Oakland’s Progressive DA Just Wants to Do Her Job. In an Age of Recalls, That Job Is Changing.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Almost as soon as I get into the car, District Attorney Pamela Price makes it clear that she doesn’t want to talk to me, or at the very least she doesn’t have time to. “I have to get some…
California Lawmakers Want to Invest Billions in Housing—by Diverting Mental Health Funds
Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Time / Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 5, Californians will vote on Proposition 1. The ballot measure, if passed, will allow the state to divert funds raised for non-coercive mental health care to housing and…
California Needs to Keep Funding Sickle Cell Care. Will It?
Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Sickle cell disease, a group of rare genetic disorders characterized by abnormal hemoglobin, can be very painful, cause reduced life expectancy, and involve complications like severe anemia. Research and treatment for…
Excessive Heat and Air Pollution Are Putting Farmworkers’ Lives at Risk
Gosia Wozniacka/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers like William Salas Jiminez labored under the sun’s searing rays. Temperatures had dipped from 99 to 95 degrees…
Scores of Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat
Gosia Wozniacka/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For most of July 2019, stifling heat hung over the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, as farmworkers like William Salas Jiminez labored under the sun’s searing rays. Temperatures had dipped from 99 to 95 degrees…
Gavin Newsom Vetoed a Bill to Make Condoms Available at Schools
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A California bill requiring public high schools to provide condoms to their students didn’t make it past Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk this week. The bill, SB 541, would have required schools to place condoms in at least two easily…