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Communities that live in the shadow of industry are hit hard by pollution, and by Covid-19. But companies are using the pandemic to try to delay stricter rules. June 9, 2020 Every day, nearly 18,000 diesel-powered trucks barrel along State Route 60 in Jurupa Valley, a small city 45 miles east of Los Angeles. The…
June 17, 2020 When talk of retirement came up, Wanda DeSelle, 76, would always laugh it off. “I’ll retire after you do,” Mrs. DeSelle would tell her boss of 40 years, Dr. Mohammad Ashraf, a cardiologist seven years her junior. “She’d say, ‘If you’ll work for another 20 years, then I’ll work for another 20…
May 29, 2020 The sudden shift to remote learning has pushed Sonoma County’s 40 school districts into unchartered territory, testing already-strained resources. For its nearly 400 special education students, the transition has been especially tough, and the stakes could not be higher, as districts plan for summer and fall sessions. On a typical school day,…
June 2, 2020 While protesters flooded the streets of cities across the country this weekend, community groups set up medical tents and distributed hand sanitizer at the playground of Leola M. Havard Early Education School in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. It was the first two days of COVID-19 testing in San Francisco’s District 10 —…
May 12, 2020 Many of the public services and spaces unhoused people rely on have temporarily stopped or closed. Those that remain open are overburdened and under-resourced. The over 5,000 unhoused residents of Berkeley and Oakland struggle to find the most basic necessities as libraries and restaurants are closed, and food banks and meal…
May 18, 2020 OAKLAND — In his 20 years in and out of homelessness, Ollie Harris, 69, has seen a lot of things. But what happened on a recent Friday was new. Sitting outside his tent on a patch of ground he and his wife staked out near Lake Merritt, he watched a white…
May 8, 2020 You may know Calaveras County for its almost century-old frog jump competition, which was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus. But the shelter-in-place restrictions have shuttered an even older Calaveras gem: The Murphys Historic Hotel. Reporter Will McCarthy has the story. Listen Here
Listen Here May 10, 2020 James Thompson thinks the only reason he got hired to work at Yosemite National Park was because he was blessed with a phone interview. “My employer couldn’t see my wheelchair,” he said. “He couldn’t see my service dog or the backpack on my back.” Thompson, 40, has cerebral…
The Faces Behind the Fresh Fruits and Vegetables America Demands MAY 14, 2020 Over the course of a week, in the midst of the pandemic, photographer Wesaam al-Badry drove almost 1,600 miles, by his estimation, visiting several small farming towns in California’s Central Valley in late April. Along the way, he met with farmworkers: tangerine…
