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Andrew Nixon/CapRadioThe cost of electricity has skyrocketed for Californians in recent years. A report published last year by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) predicted, if unmitigated, this trend will only continue. The agency found that wildfires will likely continue driving up these costs. -
Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagA scathing report by California's Auditor of five large police departments finds evidence of officer bias against women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people, and there's no goal to improve.
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A Democratic bill would no longer treat stillbirths as 鈥渦nattended deaths,鈥� investigated by coroners. But anti-abortion activists fear the change would legalize 鈥渋nfanticide鈥� after babies are born. -
People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior launched the search for new names by ordering a specific racial slur stricken off the map nationwide as expeditiously as possible. -
California鈥檚 first-in-the-nation task force to identify reparations for African Americans voted to limit eligibility to those who can trace their lineage. -
A new initiative to reconsider discriminatory names on public features in California has led to the renaming of Patrick鈥檚 Point State Park in Humboldt County. The park is now called Sue-Meg State Park. The name change comes at the request of the Yurok tribe. -
Reimagine Oregon 鈥� a coalition of Black community leaders 鈥� says it's committed to holding state and local government accountable to Black Oregonians calling for widespread reform and improved opportunity. -
The group, designed to examine what reparations might look like and compile educational resources about slavery and its impact, met late last week. -
After the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Tuesday for the murder of George Floyd, leaders of Southern Oregon鈥檚 Black activist community reacted with a mixture of relief and hope that it will lead to broader change. -
The chairman of the California Legislative Black Caucus says he wants 鈥榥o more kneeling and social media posts. We鈥檝e had enough of the performative acts.鈥�
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Civil rights advocates reacted with elation, caution, to the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict. Law enforcement in Oregon issued statements calling the verdict a "measure of closure鈥� for George Floyd鈥檚 family. Portland declared a state of emergency.
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Mapping programs in Cascadia show how social and racial inequities extend to climate and pollution risks. -
Medicine is a science... a body is a body, and approaches to treatment are supposed to be roughly the same from patient to patient. But bias creeps into鈥� -
"All things being equal" may be a way to start a sentence, but it's usually not a reality in public policy. Decisions made by political leaders--who are鈥�
