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By Gus Ugalde
A battery recycling plant bordering Boyle Heights has been ordered to lower its cancer-causing emissions posing a danger to more than 110,000 southeast Los Angeles area residents...
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram and Paul Kleyman
Photo: Arsenio I. Jimenez, MD, examines patient at Sacramento’s Molina Medical Clinic...
When Woodrow Wilson High School teacher Mike Smith suffered of a heart attack years ago, he became a part of Building Bridges Camp history...
Enforcement issues and education barriers are the biggest problems facing the undocumented community in Long Beach according to community leaders at a forum on immigration reform last week...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) puts in place strong consumer protections, provides new coverage options and gives you the tools you need to make informed choices about your health...
News Analysis • Antoinette Evens
Public schools in California will no longer be ranked strictly by student performance on standardized test scores but by a number of other factors such as student readiness for college and the workplace, and other criteria that are yet to be determined by the State of California...
ACEsTooHigh, News Feature, Jane Ellen Stevens
Photo (above): Andre Griggs, after school program director, Le Grand High School
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is an excerpt of the first of a series of articles about how schools in California are moving from a punitive to a supportive, compassionate approach to school discipline...
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New America Media, Video, Khalil Abdullah
BALTIMORE — As one of America’s top ten wealthiest states and one that trends heavily Democratic, Maryland was among the nation’s first to move full throttle to implement the Affordable Care Act...
The City of Long Beach recently kicked off a campaign to develop a Violence Prevention Plan...
From the Richmond Pulse
by Asani Shakur
The “b-word” is so commonly used today, that it’s not really perceived as a bad word anymore...
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