September 24, 2021

Cities across California are turning to participatory budgeting as communities increasingly focus on economic justice, inequality and defunding the police. CapRadio’s News and Features Editor Pauline Bartolone joins Nicole and Nigel on this week’s episode to talk about participatory budgeting and how Vallejo became the first city in America to adopt the process in 2012. […]

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, September 24. Sequoias still under siege A dispatch from CalMatters environment reporter Julie Cart: In California, it’s possible to be hundreds of miles away from Hollywood and still find yourself in a place that looks for all the world like a movie set. Where better to illustrate the perils of […]

En resumen Los estudiantes del sistema de universidades UC de otros estados están teniendo un mal año. La Legislatura hizo planes para que la UC inscribiera a menos de ellos para dar paso a más estudiantes del estado. Mientras tanto, la matrícula aumentará $8,000 para futuros estudiantes que viene fuera del estado. Read this article […]

En resumen Los bomberos se preparan para lo peor, ya que los científicos predicen que el cambio climático podría causar más rayos, que lo acostumbrado y provocar incendios forestales letales, impredecibles y remotos en el norte de California. Read this article in English.    Los bomberos forestales admiten no tener mucho miedo, pero los relámpagos son un […]

Stable funding is needed to ensure California’s affordable housing efforts, climate goals and decarbonization policies work hand-in-hand.

Fire officials are bracing for the worst as scientists predict that climate change could cause more lightning strikes, which often ignite deadly, unpredictable and remote wildfires in Northern California.

Out-of-state UC students are having a bad year. The Legislature made plans to have the UC enroll fewer of them to make way for more in-state students. Meanwhile, tuition is going up $8,000 for future out-of-state students.

California needs to reexamine policies that prevent retired teachers from returning as substitutes within their first six months of retirement.