For Berkeley day laborers with bills and fears, staying home is not an option |
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Photo by Ximena Natera for Berkeleyside/CatchLight Local |
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Day laborers, jornaleros in Spanish, have breakfast at the Multicultural Institute on Feb. 14, 2025. |
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Soaring housing costs make life even more challenging for Oakland’s unaccompanied minors |
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Photo by Hiram Durán for El Timpano/CatchLight Local |
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Left: A letter Jorge wrote in preparation for his interview with El Tímpano and to practice his written Spanish. Right: Jorge stands for a portrait at a park in East Oakland on Jan. 16, 2025. |
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‘Will I be safe’? Transgender California youth feel threatened by Trump’s executive orders |
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Photo by J.W. Hendricks for CalMatters |
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Protesters gather in front of Children's Hospital Los Angeles to protest the hospital's decision to halt the intake of patients under the age of 19 seeking gender affirming care on Feb. 13, 2025. |
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Lake Tahoe could be a deathtrap during major wildfires |
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Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. for CalMatters |
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Traffic backed up by construction is lined up on one-lane U.S. Highway 50, next to a burn scar from the Caldor Fire that raced through the forest four years ago, in 2021. |
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Long-lost lanterns may soon light up Berkeley’s Northbrae neighborhood |
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Photo by Ximena Natera for Berkeleyside/CatchLight Local |
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Metalsmith Jerry Coe and Sofia Barron-Kardos, his apprentice, crafted new bronze lanterns to shine atop historic stone pillars in one of Berkeley's neighborhoods. |
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Still healing from past traumas, Half Moon Bay farmworkers face new fears |
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Photo by Hiram Durán for El Timpano/CatchLight Local |
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Mariachi Nueva Generación played Mexican classics like “Amor Eterno” at the second annual memorial for the seven farmworkers killed in a mass shooting at two local mushroom farms in 2023. |
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California got millions to train workers in disaster relief, but it’s leaving money on table |
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Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMatters/CatchLight Local |
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Temporary worker Demetrius Ensign uses a chainsaw to cut tree branches and trunks in Bartlett Park in Porterville on Dec. 4, 2024. Workers from the National Dislocated Worker Grant, a federally funded jobs program, are helping to clean the park of flood damage. |
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California lawmakers propose fixes for ‘insurance industry in shambles’ |
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Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMatters |
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Insurance market problems highlighted by the Los Angeles-area fires have legislators rushing to offer up possible solutions. A house burned by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Jan. 26, 2025. |
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