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New Report Gives CSU System a Failing Grade on Handling Sexual Harrasment

New Report Gives CSU System a Failing Grade on Handling Sexual Harrasment

California State University must hire many more employees and overhaul huge portions of its bureaucracy to keep students and staff safe from...

12 months ago

Berkeley Student With College Loans Doesn’t Want Her Debt Forgiven. Here’s Why

I have $7,248 in student loans but I’m not disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s attempt to forgive student deb...

12 months ago

Hate Crimes Are Increasing in California. The State Is Hoping a Hotline Can Help

Five years ago, Robin Toma, executive director of Los Angeles County’s Commission on Human Relations, was alarmed after reading the county’s...

12 months ago

California Leaders Made Promises After Planada Flooded. They Need to Keep Them

Planada has been my home for 58 years. I’ve worked many different jobs, particularly in agriculture – as do many of the hard-working folks w...

1 year ago

Is Housing a Human Right? California Voters Could Decide

Lea este artículo en español. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and … housing? Marisa Kendall CalMatters California lawmakers are tr...

1 year ago

A Catastrophic Hunger Crisis? California Food Banks Are Being Flooded by Families Seeking Help

Every two weeks, cars line up at The Hill Church in Vallejo for a drive-thru food distribution. While Whitney Houston songs play over a spea...

1 year ago

Why the ‘Science of Reading’ May Be the Next Dyslexia Battleground

State lawmakers plan to require that all students be tested for dyslexia and other reading challenges, but the hurdles ahead point to a bigg...

1 year ago

Who Buys Electric Cars in California—and Who Doesn’t?

Lea este artículo en español. In Atherton, one of the nation’s richest towns, giant oaks and well-manicured hedges surround gated mansions o...

1 year ago

Water rushes out of Northern California's Oroville spillway on Feb. 17, 2023. (DWR)

It’s Raining Now, but How Can California Boost Its Water Supply Later?

Lea este artículo en español. Over and over again, drought launches California into a familiar scramble to provide enough water. Rachel Bec...

1 year ago

CSU Schools on Notice: Enroll More Students or Lose Money

The California State University system is putting campuses on notice: Enroll more students or lose money. It’s a stunning reversal of fortun...

1 year ago

9 months ago

Humanitarian Aid Is Stuck at Gaza-Egypt Border as Israeli Siege Strains Hospitals

9 months ago

Suzanne Somers, of ‘Three’s Company,’ Dies a Day Before 77th Birthday

9 months ago

Hunter Biden Investigations Lead to Ethical Concerns About President Biden, an AP-NORC Poll Shows

9 months ago

Pharmacy Chain With Locations Across Fresno Files for Bankruptcy

9 months ago

California’s Widening Housing Gap Defies State Efforts to Jump-Start Construction

9 months ago

Israeli Shelling on Lebanon Border Kills Reuters Journalist, Wounds 6

9 months ago

The Geography of Conflict: Understanding the Israeli Communities Along the Gaza Border

9 months ago

What’s Out in the Universe? NASA’s Amber Straughn Will Tell Us in Town Hall Opener

9 months ago

Valley Agricultural Innovators Honored with the CALF 2023 Profiles in Leadership Award

9 months ago

Obama to Israelis in 2013: Put Yourselves in Palestinians’ Shoes

9 months ago

Death Row Inmate Who Murdered Merced Police Officer Back in Court, Says His ‘Rights Violated’

9 months ago

Republicans Pick Jim Jordan as Nominee for House Speaker, Putting Job Within the Trump Ally’s Reach

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