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Category: Local Issues

Posted inLocal Issues

A $3 Million Question: After a 3-2 Palm Springs City Council Vote to Fully Fund the New Downtown Park, Local Business Organizations Strenuously Object

by Kevin Fitzgerald August 24th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

Assisting the Essential: Lawmakers and Medical Professionals Scramble to Help the Coachella Valley’s Farmworkers Deal With the Pandemic

by Kevin Fitzgerald August 20th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

A Moratorium That Misses: Thousands of Californians Have Been Evicted From Their Rented Homes During the Pandemic

by Matt Levin, Nigel Duara and Erica Yee, CalMatters August 11th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

DREAMers’ Dilemma: Immigrant-Rights Advocates Express Frustration as the Trump Administration Refuses DACA Applications Despite a Supreme Court Ruling

by Kevin Fitzgerald August 4th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

Parent Teachers: Californians Struggle to Educate Their Kids as Schools Remain Closed Due to the Pandemic

by Ricardo Cano and Lauren Hepler, CalMatters July 27th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

Dying-With-Dignity Dilemma: California’s End of Life Option Act Is Being Used More Than Ever—but Not By the State’s Majority-Minority Communities

by Kevin Fitzgerald July 9th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

‘An Issue of Belonging’: Desert Healthcare District CEO Dr. Conrado Barzaga Says Racism Is a Public Health Crisis—as Shown by the Killing of Black Americans, COVID-19

by Kevin Fitzgerald July 7th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

College Reconstructed: UC Students Get Ready for a Mostly Online, Socially Distanced Fall Semester

by Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters June 26th, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

‘A Civil Rights Issue’: Thousands of Local Students Lack Proper Internet Access—Which Makes Distance Learning All but Impossible

by Kevin Fitzgerald June 22nd, 2020December 16th, 2020
Posted inLocal Issues

‘We’re Tired of This; We Need to Change’: Areli Galvez Says the Young Justice Advocates Organized a Palm Springs Rally to Forge Unity in the Valley

by Jimmy Boegle June 17th, 2020December 16th, 2020

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