Monthly Archives: June 2013

CU Reporters Share Peaks and Pits of School Year

Jun. 7, 2013 / By
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Our Peaks

Ivan Delgado
Beat Reporter

“This year has gone all too well to have one specific high moment of the year...

Calif. Bill Would Send Sexually Exploited Children to Foster System

Jun. 7, 2013 / By
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New America Media, News Report, Nicole Hudley

SACRAMENTO — Erica Lawrence became worried about her friend when she started acting distant, losing weight, and getting into fights at school...

Local Fisherman Eat Contaminated Fish Despite Warnings

Jun. 7, 2013 / By
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By CSULB Senior Seminar Reporters Lauren Harvey, Ashley Ryan, Jessica Mendoza, Taylor Bell and Haley Adams

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Recognizing Filipino Workers– Past, Present & Future

Jun. 6, 2013 / By
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In Delano, they struggled as farmworkers with Cesar Chavez. In Long Beach, they organize as today’s hotel workers and domestic caregivers...

Residents Shine a Light on Pollution in Long Beach

Jun. 6, 2013 / By
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Long Beach residents currently live in air pollution, light pollution and water pollution. The Long Beach Port also plans to plant 6,000 trees by 2020 in an attempt to improve health quality this May...

Prom & Pride: Coming Out in High School

Jun. 6, 2013 / By
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Senior year of high school is a pivotal time in one’s life. Aside from the academic rigor of graduating school with passing grades, there’s the added pressure of getting into college or finding a job...

Death to Molly: Youth React to Rapper’s Anti-Drug Stance

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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Photo: NRK P3

by We’Ced Youth Media

Editor’s Note: Kendrick Lamar, a young rapper from Compton, CA, recently broke into the mainstream with his critically and commercially successful debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d..

Deported U.S. Veterans Create Art on Border Wall

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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El Tecolote, News Report, Laura Waxmann

Traducción al español

Editor’s Note: One of the amendments to the Senate’s immigration reform bill (Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.)..

Why Some Schools Want To Expel Suspensions

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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The effectiveness of school suspensions is up for debate. California is the most recent battleground, but a pattern of uneven application and negative outcomes is apparent across the country...

Survey Reveals One-Fifth of American Families Face Burdensome Health Care Costs

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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More than 1 in 5 Americans under age 65 had problems paying medical bills in 2011, and the burden disproportionately fell on the poor, the uninsured and those on government health care programs, according to survey findings released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday...

Housing Long Beach Outlines Priorities For Upcoming Housing Element Of City’s General Plan

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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By Samantha Mehlinger – Staff Writer, Long Beach Business Journal

Housing Long Beach (HLB) is advocating priorities to be included in the city’s updated Housing Element draft, which is being reviewed by the city’s planning commission and released to the public June 20...

1 Minute And 45 Seconds That’ll Make You Think Twice About Poverty

Jun. 5, 2013 / By
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Let’s dialogue on this.

In their new book, Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, co-authors Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube describe the recent rapid rise in suburban poverty and lay out a new metropolitan policy agenda that uses limited resources in more effective ways to create better connections between low-income residents and economic opportunity region-wide...