US-expelled Haitians fuel charter business to Latin America
(Etienne Ilienses checks her family’s papers for a flight to Chile, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Ilienses said she was sent back to Haiti from Texas on Dec. 14 and talked to the AP before flying to Santiago with her three children on a Jan. 30 charter…
Read MoreNews Analysis: Anthony, Noah, Gabriel and beyond: How to fix L.A. County DCFS
BY GARRETT THEROLF, MATT HAMILTON From left, Anthony Avalos, Gabriel Fernandez and Noah Cuatro. In the long, troubled history of L.A. County child abuse cases, certain names stand out as avatars of how the system can go terribly awry. Anthony Avalos. Gabriel Fernandez. Noah Cuatro. But since the spring of 2020, another name has wielded outsize influence…
Read MoreOne Bay Area city, 73 police dog bites, and the law that made them public
How the city of Richmond could be a test case in California’s quest for police accountability Odin lunges during training at the Richmond Police K-9 training facility in November. Richmond police have logged dog bites at a higher rate than their counterparts in the nation’s largest cities, but police argue it’s better to use dogs than…
Read MoreNo way out: How the poor get stranded in California nursing homes
(Bradley Fisher, 62, in the Antioch home he eventually moved into after spending 14 years in a Bay Area nursing home. Sept. 2, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters) By Jesse Bedayn (’21) This story appeared in CalMatters on January 20, 2022. Bradley Fisher, a 62-year-old retired mechanic, lived in a Bay Area nursing home…
Read MoreHow new monitoring systems keep a close watch on older people
(Hannah Norman/KHN illustration) By Sofie Kodner This story appeared in The Washington Post on November 20, 2021. In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out the front door of her son’s home in Grand Rapids, barefoot and coatless. Her destination was unknown even to herself. Wurdock was several years into a…
Read MoreConversation and Cookies Lead to An Intergenerational Friendship
(Pictured above: Kathleen Toohill, left, and her friend Sukari Addison. Credit: Kathleen Toohill) This story appeared on the Next Avenue website on October 22, 2021. Octogenarian Sukari Addison and millennial Kathleen Toohill met through the My Life, My Stories program in San Francisco and have been fast friends ever since Editor’s note: The Investigative Reporting Program…
Read MoreHow Amtrak Trains Became One Retired Traveler’s Sanctuary During the Pandemic
This story appeared in Travel and Leisure on October 11, 2021. In the early hours of a cool morning in October 2020, the Cardinal traced a creek through the outskirts of Cincinnati and lumbered into Union Terminal. The enormous and echoing train station was nearly deserted. For months, as death spread and the world watched desperately…
Read More‘It makes a humongous difference’: Lack of Wi-Fi in city SROs deepens residents’ isolation
(Pictured Above: Jack Huck, 72, uses an Android phone, but has no internet access from his longtime room in the Winton Hotel, a single-room-occupancy residence in San Francisco. The Wi-Fi gap leaves many people isolated. Photo by Nick Otto/Special to The Chronicle) This story appeared in print and e-edition of The San Francisco Chronicle on…
Read MoreOakland’s illegal trash-dumping crisis is worse than ever. Here’s why
(Pictured above: Marcus Leggett (left), a street maintenance leader, and Ayinde Osayaba, a street maintenance worker, pick up trash in Oakland. They are part of a team that drives through areas of Oakland that are known hot spots for illegal dumping.) This story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 24, 2021. At one…
Read MoreBefore a 4-year-old boy’s killing, authorities wavered on rescuing him
(Photo above: Noah Cuatro in an undated photo. From grand jury evidence) This story appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, August 19, 2021. By Matt Hamilton, Garrett Therolf, Daniel Lempres (’21) Maggie Hernandez dialed Los Angeles County’s child abuse hotline on a spring afternoon in 2019. She said her niece’s son, Noah Cuatro,…
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