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Residents, consumer advocates, and doctors statewide agreed that allowing three Colorado coal-fired power plants to stay open beyond their scheduled closure dates will worsen public health, contribute to more deaths and increase costs for ratepayers. capitalandmain.com/why-coal-…
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Capital & Main is reporting on the challenges low-income Angelenos face in finding affordable housing in market-rate buildings like the one in this photo.
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Two years ago, immigration attorney Mario Valenzuela visited a client at the Golden State Annex, an ICE detention center operated by the private prison giant The GEO Group Inc. in the small town of McFarland in California’s San Joaquin Valley. capitalandmain.com/californi…
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In fact, a 2024 memorandum of understanding between the city of McFarland and the GEO Group gives GEO’s civilian administrators responsibility for specific law enforcement duties at its facilities.
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GEO staff is responsible for detaining people “suspected of violating the law” at the facilities and processing “evidence obtained from an arrest, including but not limited to weapons, narcotics and currency,” even though GEO administrators are not sworn police officers.
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Fifty summers ago, in 1976, journalist and author Alex Haley published his masterwork, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” Last month, a Tennessee school board banned the novel from libraries after deciding a single scene violated a state law. capitalandmain.com/alex-hale…
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The Republican-led assault on federal Medicaid funding was always going to be a nightmare for the states. In California, experts are broadly predicting a health care crisis for millions due to the federal cuts. capitalandmain.com/county-ta…
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The UC Berkeley Labor Center has estimated that as many as 3 million Californians are at risk of losing Medi-Cal coverage by 2028 as a result of policy changes and funding cuts to the program under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (Medi-Cal is the state’s version of Medicaid.)
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Still, a sales tax increase is a difficult proposition, even if some residents will benefit from keeping county health and safety net services afloat.
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Police don’t respond to calls at ICE detention centers in this California town, citing agreement with private prison giant The GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim. capitalandmain.com/californi…
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In Los Angeles County, a measure to add a half-cent to the existing sales tax that would primarily fund health care services holds a razor-thin lead, with votes still being counted. The measure would help address cuts to state funded health insurance. capitalandmain.com/county-ta…
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Unlike the case for the Venezuelan men in El Salvador, Congress and the media have spent little time looking into the ongoing imprisonment of the men in Eswatini. But for the family members of the people sent there, the separation has been devastating.
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As with the Venezuelan men sent to El Salvador last year by the Trump administration, when the Eswatini-bound flight arrived, the government there placed the new arrivals in a maximum security prison, where most remain today with no way to challenge their detention.
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According to a complaint filed with the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, the men didn’t know where they were going until the plane had almost landed.
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