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Artificial intelligence allows teachers to create virtual reality spaces to help further their students’ education in a protected environment. Many expect to see the region’s businesses soon adopt the tech as well.
Maria Hernandez, a representative from the UNITE HERE Local 11 union, regarding the failed contract negotiation between the union and 61 hotels in Los Angeles that has resulted in thousands of hotel workers walking off the job during an especially impactful weekend as it’s the Fourth of July holiday as well as the Anime Expo in downtown L.A. (LAist — July 2, 2023)
A year ago, six jurisdictions were selected as the first participants in an incubator project designed to help them harness the economic power of publicly owned land and buildings. Atlanta is ready to use what it learned.
The response to COVID-19 led to problems in schools, mental health and urban life. That doesn't mean it was all a mistake.
Putting the First Amendment, national security and America’s most (in)famous leakers — Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning — in context.
Networks of thousands of home-based batteries could be key to a cleaner, more reliable electricity system.
A legal scholar explains why federal agencies are purchasing so much of the data on the open market and what it means for privacy in the age of AI.
The handful of new laws include a ban on non-compete clauses, a requirement to address increasing violence against health-care workers and an expansion of voting allowances for incarcerated individuals.
A team of researchers has developed a plan for helping the state achieve its ambitious climate goals, which includes increasing EV purchases, a reduction in driving, switching more buildings to electricity and generating more renewable energy.
The $380 million plan will turn a portion of the Marin County, Calif., prison into a Scandinavian-inspired rehabilitation center, including a new education and vocation space. However, the plan does not commit to a set number of prison closures.
A new audit found that there is a “high likelihood” that hundreds of state troopers collectively falsified tens of thousands of traffic ticket records over the last decade. The state has launched an investigation into the matter.
Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, regarding the National Weather Service’s decision to end “Alaska Weather,” a program designed for those living in rural and largely roadless Alaska, after 47 years of daily broadcasting. Moving forward, the program will only be available on YouTube, which some residents worry about accessing due to unreliable Internet service. (Associated Press — June 28, 2023)
California leads the country in electrifying its transportation sector, according to a new scorecard from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. States can pursue a range of strategies to support greater adoption of electric vehicles.
After a decade, the state’s open, nonpartisan primaries still have their critics, but it’s clear that they have steadily reduced polarization. The system could do the same for other states.
Mayor Matt Mahan recently held a press conference to further stress the city’s “zero tolerance policy” for public drug crimes and reinforced the need for arrests and treatments. But it remains unclear if the crackdown will make a meaningful impact.
Nearly one million residents get their drinking water from municipal wells contaminated with toxic forever chemicals. For the 1.4 million that depend on private wells, individual well owners must take on the onus of testing their water.
The $24.3 billion school budget, which largely invests in the state’s K-12 schools, will include $90.9 million for a state-funded preschool program, $140 million in one-time grant funding for literacy instruction and $204.5 million for at-risk students.
North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Mike Morgan, regarding a potential 2024 run for governor. Morgan, who is a Democrat, announced he won’t seek re-election to the court next year and has said that many within the party are asking him to consider a gubernatorial candidacy. (Associated Press — June 29, 2023)
It's one thing to try to impose discipline within the party; punishing members of the other party involves a different set of dynamics. Plus, can you fire a non-appointee?
More than 7,500 people were killed last year, the highest number of fatalities in 40 years. The epidemic of deaths has been blamed on bad driving behavior, oversized vehicles and flaws in the design of highways and roads.
Over 2,000 square miles of land have been lost in the past 100 years due to natural and manmade causes. The state intends to spend $1 billion annually for the next several decades to protect what remains of its coastal areas.
“Only the Sahara Desert and Persian Gulf area will be as hot or hotter than the Lone Star State” as a heat dome covers large swaths of the state, bringing temperatures well above 100 degrees.
A federal court officially repealed California’s 2020 law that would have banned private immigrant detention facilities in the state; now other states are scaling back their legislation, hoping less severe policies will pass.
The state will devote nearly $150 million to overhauling the state’s reading and writing instruction to improve poor reading test scores. Advocates believe it to be a long-term commitment to students.
The expansion of the Deferred Retirement Option Program will allow career government workers and educators to draw pensions while continuing to work for eight to 10 years but will cost the state an additional $350 million annually.
Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated Central Park Five, in his victory speech after winning the Democratic primary on Tuesday, June 27, to represent a Harlem-based seat in the New York City Council. Salaam earned about 50 percent of the vote in his race. (Gothamist — June 27, 2023)
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