Environmental groups file new challenge to yet-unbuilt Alaska LNG export project
A polar bear breaks through thin Actic Ocean ice Aug. 23, 2009. A new legal challenge to the Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline project cites potential risks to polar…
Watch: California community colleges are losing millions to financial aid fraud
California’s community colleges are reporting a rise in financial aid fraud. In January, suspected bots represented 1 in 4 college applicants. Schools have given away millions to these scams, and…
Are CA schools diverting arts education money?
Kindergarten students participate in a hip-hop dance class at Radcliff Elementary School in Watsonville on May 21, 2024. Photo by Laure Andrillon for CalMatters A celebrity was in the house…
Oregon lawmakers will seek community feedback as they plan a transportation package
Oregon state officials are looking for new ways to fund transportation projects and maintenance as fuel tax revenues decline. An Oregon Department of Transportation road grader works on clearing Oregon…
SEIU celebrates $16 home care worker minimum wage, readies to lobby for $20
Home care workers in 2021 petitioned for the creation of a labor board focused on their industry. (Photo: April Corbin Girnus/Nevada Current) Policy, politics and progressive commentary SEIU Local 1107…
Raising kids in California? They may have college savings accounts you don’t know about.
In summary The state is directly investing money for low-income students and all newborns to attend college. After two years, the program is still not widely known by the students…
California spent nearly $1 billion to boost arts education. Are schools misspending it?
In summary Voters passed Proposition 28 to expand arts education in California schools. Some are planning to pay for existing positions, which backers of the initiative say violates its intent.…
Air taxis, delivery drones: Utah sets out to build ‘advanced air mobility system’ by 2034
Pictured is Elroy Chaparral’s autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft for middle-mile logistics, humanitarian aid shipping, and military resupply. A new public-private partnership in Utah called Project Alta aims…
Months after court ruling, commission to study IVF issues in Alabama hasn’t formed
From left to right: Cody Carnley of Crenshaw County, Alabama; Carrie McNair of Mobile; Veronica Wehby-Upchurch of Birmingham and Lindsey Shaw of Birmingham hold signs at a rally in support…
On this day in 1921
MAY 31, 1921 Buildings were destroyed during the Tulsa Race Massacre when a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood, a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Eyewitnesses recalled…