By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. Blake Phillips is pretty sure he did everything right, which makes it all the more baffling to […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. California Gov. Gavin Newsom last month announced a whopper initiative for the 2024 ballot. Sprawling in its ambition, […]
By Bobbi Murray This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. “I think democracy thrives when everybody can participate,” says California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Culver City). In February […]
By Mark Schapiro This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. The Butterfly Effect Ten years ago I met a lepidopterist, a fanatic for butterflies. During butterfly season, […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. Inflation bore down hard on Californians in 2022, but the effect was especially toxic at the lower reaches […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. California’s vulnerability to destructive flooding is anything but a secret. Meteorologists and climatologists have been warning of the […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. For Maria Zavala’s family, there are no easy years. But last year brought […]
By Pilar Marrero This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. After interviewing hundreds of farmworkers in three states for a study of the impact […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. Gloria Merino came to the Salinas Valley from the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, […]
By Pilar Marrero This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. Luis Lopez, 50, who has worked the strawberry fields in Santa Maria for […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. In the summer of 2008, Andres Cruz got a call from a crew […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. Carmen Hernandez lives in a small home on Chateau Fresno Avenue, […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Millions of Californians are grinding their way through an inflationary cycle that hit 40-year highs over the […]
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Rising inflation is taking a toll on most Americans, none more severely than lower income workers and families […]
By Peter Hong This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. In 2003, Rick Wartzman was overseeing the business section of the Los Angeles Times when his team produced a […]
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