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Kids fight back: A year in book banning

In one Texas town, students fought back with banned-book clubs, pride events and political activism

Salon · Dec 30, 2023

It’s Settled: New Mexico to Bankroll Plugging of Oil Wells for Texas Company

The company at the center of the settlement is called a “poster child” for state Oil and Gas Act reforms.

Capital & Main · Dec 21, 2023

Los Angeles Orders More Residential Hotels to Stop Renting to Tourists

Twenty-one hotels have been cited so far. If the citations are enforced and upheld in court, hundreds of rooms could be turned back into low-cost permanent housing for the city’s poorest residents.

Capital & Main · Dec 21, 2023

Residential Hotels Got Contracts Under the Los Angeles Mayor’s Homelessness Program Despite Violations 

A city law sought to prevent low-cost housing from turning into hotels, but some landlords rented to tourists anyway. That didn’t stop them from receiving city funds for a new temporary shelter program.

Capital & Main · Nov 14, 2023

After Five Years in Fighting Disney in Courts, Anaheim Living Wage Law to Take Effect

Despite the long delay to raise resort workers’ wages close to $20 an hour, their 2018 victory inspired labor collaboration driving current strikes.

Capital & Main · Nov 9, 2023

Pennsylvania Governor’s Deal With Fracking Company Splits Environmentalists

Voluntary agreement on health and safety reforms hailed as progress but critics say it lacks teeth.

Capital & Main · Nov 8, 2023

‘They Can’t Breathe’

In many poor, largely Black Southern towns, residents say polluting wood pellet mills foul their air and forests.

Capital & Main · Nov 7, 2023

Bay Area Hospice Workers Vote to Unionize

The Hospice East Bay vote shows growing unionization at end-of-life care.

Capital & Main · Nov 3, 2023

Los Angeles Mayor Orders Residential Hotels to Be Opened for Temporary Shelter

A 2008 city law intended hotels used as primary residences to be preserved as safety-net housing. But with little enforcement, some landlords had turned their buildings into tourist hotels.

Capital & Main · Nov 3, 2023

Lessons From the Bust That Followed Bill Clinton’s Economic Boom

Historian Nelson Lichtenstein’s new book details the price we have paid for free trade, deregulation and failed health care reform.

Capital & Main · Oct 27, 2023