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The last town before the crossing, Hachita, is 45 miles north of the border, and is little more than a crossroads that doesn’t merit a stop sign, let alone a traffic light. The Old Hachita copper and silver mining settlement from the 1870s is now a ghost town that lures the occasional tourist, but the […]

  “Almost everyone I know is working two jobs to make ends meet” Los Angeles teachers prepare for strike By Jerry White and Kim Saito 7 January 2019 More than 33,000 teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are set to strike Thursday in what would be the largest walkout by educators in the […]

Indeed, in the wake of Kevin Hart stepping down as this year’s Academy Awards host following controversy over past homophobic jokes, some winners may have been more chosen their words more carefully than they otherwise might. (Samberg referenced the motion picture academy’s most recent headache in the opening monologue, joking, “We’re going to have some […]

A woman jogging in a Bay Area park was bitten by the owner of a dog who also attacked the jogger, police said. The jogger was in Anthony Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley when a dog attacked her about 10:30 a.m. Thursday, and she had to defend herself with pepper spray, the East Bay […]

It may be time to stop thinking of the Central Valley as the downtrodden sibling to California’s coastal powers. By some measures, the Central Valley outperformed the Bay Area and Southern California in 2018, according to state population and economic figures. Population growth in the Valley outpaced gains in both the Bay Area and Southern […]

The most obvious data point that “America Is Falling Out of Love With Silicon Valley,” as one Bloomberg headline put it, is probably the tumbling stock prices of tech companies. The big five — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google — lost about a trillion dollars in the fourth quarter. In October came another signal, […]