August 8, 2023

Read this story in English. En Los Ángeles es raro ver a actores de Hollywood y amas de casa de pie y hombro con hombro en los lugares de protesta, o a escritores de televisión detrás de los conductores de UPS luchando por mejores salarios.  Sin embargo, estos signos de solidaridad entre las clases sociales […]

How bad is California hunger? A lot depends on your access to food aid, which expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic but is being reduced.

Read this story in English. Renee Espinoza pensó que su primer registro sin ropa a manos de una oficial de la guardia correccional de California sería el último. Ocurrió durante una visita a la prisión estatal de Centinela para ver a su esposo encarcelado.  Unos meses después volvió a suceder. Y luego otra vez.  “Era […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make prisons a friendlier place for inmate families. An updated strip-search policy has some worried that families will face intrusive encounters during their visits.

Despite a court ruling that says local utility laws don't cover streaming services, several California cities are considering taxing the companies similar to cable. As TV broadcast groups lobby federal regulators for additional rule changes, tech advocates are concerned about the impact on consumers.

Showing solidarity with other social classes is a prominent union strategy in the so-called “hot labor summer” sweeping California. It’s too soon to say if the inter-union activity will get employers to bargain.

“A catastrophic hunger crisis.” That’s the dire warning from the California Association of Food Banks, after federal pandemic food aid ended earlier this spring.  But why does a state with so much food — California produces nearly half the country’s fruits and vegetables — and that spends so much on food aid have so many […]

If California Gov. Gavin Newsom debates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, expect the state's homelessness crisis to be a major point of conflict.