California
Students will no longer need to wear masks in schools after next Friday, 3/11, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced yesterday, 2/28…
Decades of underinvestment in schools, culture battles over bilingual education, and dizzying levels of income inequality have made California the least literate state in the nation…
San Francisco’s dedicated homelessness department, created in 2016, has an annual budget of $598 million - a sum that has more than tripled in its short existence…
California's first-in-the nation reparations task force was poised to answer the question of who should be eligible for reparations last month, on 2/24, but instead delayed the historic vote until March…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein‘s husband Richard Blum died on Sunday after a protracted fight with cancer, the California senator announced yesterday, 2/28…
The federal government announced initial 2022 water allocations last week for customers of the Central Valley Project, and the figures were dismal: Most irrigation districts in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys can expect to receive no deliveries from the project’s vast network of reservoirs and canals…
Coronavirus
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eased mask recommendations for the vast majority of the country Friday, 2/25, under a new framework to monitor COVID-19 that immediately affects about 70 percent of Americans - a process that state and local officials had already begun amid demands for a return to normalcy…
A National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (Australia) study of children infected by COVID-19 in New South Wales between 10/18 and 12/17 "produced ‘reassuring data’ that suggests the majority of cases in children were contracted at home”…
An analysis found that between the end of November and last week, the U.S. reported over 30 million new COVID-19 cases and over 154,000 new deaths, compared with 11 million cases and 132,000 deaths from 8/1 through 10/31…
A flurry of new studies finds that people who have received a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine may not need another for many months, and perhaps not for years…
A new study estimates that at least 5.2 million children around the world lost a parent or other caregiver to COVID-19 in the first 19 months of the pandemic…