by Ngakiya Camara | Feb 7, 2026 | Affordable Housing, bay area, California, Displacement, Homelessness, housing, News Analysis, San Jose, Super Bowl, unhoused
Tens of thousands of football fans are expected to flood the Bay Area for Super Bowl LX to witness the highly anticipated match between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, where the National Football League championship will be held for the second time in a decade. A series of fan-facing events in San Francisco promises to attract a majority…
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by Christine Mai-Duc | Jan 7, 2026 | California, health care, Insurance, Medicaid, New Mexico, News Analysis, One Big Beautiful Bill Act
In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California’s Placer County provided limited health care to some 3,400 uninsured residents who couldn’t afford to see a doctor. For several years, that number has been zero in the predominantly white, largely rural county stretching from Sacramento’s eastern suburbs to the shores of Lake Tahoe.
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by Farshid Vahedifard | Dec 29, 2025 | California, Floods, levees, News, river storms
In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across Washington, Oregon and California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple levees – those long, often unnoticed barriers holding floodwaters back from homes and towns. Most of the time, levees don’t demand attention. They quietly do their job, year after year.
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by Victoria Law | Dec 25, 2025 | California, clemency, commutation, Gavin Newsom, Incarceration, News, Prisons, Restorative Justice
Tien Mo is still awaiting a response to her 2017 clemency application. As previously reported in Truthout, at age 20, she was sentenced to life without parole in her classmate’s death. As the years pass, the 44-year-old’s hopes dwindle. Now, a proposed statute gives her renewed optimism. Clemency typically takes two forms — a pardon, which removes the consequences of a criminal conviction…
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by Victoria Law | Dec 20, 2025 | California, FCI Dublin, ICE, Immigrant Detention, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Migrant Jails, News, Organizing, Prisons, Resistance
On December 16, 2025, the Dublin City Council in California unanimously passed a resolution formally opposing reopening or reusing the notorious FCI Dublin prison for detention of any kind, including as an immigration jail. The resolution also urged the relevant federal agencies to “engage in open and transparent communication with the City regarding any decisions affecting the site.
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by Jonathan Shorman | Dec 19, 2025 | Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Justice (DOJ), DHS, doj, elections, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, News, SAVE Act, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Trump Administration, US Department of Justice, Utah, Virginia, voter roll purges, Voter Rolls, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights, Wisconsin, Wyoming
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls. The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major role in election administration…
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