Sorenson’s Ranch School must retrain its staff and abide by state rules or close.
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
A key group of Texas representatives considered a proposal Tuesday that would lengthen health insurance coverage for low-income mothers.
Gov. Spencer Cox on Monday signed a bill that will put more regulations in place at youth residential treatment centers.
This story is part of a larger project series, "Voices from the Vineyard," led by Sarah Klearman, a 2020 Impact Fellow. She is reporting on how the twin crises of the pandemic and the wildfires have impacted the health of the valley’s farmworkers and their families....
“Disasters have a way of exposing the most vulnerable among us and putting them in harm’s way,” Terence Mulligan, president of the Napa Valley Community Foundation, told me.
As the number of coronavirus cases and deaths continue to tick up around the country, an estimated 13% of people in Shelby County are facing the pandemic without health insurance.
The proposed Byhalia Connection pipeline, a joint venture of Plains All American Pipeline and the Valero Energy Corp., set off an environmental justice movement that's picked up steam in Memphis and around the country, as Black families from southwest Memphis square off with Big Oil.
“We in primary care are exhausted.”
An analysis of cases in 50 ZIP codes in Kern by The Californian shows that rural valley communities surrounding Bakersfield — many of which are home to prisons, farmworkers and some of the county's most impoverished pockets — were hardest hit.
Even after new legislation, critics question whether Utah’s oversight will be sufficient to keep kids safe.