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24,000 healthcare workers in California authorize strike action by 96 percent
On Monday, 24,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers in the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) voted by 96 percent to authorize strike action. Voter turnout was high at 86 percent, an indication of the determination of health care professionals to fight against dangerously low staffing ratios.
Antiviral pills on the way; death rates climb in rural areas
Delta pounds rural communities
COVID-19 is moving to the country. While cases were highest in urban areas as the pandemic began, the pattern flipped as summer drew to a close, according to a new report from the Rural Policy Research Institute. Now rural case rates outnumber those in cities, and rural dwellers are at more than twice the risk of death as urbanites.
Number of Californians living with Alzheimer’s projected to double by 2040
The number of Californians 65 and older living with Alzheimer’s disease is projected to more than double by the year 2040, according to new data released by the California Department of Public Health in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Association.
Diana Borden Dead After Car Collision at State Street
73-year-old Diana Borden lost her life Thursday morning following a car collision on State Street near Community College Drive.
California’s tax on inherited properties hurts minority communities | Commentary
Housing. It’s an issue full of inequities that continue to impact minority and Black families in California.
Whether it was redlining in the 1930s, a discriminatory practice of denying financial services to residents of certain areas based on their race or ethnicity, or racist language embedded in property records, people of color have battled housing inequality for far too long.
