Capital & Main - Investigating Power & Politics
Capital & Main - Investigating Power & Politics is an award-winning online publication that reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues of our time.
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Jan 10, 2025 · Capital & Main has had stories co-published in more than 30 media outlets, from The Atlantic, Time, Reuters, The Guardian and Fast Company to The American Prospect, Grist, Slate and the Daily Beast.Working with top writers, editors and visual artists, we cover income inequality, climate change, the green economy, housing, health care, public education, immigration, race, and criminal justice.
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Peter Hong. Editor-in-Chief. Hong served for 15 years as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered numerous beats for the Metro and Business sections, as well as reporting from Washington, D.C., Iraq, Taiwan and various U.S. states.He produced major investigative pieces on Los Angeles city and county government, and wrote news, analytical and feature stories on race and culture ...
Bill Targeting Nonprofits Likely to Be Revived by New Congress
2 days ago · A controversial bill, described by critics as a calculated strike against pro-Palestinian groups, cleared the House of Representatives in November but ultimately stalled in the Senate as the session came to a close. The legislation, however, is expected to resurface in the new Congress, where it could gain fresh momentum. Analysts warn the measure could be wielded as a powerful tool to silence ...
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This series explores how public schools are now a battleground in the culture war of U.S. politics. Capital & Main will report from the classrooms and communities being divided as school boards and legislatures increasingly adopt book bans, limit the teaching of race and history and pass policies targeting gender identity in schools.
‘We’re Still Marching Steadily Towards an Uninsurable Future’
4 days ago · But the plan is extremely underfunded, with only about $2.5 billion in reinsurance (insurance for insurance companies) and $200 million in surplus cash. In just the devastated Pacific Palisades area alone, the plan has nearly $6 billion in exposure to wildfires.. As a result, explains former California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, it’s …
‘Biden Had to Put the Country First’ - capitalandmain.com
Jan 5, 2023 · As Transportation Division president of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART), Jeremy R. Ferguson represents 28,000 workers in the nine rail unions whose members work for the railroad freight hauling companies.
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Striking Back Series
Nov 12, 2024 · STRIKING BACK: Can American Workers Disrupt Inequality? This two-year series explores how American workers across political, geographic and racial lines
Oil Companies Must Set Aside More Money to Plug Wells, a New …
The agency based the required bond amounts on the cost to plug a typical orphan well, which it estimated to be $71,000. It drew from a narrow sample — 22 wells the agency recently paid to plug in three states — contending that was “a sufficient representation of wells to …