Chris Bowling and Cassandra Garibay
Chris Bowling is a contributor on Flatwater Free Press.
Cassandra Garibay is a Bay Area-based engagement reporter working on community-sourced investigations.
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Food insecurity reaches near-pandemic levels as economic strain deepens across America
Federal Reserve researchers find rising hunger, declining financial confidence, and growing hardship concentrated among lower-income families, households with children, and SNAP recipients.
Vermont becomes first state to ban weed-killing pesticide paraquat
The legislation passed with broad bipartisan support in Vermont's general assembly after extensive medical research linked the pesticide to a significantly increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
The ripple effects of organizing against data centers
One city’s success in stopping a data center grew into a regional movement that’s notching wins across the San Gabriel Valley.
The conservative ‘plan’ to dismantle public schools is entering the home stretch
The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.
The roots of the US-Russia rivalry
Russia-U.S. relations became most visible during their Cold War confrontation and are now dangerously dysfunctional. Long-established suspicion and overlapping interests have shaped periods of cooperation and competition for centuries, a cycle that risks repeating itself indefinitely.