December 26, 2023

Read this story in English. Días antes de Navidad, María Vela se despedía del estrecho apartamento de una habitación en el este de Los Ángeles que ha sido el telón de fondo de la vida de su familia durante los últimos 30 años.  Vela miró la foto de su boda colgada en la sala de […]

Successive state audits of the University of California and the California State University found both systems have failed to comply with decades old state and federal laws mandating the return of Native ancestral remains and cultural artifacts, an act known as repatriation. Only UCLA and Cal State Long Beach have returned a majority of their collections back to local tribes.

California's utility regulators are considering a fiber-only strategy to close the state's digital divide, but fiber can be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to deploy. Newer generations of fixed wireless offer a promising alternative.

María Vela’s family has lived in East L.A. nearly 30 years, but new owners of her duplex asked her family to vacate by Christmas. Most evictions are due to nonpayment of rent, but owner move-ins also cause family displacement.