In California, childcare workers, those who teach and care for the state's youngest residents, earn a median wage of less than $16 an hour. That's half as much as elementary and middle school teachers' median salaries, and $10 below the median wage for all workers in the state, according to the UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Childcare Employment.
A swarm of earthquakes shook Imperial County this weekend, with dozens of quakes, ranging in magnitude from 2.5 to 4.7, rattling the region around Brawley, south of the Salton Sea.
Before her rise to infamy in the late 1980s, Broderick appeared to be living the suburban dream. Married to prominent medical malpractice attorney Daniel Broderick, she maintained a position of influence and popularity in the ritzy La Jolla community where the couple raised their four children. But their apparent domestic paradise was thrown into disarray when Betty began to suspect her husband was having an affair with his younger office assistant, Linda Kolkena.
“There's a lot of great fighters from this gym, and all around Oakland,” McElroy Jr. tells me. At 19 years old, he's fully aware of the legacy of this soil. Retired Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward and current World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Devin Haney both started in the Town. Notable fighters like Bilal Mahasin, Amari Jones and Anthony Garnica learned the ropes here, as did Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire and Juaquin “Killer” Gallardo, a 1996 U.S. Olympic team alternate.
On Thursday, late afternoon, they were still talking about how to protect the area and went home feeling that they were still working together. On Friday, for whatever reason, the contractors bulldozed the area,
“We won't be participating in Taste of Temescal going forward,” the May 6, Instagram post stated. For Wentworth, the expense to the ice cream shop in donated product and staff hours was no longer worth it. By May 8, the post had more than 4,000 likes and was approaching 200 comments, sparking conversation about the event and the benefits to participating businesses.
Oakland Goes Outdoors, a local nonprofit organization that has partnered with Oakland Unified School District since 2018 to bring students out of the classroom and into the outdoors, on camping trips and hikes, for sailing expeditions and rock climbing. The trips are designed to connect students with nature, help them build stronger relationships with their peers and teachers, and introduce new places and skills that can sometimes seem inaccessible for youth from low-income neighborhoods.
During a trip from Oakland to San Diego, a team of workers with the rental company Elite Event Robotics was traveling with Bebop, a 77-pound robot that appears to be a Unitree G1. When they arrived at the airport, Southwest told them they couldn't check the robot as luggage due to weight restrictions, prompting them to buy the bot its own seat on the plane.
"It's so exciting. There have been many people who have asked us to look at new locations, and we want to just be really intentional. The mission behind this, the community, each one of our cafes is really unique, but there's something that's similar in every cafe, and we're trying to find what those unique pieces are, because we are looking to continue to grow."
Attendance at masses across the diocese's region has fallen since the early 2010s, meaning less participation in the sacraments and lower Catholic school enrollment. We are also at an all-time low of priests assigned to our 80 parishes, and the average age of our priests continues to climb.
The dense vegetation slated for cutting, estimated at about 400 large trees and 600 understory plants, buffers the park from the busy Union Pacific tracks, a key north-south route for freight and Amtrak.
"I first encountered the Giraffix mural beneath the 580 freeway in 1983 when I was eight years old. Seeing this majestic giraffe from the back seat of our Volkswagen station wagon, I remember the magic of seeing that beautiful creature & the way it stopped time for a moment. What I couldn't have known then was how that experience planted a seed that would quietly shape my path as an artist."
Cajun Claws Seafood Boil House has soft opened in Uptown Oakland, offering a 10% discount on dishes from noon to 5 p.m. The grand opening is scheduled for May 4, featuring a jazz band and complimentary food.
