Over 3,000 workers at Alameda Health System (AHS) went back to work October 12 after holding a five-day strike. Healthcare workers from seven different facilities, including Highland Hospital, walked out on Wednesday, October 7. Members in the different...
Monday, October 12 is Indigenous People’s Day, but the longstanding American tradition is to celebrate it as Columbus Day. The official change of name was marked in 1989 with a decree by the state of South Dakota. This has created controversy for some. But does it...
Democrats and Republicans in Congress still won’t pass another so-called stimulus bill. Even though the first stimulus passed back in March went mostly to banks and corporations, it still provided some needed relief. But Congress has been nit-picking for months over...
Last month, on September 11, President Trump announced on Twitter that he had arranged a peace treaty making Bahrain “the second Arab country to make peace with Israel in 30 days.” This announcement came just after a similar treaty signed by the United Arab Emirates...
Early this month the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, published his view of the state of the world, and he doesn’t think it’s pretty. “In today’s world, many forms of injustice persist fed by a profit-based economic model that does not hesitate to...
