Covid-19

Facing the triple threat of wildfire season, severe drought and a likely recall election, Gov. Gavin Newsom is undoubtedly hoping that California will be able to avoid rolling blackouts this year after last summer’s heat wave triggered the first outages in nearly two decades. But while the president of California’s electric grid operator expressed “guarded […]

More California colleges are planning to require students to get COVID-19 vaccinations. For international students, that often means only vaccines approved by the World Health Organization will be accepted, even though not all students have access to those.

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, May 5. Elections and bears, oh my If, like me, you didn’t have “California political candidate campaigns with 1,000-pound Kodiak bear” on your 2021 bingo card, you were not prepared for the excesses of a gubernatorial recall election. The effort to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom from office entered a new […]

As harvest season approached, growers begged county officials to vaccinate their workers. But the state and counties didn’t prioritize vaccine doses for farmworkers in February. So the growers and doctors stepped in and set up their own clinics.

A medida que se acercaba la temporada de cosecha, los productores rogaron a los funcionarios del condado que vacunaran a sus trabajadores. Pero el estado y los condados no dieron prioridad a las dosis de vacunas para los trabajadores agrícolas en febrero. Entonces, los productores y los médicos intervinieron y establecieron sus propias clínicas.

Con el gobernador listo para presentar su propuesta de presupuesto revisada, lo instamos a recordar que ahora es el momento de ser práctico.

Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, May 4. An incomplete story Even as California appears to be nearing the end of the pandemic, many gaps remain in our knowledge about the past year’s events — raising questions as to the state’s preparedness for potential future disasters. Today — with record-low hospitalizations, a 1.1% positivity rate and […]

While the governor's opponents have burned through most of the money they've collected to date, his defenders have some $2.5 million in the bank.

Although California has an eviction moratorium in place, saving millions from losing their homes, this protection ends in June.

Aunque California tiene una moratoria de desalojo, que evita que millones de personas pierdan sus hogares, esta protección termina en junio.