February 23, 2023

EN RESUMEN Sonya Christian, actual rectora del Kern Community College District, será la primera mujer nombrada rectora permanente y la primera persona de ascendencia sudasiática en dirigir el sistema de educación superior pública más grande del país. Read this article in English. El nuevo alto ejecutivo de los 116 colegios comunitarios de California será una […]

Sonya Christian, current chancellor of Kern Community College District, will be the first woman appointed as permanent chancellor and the first person of South Asian heritage to lead the nation’s largest system of public higher education.

EN RESUMEN California gasta más de $15 mil millones al año en su sistema penitenciario. Ahora, con la caída estrepitosa de la cantidad de personas tras las rejas, la administración de Newsom se está moviendo para cerrar más instituciones. Read this article in English. California solía necesitar muchas, pero muchas prisiones. Prisiones grandes, prisiones pequeñas, […]

California spends more than $15 billion a year on its prison system. Now, with the number of people behind bars plummeting, the Newsom administration is moving to shut down more institutions.

From affluent Riverside neighborhoods to disadvantaged communities in San Bernardino, the proliferation of warehouses across the Inland Empire is affecting everyone who calls this region home. Yet despite the increased pollution and risk of displacement near proposed sites, residents are struggling to be heard by their elected representatives.

In the first of an eight-part series, Anna Scott of KCRW takes listeners through the story of Veterans Row, a homeless encampment in Los Angeles.

Sacramento and Palo Alto offered up a tale of two California energy policies Wednesday as legislators considered the best way to stick it to Big Oil and Gov. Gavin Newsom talked up Tesla’s expansion plans. The two events reflected two contrasting — arguably, contradictory — policy imperatives that the state faces:  That was highlighted at […]