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The State Assembly advanced a bill Thursday that will lessen the burden of survivors of sexual assault trying to gain sole custody of their children.
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Roughly 700 U.S. Marines will now begin their withdrawal from Los Angeles and return to their normal duties, the Pentagon announced Monday.
A policy brief published last month by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation offers a series of recommendations on how education and building codes can help schools become more heat-resilient in the face of global warming. State Sen. Caroline Menjivar, a Democrat, introduced legislation this year requiring schools to have heat plans by 2027, and another bill would make it easier for schools to create more shaded spaces.
The staff at CALÓ NEWS has made the publication a top news outlet in LA in less than a year. Credit: Cecilia Zarate / CALÓ NEWS
Today, CALÓ NEWS and our staff celebrate a milestone. This issue marks our one-year anniversary. Last year, the Latino Media Collaborative (LMC), an emerging non-profit organization that develops high-impact media outreach, launched CALÓ NEWS with the mission of informing, engaging and empowering our greater Latino community on the issues and perspectives that mean most to us, particularly for those who live in a growing number of news and media deserts.
Caroline Menjivar grew up in San Fernando Valley and believes she is ready to lead District 20 to a brighter future.
Menjivar grew up in San Fernanco Valley, where her mother cleaned private homes and her father worked as a waiter at a Studio City country club. Menjivar recalled attending Encino Charter Elementary School, a public school in the high-priced suburb of Encino, CA. She immediately felt out of place, she said. “I was going to an affluent school where my classmate’s homes were big and they had big screen TVs,” Menjivar said. “That’s when I started [wondering] why my classmates had so many cool things, big houses, expensive things and we didn’t? As a kid, you don’t know what all that means. You just know that the inequity doesn’t feel right.”
While canvassing neighbors to earn her second-place win, Menjivar broke her ankle. A minor setback that hardly crippled her early success as a…