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Migrant Students Work in Fields During COVID School Closures | CalMatters
Migrant Students Work in Fields During COVID School Closures | CalMatters
Sisters Maria and Jennifer Salvador start their days before the sun. The Southern California teenagers report to work at an Oxnard strawberry farm with one goal: To harvest as many bright red strawber ...
14 Aug, 2020
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8 min read
Want to Vote By Mail? Anti-Corruption Group Launches Resource to Counter Disinformation and Confusion
Want to Vote By Mail? Anti-Corruption Group Launches Resource to Counter Disinformation and Confusion
FLORENCE, MASS. - Elections officials in the US are expecting a surge in absentee votes in the 2020 election as the US continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. To provide voters with the resource ...
13 Aug, 2020
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2 min read
Today’s Grapes of Wrath Descendants: The Insecure Future is Now
Today’s Grapes of Wrath Descendants: The Insecure Future is Now
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and film by the same name, “The Grapes of Wrath,” is co ...
13 Aug, 2020
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4 min read
Nonpartisan Reformers Are Ready for Another Historic Year
Nonpartisan Reformers Are Ready for Another Historic Year
With under 3 months until election day, enthusiasm for nonpartisan election reform has hit monumental levels. NANR members are on track to make 2020 another historic year for reform.That’s why NANR is ...
13 Aug, 2020
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5 min read
What California Knows About Kamala Harris
What California Knows About Kamala Harris
More than any other vice presidential contender in a generation, Kamala Harris’ biography is singularly Californian. Born and bussed to school in Berkeley, tested by San Francisco’s cut-throat municip ...
12 Aug, 2020
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17 min read
Should the State Investigate Local Police Shootings? California Rethinks its Resistance
Should the State Investigate Local Police Shootings? California Rethinks its Resistance
If officers shot and killed Sean Monterrosa in Connecticut or New York — instead of in Vallejo, California — a state agency would investigate the June 2 incident, when a police officer reportedly mist ...
11 Aug, 2020
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13 min read
Side Hustles, Liquidating 401(k)s: Here’s How Jobless Californians Are Getting by Without the Extra $600
Side Hustles, Liquidating 401(k)s: Here’s How Jobless Californians Are Getting by Without the Extra $600
Since the federal weekly $600 boost expired last month, unemployed Californians have been living on impossibly low budgets — and expect to do so in the coming months even if President Trump’s weekend ...
11 Aug, 2020
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7 min read
Being in Bensonhurst: Remembrance. Resistance. Reality.
Being in Bensonhurst: Remembrance. Resistance. Reality.
I.The marches in Bensonhurst are a distant memory for me. They were 30 years ago. I don’t recall many of the specifics, the details. We rode on busses to the Slave Theatre in Brooklyn and congregated ...
11 Aug, 2020
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9 min read
The 18th-Century Reason Biden's VP Pick Should Be a Night Owl
The 18th-Century Reason Biden's VP Pick Should Be a Night Owl
If Joe Biden were to ask the framers of the constitution what qualities he should look for in a running mate, they might single out one in particular: a love of lucubration.  It literally means w ...
06 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
The Way We Conduct Primaries is a Problem, and These Campaigns Aim to Fix It
The Way We Conduct Primaries is a Problem, and These Campaigns Aim to Fix It
There is growing consensus among pro-voter reformers that when we discuss comprehensive solutions to provide voters with better elections, primary election reform has to be a part of the conversation. ...
04 Aug, 2020
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6 min read