Opinions

• A call for a comprehensive audit of the EDD
  

  24 Jul 2020

  Due to the Coronavirus and Governor Gavin Newsom’s shutdown of businesses, over 6.6 Million California residents have filed for unemployment benefits. Many are experiencing long wait times, no response, and have still not received the help they so desperately need. That’s why I have called for a comprehensive audit of the EDD. If you or anyone you know have applied for benefits since March, we want to hear from you so we can share testimony with the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Click here to complete a survey and add your name to the list of those supporting the audit. If … Continue reading →

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• Ripple effects form a wave affecting the food system
  

  17 Jun 2020

  When the CSA box arrived on our doorstep the other night, it caused me to reflect on how much our lives had changed in the past three months. Like many Californians, we subscribed to a community-supported agriculture service for the first time, prompted by two imperatives—to reduce our trips to the supermarket during the pandemic and to support local and regional farmers. As we shelter at home to try to avoid the novel coronavirus, my wife and I have made other adjustments to the new reality, adjustments many others have made. We have for the first time ordered groceries via … Continue reading →

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• Commentary: COVID-19 leaves no part of food system untouched
  

  22 Apr 2020

  It’s hard to imagine without seeing it: people standing in lines around the block, their faces covered, anxiously waiting to enter the grocery store to buy staples such as pasta, shelf-stable vegetables, meat, dairy and, of course, toilet paper. At the same time, thousands of pounds of milk are being dumped and eggs cracked, and fields are being plowed, as markets disappear almost overnight. All this, while cars wait for miles at food banks as millions now out of work struggle to put food on the table. This is the new reality of COVID-19, the pandemic that our Food Foresight … Continue reading →

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