KPBS News – Politics
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KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
KPBS race and equity reporter Cristina Kim hosts our discussion on the situation involving Haitian asylum seekers in Texas and what it says about U.S. policy and actions toward vulnerable groups fleeing their home countries ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, a first of its kind effort, met with expert witnesses to examine the role slavery, the Great Migration and political disenfranchisement have played in the Black Californian experience ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
A private prison in Downtown San Diego remains open despite an executive order by President Joe Biden ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
Mayor Todd Gloria signed an ordinance Thursday authored by City Councilwoman Marni von Wilpert officially banning firearms without individual serial numbers — so-called "ghost guns" — in the city in an attempt to address increasing gun violence ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
One law makes it illegal to film people within 100 feet of an abortion clinic for the purpose of intimidating them. Another law makes it easier for people on their parents' health insurance plans to keep sensitive medical information secret, including abortions ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
The increase will hit single-family homes — which make up around 80% of the city's rate payers — hardest, while multi-family homes such as condos and apartments, as well as nonresidential rate payers will actually see a decrease of 5% and 12.1%, respectively ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
Blaming a staffing shortage, San Diego has slashed September weekend pool hours from 2019 ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
California experiences its hottest summer on record as supersized wildfires burn millions of acres, and local Hispanic journalists mentor the next generation of reporters ..read more
KPBS News – Politics
2y ago
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government must stop using a Trump-era public health order to quickly expel migrants with children who are apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border ..read more