Noxious neighbors: The EPA knows tanks holding heavy fuels emit harmful chemicals. Why are Americans still at risk?

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(Pictured above: Global Partners’ Chelsea Terminal sits across the river from Boston and just steps away from a neighborhood. Credit: Julia Kane/Inside Climate News) This story appeared in Inside Climate News on April 19, 2021. By Sabrina Shankman (’09), Julia Kane (’21) This article was produced in collaboration with Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. Brittany Liscord…

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“I felt hate more than anything”: How an active duty airman tried to start a civil war

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(Pictured above: Steven Carrillo is charged with murdering a Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff and a security officer guarding Oakland’s federal courthouse. Credit: FRONTLINE) This story appeared in ProPublica on April 13, 2021. It is part of a collaboration between Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes the documentary American Insurrection, airing 10 p.m. Eastern…

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A successful lifeline for Natomas students is feeling the strain

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This story appeared in The New York Times on March 24, 2021. By Erin Chessin (’21) and Brett Marsh (’21) The Natomas Unified School District, a diverse, low-income community on the northern outskirts of Sacramento, is celebrated for its pioneering mental health program. The program, created after a student’s suicide in 2014, dispatches rapid response…

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Elderly at small residential care homes face challenges getting COVID-19 vaccine

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Pictured above: Alberto Solano, a caregiver at Casa Rivera Assisted Living & Memory Care in Rodeo, Calif., receives a COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Christina Ponce on Feb. 5. (Photo by Anne Daugherty ’21) This story appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Feb. 18, 2021 By Anne Marshall-Chalmers (’22) California’s effort to vaccinate people in residential care…

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Rapid vaccine rollout at California nursing homes raises concern

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This story appeared in The Mercury News on Jan. 7. 2021 By Anne Marshall-Chalmers (’22) As coronavirus vaccines arrive at California nursing homes and long-term care facilities, many residents will be eager to receive a vaccine that promises to finally ease the months of grief and isolation. Before that can happen, though, facilities must obtain consent from…

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With COVID-19 concerns, anxious families eye in-home senior care

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Note: To respect the privacy of the family in this story, and because of sensitivity around their work visa, we are not using their full names. (Stock photo of a caregiver and her client from verbaska_studio) Listen to the radio version of this story, which was broadcast on The California Report Magazine here. By Brett…

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Oakland’s Chinatown business owners struggle to weather the pandemic

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Tamera Moore and Qinghui Kong on November 5, 2020 Charles Hong is the second-generation owner of Shandong Restaurant. His father started the business in 1991, and the restaurant has been in Oakland’s Chinatown for almost 30 years now. “Before COVID I could put around 12 tables and serve 50 people at the same time,” Hong said. Now, he…

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