California agriculture will have no silver bullets in a fight to survive global warming.
Gary Stewart’s passion for politics mirrored his love of music. His death rocked friends who remembered him as a deeply invested participant in whatever organization or cause he backed.
Borrowing tactics from the Occupy and labor movements, a coalition of faculty and anti-gentrification activists has set up a tent city outside the University of Southern California. Their proclaimed target: USC’s culture of greed and opaqueness.
Orlando Zepeda and Evelyn Hernandez are immigrant activists. Neither has a backup plan in case TPS isn’t renewed next year, other than “to keep fighting until we have permanent residency.”
Co-published by Truthout
Undocumented immigrants fear that seeking medical care will get them kicked out of the country. One woman’s story shows the impact can prove deadly.
Co-published by Fast Company
The ability to force the rich to pay their taxes is at least as monumental a challenge as the political project to increase taxes on the wealthy.
As affordable-housing agreements written 30 years ago begin to lapse, California is set to lose more than 34,000 affordable-rent units.
PFAS chemicals have been linked to numerous health problems, including cancer. And they’re increasingly being found in public drinking water systems.
Since the 2018 Dynamex decision was handed down by the California Supreme Court, strippers and erotic dancers have been at the center of an employment debate.
Gavin Newsom hailed a new charter school transparency law he signed. Why won’t the law prevent charters from failing?
Immigration activists and state agencies continue to put pressure on California’s ICE facilities.
Co-published by Fast Company
Why is the starting team of one of the most multicultural cities so vanilla?
Why Los Angeles researchers are looking differently at Skid Row.
Co-published by the American Prospect
Diseases don’t respect borders, nor do they care about passports, citizenship or residency.
Developers blame a half-century-old law for slowing development. Studies show there are other factors at work.
Financial assurance flaws leave taxpayers potentially liable for massive clean-up costs.
Wealthy parents caught gaming the system. Eli Broad spends on privatization. The price of each vote for L.A. school board race.
State investigations raise concerns about human rights abuses in federal detention facilities.
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As cities struggle to rein in the short-term rental service, a detente in San Francisco may show the way.
Co-published by The Guardian
Love and energy aren’t always enough to provide what Allensworth, a historic African-American town, needs most: clean water, accessible to all.