 2020, authored the African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act. Photo […]
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