By Alex Stuckey
There are only eight kids in this class at Linda Tutt Learning Center, but the chaos erupting throughout the room and spilling into the hallway would set any teacher on edge.
La fisura en el rendimiento ha sido una preocupación de la educación pública. Ahora la pandemia ha ampliado aún más la grieta.
By Emily Bader
Like many patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain, Todd Papianou, a high school teacher from Rumford, knows the thin line between life-saving and life-destroying medication.
New Tenderloin Site Highlights Challenge of Connecting People to Drug Treatment and Housing Services
By Holly McDede
The new site opened amid mounting pressure on city leaders to reduce open-air drug use and skyrocketing overdose deaths in the neighborhood.
The White House, National Academies and now some members of Congress have called for nursing home reforms. Rep. Bobby Rush says corporations must be held accountable for pandemic deaths.
As the shooting in Sacramento reminds us this week, gun violence is one of the biggest public health crises in America.
By Alex Stuckey
Lacking resources, she thought her mentally ill son would be safer in jail. Then he was beaten to death.
By Adam Mahoney
Hundreds of people have been shot and killed in the industrial corridors of Wilmington, California.
“COVID only made things worse. Delivery of services came to a screeching halt,” said one developmental pediatrician.
Many vulnerable Minnesotans have no idea that their county can place a hefty lien on their home to recover expenses for long-term care.
Rochester Mayor Malik Evans campaigned last year on a promise to "promote environmental justice in every neighborhood ... (while) making Rochester an environmentally friendly city of the future."
