As her junior year of high school came to a close in 2023, Tamara Gisiger’s history teacher tasked the class with a research project of their choosing.
A then-17-year-old Gisiger narrowed in on what she called an “underground, hurtful and dark part of history that just isn’t talked about” — the Mexican repatriation that took place in the 1930s amid the Great Depression.
Watch: State senator discusses injustice of 1930s US deportations
State Sen. Josh Becker discusses a new push to call for justice and recognition for a dark chapter in U.S. history: the forced deportations and injustices that devastated hundreds of thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American families in the 1930s.
Watch here.
In the absence of federal guardrails on artificial intelligence in health care, state governments are figuring out their own rules of the road.
Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is health care's biggest wild card. But it's drawing hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, and health providers and drug developers are already using it -- essentially without oversight.
(FOX40.COM) — New legislation in California is seeking to speed up production of temporary tiny homes amid the state’s housing and homelessness crisis.
(The Mercury News) - The Bay Area tops the list of U.S. regions grappling with soaring costs of living. While housing, food, childcare, and health care expenses have strained residents’ budgets for years, a new expense has emerged as a major issue: utility costs.
(CapRadio) -- Two tiny homes stood on the lawn of the state Capitol this week. They look similar to camping trailers; they’re even on wheels. These models are already in use in some California cities like Santa Barbara.
Lara Ohanesian is a project manager for Boss Cubez, the company that made these homes. She gave tours of a furnished room.
“It has a bed, a twin-sized bed, a desk with a chair, some shelving and some storage for a resident, and the most important — it has a locking door,” she said.
(Pleasanton Weekly) -- The design solution for California’s homeless crisis may come in the form of steel Lego-like modular units with electricity, showers and key-pad locks that are assembled by forklift into temporary communities on public land.
That is the vision of state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, who promoted his Senate Bill 1395 on Thursday morning in Sacramento. He was joined by co-authors Assemblymember Gregg Hart, D-Santa Barbara, and state Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, who both called for local governments to allow these places to be sited on public land.
(KQED) -- To achieve its ambitious climate goals, California will likely need to not only slash emissions but also remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using technology that’s new and very expensive.