RCSD’s Chris Miller said the district is in a better position compared to this time two years ago when there were 352 vacancies. He credited the district’s downsizing.
ICE Detention: Where a day’s work might buy you a 14-minute phone call

One dollar a day. That’s how much immigrant detainees in GEO Group-run ICE facilities in Kern County earn scrubbing bathrooms and cutting hair, reports CalMatters’ Jeanne Kuang. Detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex ICE facilities told Kuang they started their second labor and hunger strike in two years to protest poor working […]
Police investigating fatal crash in Danby

ITHACA, N.Y. — One person was killed in a car crash that occurred Wednesday on Danby Road in Danby, according to the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office. As of Friday morning, […]
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Coming up on Environmental Connections: Friday, July 26, 2024
Here’s what’s coming up on “Environmental Connections” on Friday, July 26, 2024
Growing socialist party hosts event in Tucson to pitch Arizona’s independent, discontented voters

Leveling scathing criticisms at the country’s dominant political parties and hoping to inspire a mass grassroots movement, the vice presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Karina Garcia, spoke to a crowd of supporters in Tucson on Wednesday night. Standing in a midtown church before about 100 people, Garcia made her pitch to […]
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From drought to deluge, weather whipsaw frustrates NC farmers
NC counties in severe drought see relief, though problems persist. Heavy rains raise new concerns for farmers, with hurricane season ahead.
From drought to deluge, weather whipsaw frustrates NC farmers is a story from Carolina Public Press, an award-w…
Newsom: Clear California homeless encampments

Gov. Gavin Newsom is pressing for direct action, nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court gave cities the green light to clear homeless encampments and arrest or fine unhoused people for sleeping in public spaces. As CalMatters homelessness reporter Marisa Kendall explains, the governor on Thursday issued an executive order directing state agencies to […]
Deep-blue California is a piggy bank for Kamala Harris — and Donald Trump. How they’re trying to cash in

Kamala Harris is bringing back Democratic donors who soured on President Biden. Donald Trump is counting on V.P. pick JD Vance to raise money in Silicon Valley.
Newsom se fijó un ambicioso plan de crear 500,000 nuevas carreras para residentes de California y muchos de estos son bomberos

En su campaña de 2018, el gobernador Gavin Newsom dijo que crearía 500,000 nuevas plazas de aprendizaje en la década posterior a su toma de posesión. Hasta ahora, el estado ha registrado más de 180,000 nuevos aprendizajes. Muchos de ellos son bomberos.
As California cracks down on ‘junk fees’ it’s overlooking a major culprit: credit card companies

Guest Commentary written by Rodney Williams Rodney Williams is cofounder and president of SoLo Funds, a community lending platform based in Los Angeles. It commissioned the independently researched 2023 Cash Poor Report. Inflation may be slowing, but high prices continue to dash all hopes of saving money for Californians living paycheck to paycheck. Just this […]