The Eviction Moratorium Has Expired, Will Palo Alto Leaders Decide to Act?
byNearly three-fourths of households in Palo Alto that earn between $50,000 and $79,000 annually are rent-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on rent.
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Huge ships wait in line in southern California. Why don’t they call at the Bay Area?
byPort of Oakland bar pilots say the number of ships that are calling in the Bay Area are at a low. They’re hoping the situation will change in the coming weeks — by convincing more cargo ships to head to Northern California.
Unprecedented Texas Senate Bill 8 rattles Bay Area’s pro-choice activists
byThe marches against Texas SB 8 held in San Francisco and San Jose were among 600 events that took place throughout the United States on Oct. 2, 2021.
COVID-19, other threats continue to hit California farmworkers
byFarmworker Caravan delivers nonperishable foods and household essentials to Santa Clara, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito and San Luis Obispo Counties, where local organizations distribute the items to more than 500 farmworker families once a month.
Protest in San Francisco criticizes treatment of Haitian migrants at Mexico-U.S. border
byProtesters in San Francisco rallied against the treatment of Haitians seeking safety at the United States’ borders.
Indigenous groups demand shut down of Michigan pipeline
byA pipeline stretching across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan has been thrust back into the spotlight after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered a shutdown of the line that the oil company refused, resulting in a high-profile legal dispute between the state and the oil company.
‘A recipe for disaster’: The pandemic’s toll on working parents
bySince the beginning of the pandemic, California’s job market has lost the largest percentage of parents of school children in the country, trailing only Nevada and Michigan, an analysis of U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey data shows.
Living with wildfire: A story of reconstruction and resiliency at Rancho Mariposa
byFor the Monroes and countless other families living in California’s ever-widening fire zones, the question is not whether they’ll stay, but how.
The Guardian of the Matriarch: A wildlife photographer’s fight to protect the world’s most famous bear
byThomas Mangelsen’s personal and professional legacy is inseparable from his love of Grizzly 399. As one of the first people to set eyes on the bear 14 years before, he documented her life history as she pioneered the return of grizzlies to the southern reaches of the Greater Yellowstone.
Bakersfield Police Broke 31 People’s Bones in Four Years. No Officer Has Been Disciplined for It.
byUsing batons, police caused fractures in some Bakersfield residents accused of serious crimes, and others who were never charged, or had charges dismissed.
The GOP’s best bet to accelerate gains with Latinos? It may be more Trumpism
byTrump not only fared better with Latino voters in 2020 than he did in 2016, he also fared better than Romney did in 2012. Experts say two specific issues, the COVID lockdowns and the ‘defund the police’ movement, may have fueled the Latino shift.
The ocean is the school: How Pacific Islanders transform higher-education
byMeet Pacific Islanders who are transforming higher education and advancing the field of Critical Pacific Islands and Oceania Studies, driven by the belief that the Ocean is the school.