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Families Fight Restricted Access To Loved Ones In CA Long-Term Care
Families and nursing home watchdogs in CA are urging the state to allow in at least one “essential caregiver" to watch over loved ones.
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CA Students Can Learn During School Closures, But New Approach Needed For Distance Learning
COMMENTARY: Distance learning will never be as good as in-person learning, but we can do a lot better.
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CA Must Implement Policies For Tracking, Controlling Health Care Costs And Price Increases (Opinion)
COMMENTARY: Even before the onset of COVID-19, the cost of health care was becoming a public health crisis of its own.
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California Appeals Court Makes Tax Increases Easier
The March primary election was rough on advocates of new taxes.
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CA Must Invest In A Contact Tracing Workforce Led By People Of Color (Opinion)
COMMENTARY: Given its rich cultural diversity, CA needs contact tracers that are able to speak with patients in their native language.
Los Angeles, CA|News|
California Needs A Public Bank To Help Economy Recover From COVID-19 (Opinion)
COMMENTARY – A bold plan to help CA local communities: Establish a public bank that would provide economic recovery loans to businesses.
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How The Pandemic Is Changing Working From Home In CA
Coronavirus has reshaped how Californians live, learn and work in uneven ways.
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COVID-19 Clobbers Weak CA Transit Systems
California transit systems were struggling even before COVID-19, with stagnant ridership and soaring costs. Now they're facing a crisis.
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Lawmakers Should Reject One-Size-Fits-All Approach To Disposing Organic Waste (Opinion)
COMMENTARY: For years, we have been able to recycle these organic materials in a way that is inexpensive for us & good for the environment.
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Feds To Send Covid Tests To Nursing Homes, But Can California Really Use Them?
Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government this week announced it would send COVID-19 rapid testing kits.
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Here Are Four Priorities For State’s New Strategic Plan For Suicide Prevention
COVID-19 has upended life as we know it, shuttering businesses, devastating families and fracturing communities.
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The CA Seniors Left Behind By A Telehealth Tech Divide
Doctors increasingly use telehealth as the safest, most effective means of caregiving. It’s a luxury that low-income seniors don't have.
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Can Declining Real Estate Demand Help California’s Housing Crisis?
A decline in commercial real estate demand could represent an opportunity to reallocate portions toward more affordable housing.
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High Living Costs Make Californians Poor
There’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe recession it spawned are widening California’s economic divide.
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California’s Looming Wildfire Threat Requires A Cleaner, More Resilient Electrical Grid (Opinion)
COMMENTARY: Another inevitable crisis that also requires aggressive preventative action looms: wildfire season.
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California Tests At-Home Schooling
California’s six million public school students will be staying, and presumably studying, at home this fall.
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A Focus On Injustice, Inequity In Public Education Must Drive California’s Budget Priorities (Opinion)
COMMENTARY: The past months have been a time of exceptional change and challenge for Green Dot Public Schools.
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How Covid Is Deepening California’s Income Inequality In 5 Charts
The decade dawned on a California that was both “the richest and poorest” state in the nation, in the words of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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How CA Seized Control Of 2 Troubled Nursing Homes As COVID-19 Loomed
Once a rarity, state takeovers of on-the-edge nursing homes are expected to become more common as the pandemic tips facilities into chaos.
