Zócalo Looks at Good and Bad Californians

Bad Californians Are Delaying Our Kids and Assaulting Farmworkers. Good Californians Are Launching Opera Companies.

Nuclear Infant Zombies? While nuclear power plants have seen their share of setbacks in the last couple of years (see Fukushima in Japan, Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin, and Southern California’s San Onofre), nukes remain central to America’s electric grid. Should they? Environmental Health News publisher Peter Dykstra goes through all the strikes against nuclear power and finds their record dubious.  But, he concludes, nukes stick around.

 

Why Farmworkers Get Raped. Ninety percent of female farmworkers say that sexual harassment is a major problem in the fields. Yet many women do …

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Zócalo Looks More Closely

A Proper Examination Of Obamacare, Of California Law, and A Geico Caveman

My Family’s Obamacare. Forget the talking points. Obamacare will vary for each family. Health-policy wonk Micah Weinberg explains how the Affordable Care Act will affect his family, dollar by dollar.

 

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Zócalo Is Up In the Air

Essays On Female Pilots, Female Rocket Scientists, and Male and Female Dinosaur Birds

Women Rule the Skies. In the wake of the July 6 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the face of Deborah Hersman, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), …

Zócalo Focuses on the Southwest

Imagining the Firefighters of Arizona, the Bicycles of Tomorrow's L.A., and the NSA-Wounded Firms of California

Nineteen Fire Shelters and Nineteen Deaths. Author Bill Streever takes us into the final moments of the 19 firefighters who, despite taking cover in their fire shelters, died in Arizona’s …

Zócalo Longs For the Past

Missing Antonio Villaraigosa, Missing Life as the White Girl, and Missing a Tolerable Climate

Why I’ll Miss Our Flawed Mayor. This Sunday will be Antonio Villaraigosa’s last day as mayor of Los Angeles. Zócalo’s publisher and executive director Gregory Rodriguez bids the mayor farewell …

It’s Protection Week at Zócalo

Protecting Our Children, Protecting Santa Monica, and Protecting My House

A Child Outside on Her Own—the Horror! It’s one thing to keep a watchful eye on your young children, but is it necessary to keep them inside and constantly within …