The Lottery Is the Main Attraction at This Alpine County Market
May 9, 2020 Listen Here Alpine County is one of California’s most remote counties. On the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada and just south of Lake Tahoe, Alpine has the smallest population of any California county, with just under 1,200 residents. But it’s no tiny enclave. By comparison, Alpine County and Alameda County cover…
Read MoreStory by Casey Smith and Katey Rusch makes front page of The New York Times
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Read MoreAnother Covid-19 Loss? The Jumping Frog Jubilee
May 11, 2020 Since Jon Kitchell began competing in the annual Calaveras Jumping Frog Jubilee, his brother has won, his wife has won, and his son has won. Even his daughter-in-law has won. As for Mr. Kitchell, 58, he’s still working on it. “I think every year is the year,” he said. Except this…
Read More‘My Mom Is Beyond a Superwoman’: Mother’s Day While Locked Up
Pedro Archuleta and his mother, Connie Archuleta, have gotten closer since Pedro’s incarceration in 2002. But the COVID-19 pandemic has cast a shadow of worry over both of them. Connie worries about conditions inside the California Institution for Men in Chino, where Pedro, who also has a respiratory illness called Valley fever, is locked up.…
Read MoreHow Do You Enforce a Law That Tramples the Land of the Free?
Angela Alvarado, a veteran prosecutor in the Santa Clara district attorney’s office in California, has to weigh safety, freedom and the law as she fields complaints about stay-at-home violations. May 11, 2020 LOS ALTOS, Calif. — How do you enforce a law that tramples the Land of the Free? This is the vexing question confronting…
Read MoreWithout Restaurant Sales, Local Farms Face Tough Decisions
When the statewide shelter-in-place order shuttered many restaurants in the Bay Area, Annabelle Lenderink panicked. She manages Star Route Farms, which grows a variety of vegetables in West Marin and the Coachella Valley. Nearly all of the restaurant sales the 40-acre farm depends on evaporated overnight. “It was just really gone, you know, nothing,” Lenderink…
Read MoreCOVID-LA Photo Series
May 4, 2020 Clara Mokri, student at Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium member UC Berkeley, captured the following images throughout Los Angeles during the shelter-in-place order. View the series here. See more of Mokri’s work at www.claramokriphotography.com or on Instagram @claramokriphoto.
Read MoreIn-Home Healthcare Workers Lack PPE
May 5, 2020 In-home supportive services workers help older, disabled people in their homes—so they don’t have to seek care elsewhere. Many of these minimum wage workers say the state hasn’t provided them with enough personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, shipments of N-95 masks and gloves have finally arrived, but there’s a…
Read MoreSee Which States Are Reopening and Which Are Still Shut Down
Read in The New York Times After weeks of shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation has begun to slowly open up. Beaches and state parks are reopening to visitors, spurring concerns about overcrowding. The first barbers have returned to work, masks over their faces. Some restaurants are getting ready to serve customers again.…
Read MoreWill Smoke From Controlled Burns Hurt Covid-19 Patients?
In the mountains of California, snow is melting, the days are ticking closer to fire season and officials responsible for fighting wildfires face an agonizing choice: Exacerbate the current crisis, or pile risk on to the next one. This is the season when California’s forests are thinned out with controlled burns to reduce the devastation…
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