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Will Rollins flip California’s newly redistricted CD 41?

August 16, 2022 By Eric A. Gordon

Republican Ken Calvert, 69, the incumbent U.S. Representative from the former 42nd District, is running for reelection to his 16th term in the newly reconfigured Congressional District 41.

Rural California caregivers fight for fair contract

August 15, 2022 By Henry Millstein

They serve low income consumers, largely seniors who literally would not survive without their help.

Kaiser mental health clinicians to start open-ended strike Aug. 15

August 12, 2022 By Marilyn Bechtel

“As clinicians, we have made proposal after proposal to Kaiser for greater investment in timely care for patients, and Kaiser has rejected all of them. Now, we have no other option but to strike.”

California’s longest serving death-row prisoner on pain and Native identity

August 1, 2022 By Special to People’s World

As the Monache and Cherokee 63-year-old awaits a new hearing for a 1978 murder he denies committing, Douglas Ray Stankewitz shares the cultural tools and memories he depends on to stay alive.

Life of the party: Portrait of L.A.’s perpetual progressive Jan Goodman

August 1, 2022 By Ed Rampell

In The Tempest, Shakespeare mused “What’s past is prologue,” which is certainly true for Jan Goodman, whose radical roots set the stage for a lifetime of activism.