California
California cities, counties act to protect renters, homeowners, and unsheltered residents
March 27, 2020Housing organizations express appreciation to Newsom for the intent of his actions to date but said they fall far short of adequately addressing the crisis.
Read moreCalifornia governor issues statewide stay-at-home order to fight COVID-19
March 20, 2020As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in California continued to rise sharply, Governor Gavin Newsom on March 19 ordered the state’s 40 million residents to remain at home.
Read moreSanders won California, but there were also major down-ballot developments
March 6, 2020The presidential race wasn't the only show in town on Super Tuesday.
Read moreUnions gear up for big election among California child care providers
February 12, 2020This workforce of mostly women of color, isolated in their own day care centers, will finally be able to take care of themselves—and each other.
Read more‘The Dinner Party Before the Revolution’: Jim Smith’s radical West Coast poetry
December 12, 2019Jim Smith is not a “poet’s poet” writing primarily for his peers in the literary Parnassus. His poems have a rough-and-tumble, earthy, proletarian grittiness that’s not afraid to get its feet dirty.
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