Ford’s Red, Hot Expedition Tops Government Crash Test Ratings with Five Stars, Making It Best Among Competition

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awards all-new 2018 Ford Expedition a five- star rating in its New Car Assessment Program – the highest possible score – making this full-size SUV a leader in safety • Expedition is the only vehicle in its segment to earn an Overall Vehicle Score of five stars • Passenger…

CA journalists: $2-$3.5k reporting grant and data training!

Dear California Journalist, In this era of newsroom layoffs, journalists can’t have too many skills. Data-savvy journalists are among the most sought after in newsrooms today.  If you’ve  been  wanting to  improve  your data skills, we have an exciting opportunity for  you — the all-expenses-paid  Center  for Health Journalism’s 2018  California Data Fellowship, which comes…

Rep. Bass Joins More Than 100 Members In Introducing The Keep Families Together Act of 2018

WASHINGTON, DC — (June 19, 2018)Today, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) joined more than 100 of her colleagues in introducing the Keep Families Together Act of 2018 in response to the Trump administration’s insidious practice of family separation. This bill has also been introduced in the Senate by Senator Diane Feinstein of California. “The separation of…

MALDEF Decries ‘Zero Tolerance’ Travesty and Separation of Families, Calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Resign

(LOS ANGELES) – Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), released the following statement today on the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration stance that has led to forced separation of families and horrific accounts of children being taken from their parents: “Our nation’s soul is at…

Starbucks to close 150 locations in 2019

June 19 (UPI) — Starbucks announced Tuesday it plans to close 150 underperforming stores in the 2019 fiscal year. The company will triple its traditional annual average of closing about 50 stores as part of a streamlining effort including rapidly optimizing its U.S. store portfolio. “While certain demand headwinds are transitory, and some of our…

ORGANIZATIONAL MISBEHAVIOR Latino Kids Torn from Mothers’ Arms While Ivanka Trump’s Tweet Boasts of White Privilege

The administration of “family values” has created a narrative that  immigrants are not moms or dads, only criminals. Sheryl Estrada  June 11, 2018 Families fleeing dire situations are having their children torn from their arms due to a new “zero tolerance” Trump administration policy. Presidential Adviser Ivanka Trump on Twitter boasted of cuddling her two-year-old…

Family Demands Justice For Black Teen Fatally Shot By Riverside County Police

In 2016, Matthew Tucker was killed by officers from the Riverside County Sheriff’s office, who were called in for a suicide crisis intervention. Riverside County, CA (BlackNews.com) — Temecula, CA is a location families relocate to, attracted by a better school district in a ‘safer’ neighborhood. Temecula, California had earned a reputation for being the…

How RFK Saved MLK’s Life

By Greg Palast THE CASE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING 50 years ago today, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. This is the story of RFK’s profile in political courage, gambling his brother’s election to the Presidency in order to save Martin Luther King Jr. from lynching. It was a Republican, Martin Luther King Sr., who made…

A Better Way to Talk About Education

Americans want more out of education than good test-takers. But what? By Helen F. Ladd/NNPA?ESSA June 5, 2018 Standardized test scores have been the driving force in U.S. education for more than two decades. But across the country, parents concerned about the psychic toll of high-stakes testing on their children have been “opting out” of…

Assembly member Medina Responds to Racially Charged Incident at Riverside-Downtown Metrolink Station

RIVERSIDE, CA— Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside) released the following statement on alleged comments made by a security guard at the Riverside-Downtown Metrolink station: “Over the weekend, a young woman and her family allegedly confronted racially insulting words from a security guard while boarding Metrolink on their way to the beach and were subsequently kicked off…