Tag: News

By Chris Nichols, Capital Public Radio/CALmatters Toy cars are scattered across the floor in Marie Camacho’s small one-bedroom apartment in Sacramento. Photos of her 4-year-old boy, Julian, line the walls. The 32-year-old single mom juggles two part-time jobs, but she can’t stand to be away from her son. “He likes being around his mom,” said […]

By Nico Savidge, EdSource More than 1.3 million low- and middle-income students attend California’s public colleges and universities each year without having to pay tuition, thanks to financial aid programs in each of the state’s higher education systems that cover those bills. A California law that allows for a free first year of tuition at […]

By Elizabeth Castillo, CALmatters As the food court at a Sacramento mall buzzed with families on a recent summer day, Emily Wickelgren and her daughter Thea were enjoying lunch at Subway. The 7-year-old opted for water with her sandwich instead of soda or juice. “I do have unusual kids in that neither one of them […]

By Tonya Mosley, KQED News Fix Caroline Camhy didn’t have a plan the night she decided to grab a lawn chair and sit along the Caltrain tracks near her home. It was Oct. 20, 2009, and all she knew was that teenagers were killing themselves, and she had to do something. “At that point I […]

By Zach St. George, Bay Nature On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy washed into the eastern United States. The storm killed 191 people, razed much of the Jersey Shore, flooded part of Lower Manhattan, and damaged or destroyed 600,000 homes. All told, it caused something like $65 billion in damage and economic loss. Sea level […]

By Matt Levin, CALmatters When the California Housing Finance Agency was created in 1975 in Gov. Jerry Brown’s first term, the mission was simple: help low- and moderate-income families buy their first home. More than 40 years later, amid skyrocketing housing prices and near-record low homeownership rates, that goal is getting harder and harder to […]

By David Gorn, CALmatters Rob Lyman of Redwood City didn’t know what to do. He was helping his aunt, Sharron Evans, who had early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and needed constant supervision. A former teacher, she had run out of money and had no income. She qualified for government health care assistance, but it appeared she would […]

By Katie Orr, KQED News/The California Report A potential expansion to California’s Proposition 13 would likely mean increased home sales and higher revenues for realtors. But there’s disagreement on how the measure could affect the state’s finances. Proposition 13 limits annual property tax increases on California homes. Since voters passed the proposition in 1978, the […]

By KQED News Staff and Wires, KQED News/The California Report Your ability to watch and use your favorite apps and services could start to change — though not right away — following the official demise Monday of Obama-era internet protections. Any changes are likely to happen slowly, as companies assess how much consumers will tolerate. […]

By Vanessa Rancaño, KALW/Crosscurrents Sadia Kahn ended up at UC Berkeley because of a look her dad gave her. When she was in middle school, she told him she wanted to go to Berkeley because she had noticed adults perked up when they heard the word, but in this case it backfired. “He had the […]