Journalism Professor
I currently teach journalism at Cal State Long Beach.
Before that, I reported on the demographics of healthcare as a senior writer for the Center for Health Reporting. Previously, I had broad regional and national beat responsibilities in other reporting positions -- in New Orleans as Southern Regional Correspondent at the Associated Press and in New York as Hispanic Affairs reporter at Newsday.
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Is California merely robbing Peter to pay Paul with its voter-approved bond measure to house mentally ill homeless people? Places such as Tulare County could end up losing badly needed mental health funding.
The bond money for Proposition 2 will be financed by funds from the Mental Health Services Act, which has been mired in controversy and ineffectiveness since its passage in 2004.
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Alameda County saw a dramatic dip in its black infant mortality rate in the late 2000s. What can we learn from the county's success — and what went wrong since then?
In California, Alameda County’s success in saving lives has not been replicated statewide — and an already appalling gap between white and black infant death has grown since then.
