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Health reporter Jackie Fortiér's story revealed people with developmental disabilities wanted their in-home aides to be added to the list of health workers required to get the shot. Her story won a 2022 regional Edward R. Murrow Award in Hard News. -
After a surge in anti-Asian incidents, support is growing to build a memorial at the massacre site in downtown L.A. Josie Huang's story won a 2022 regional Edward R. Murrow Award in the Excellence in Writing category.
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Child care was labeled essential during the coronavirus pandemic. Still, preschool teachers, family child care providers, relatives and nannies have long been doing the critical work of helping young kids grow and thrive. Mariana Dale's and Stefanie Ritoper's project won a 2022 regional Edward R. Murrow Award in the Excellence in Innovation category.
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California has consolidated nearly every medical parole patient at a single facility — one with a troubled track record.
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Current and former medical staff describe a working environment that is dysfunctional, abusive and detrimental to providing health care, with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sean Henderson at the center of the storm.
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As one scholar puts it: “The hidden curriculum is the rules of the game that some people get the rulebook for and some other people don’t."
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It’s the best time of year to tear up your yard and plant sustainable foliage.
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They're beautiful, grow delicious fruit, and are so moist that they could potentially work to protect against fires. Could large scale banana plantings be the solution to some of our fire woes?
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Can't maintain your own compost pile? Consider community composting. It's kind of like a community garden but for food scraps.
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The fire burned about six acres before being contained.
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In December, state utility regulators quietly postponed a vote on a proposal that would have made getting and keeping solar panels on rooftops more expensive. But public outcry has caused a reconsideration.
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The theory began in white supremacist circles and has slowly integrated into the mainstream of Republican politics.
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Hospitals call for more options as blood suppliers move to an expensive treatment method.
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That's up from 143 incidents in a report issued in 2021. Officials partly credited reducing stigma around the issue for the new reports, many of which are older and went unmentioned at the time.
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And it’s not just the mayor’s race, either.
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Feuer had struggled to gain traction in his bid to replace Eric Garcetti
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Pfizer and BioNTech are poised to formally ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the first COVID booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11.
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Households in the U.S. will receive eight test kits via the U.S. Postal Service. The release comes as cases have risen more than 60% in the U.S. over the past two weeks.
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Abbott, one of the largest formula-makers in the U.S., has reached an agreement with the government to bring a closed factory back on line. And the FDA is easing some restrictions on imported formula.
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