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Uber, Lyft Look To Kill California Law On App-Based Drivers

Californians are being asked decide if Uber, Lyft and other app-based drivers should remain independent contractors or be eligible for the benefits that come with being company employees.

Kathleen McAuliffe, a home care worker for Catholic Charities in a Portland, Maine, suburb, helps client John Gardner with his weekly chores. McAuliffe shops for Gardner's groceries, cleans his home and runs errands for him during her weekly visit.

With Workers In Short Supply, Seniors Often Wait Months For Home Health Care

Seniors, their families and states are eager to keep older Americans in their homes and out of nursing homes, but those efforts are often thwarted by worker shortages and low pay.

Dialysis clinics are often located in areas that are underserved by other forms of health care. And many already vaccinate their patients against other illnesses.

Racial Equity In Vaccination? Dialysis Centers Can Help With That

One smart way of getting the vaccine to communities at high risk of COVID-19: Take it to places many patients already visit three times a week.

Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden's incoming national security adviser, gives remarks in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 24.

Why Biden's National Security Adviser Plans To Focus On The U.S. Middle Class

"The work that we do abroad fundamentally has to connect to making the lives of working people better, safer, fairer" in America, Jake Sullivan tells NPR in an interview.

Two pedestrians use a crosswalk on El Cajon Boulevard in the Little Saigon District, May 11, 2021.

Five Years Into 'Vision Zero,' San Diego Streets Are Even Deadlier

San Diego has a goal of ending all traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2025. But progress has been slow, and many bike and pedestrian safety projects have yet to be built.

Chris Quinn, editor of cleveland.com and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is at the forefront of a crop of news editors taking a hard look at the implications of how they have defined news.

From Cleveland To Boston, Newsrooms Revisit Old Stories To Offer A 'Fresh Start'

The Boston Globe has begun letting people ask to revisit or remove past coverage of their actions that has since damaged their reputations. Here's how a similar effort has played out in Cleveland.

Artist Paul Rucker is creating a new multimedia work to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. That's when a thriving African American community was destroyed in a horrific act of violence that wiped out hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes. Above, an aerial view of Tulsa, Okla., Fowler & Kelly, 1918.

Artist's Black Wall Street Project Is About Tulsa 100 Years Ago — And Today

Paul Rucker's multimedia work tackles mass incarceration, lynching, police brutality and the ways America has been shaped by slavery. His latest marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

A U.S. flag flies outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7.

Opinion: The Fringe Of America's Fabric

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the upcoming presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in the wake of last week's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Brookdale Senior Living Solutions location in San Marcos in this Google Maps image from November 2020.

San Diego Joins State, 4 Other Counties In Suing Major Nursing Home Operator Over Ratings

California's attorney general and local officials, including San Diego, sued the nation's largest senior living home operator Monday.

The San Diego County Administration Building downtown is shown in this undated photo.

SD County Treasurer-Tax Collector Reopens Downtown Office

Customers can still pay their property taxes online, mail a penalty cancellation request form with payment and documentation, email a claim for an unclaimed property tax refund.

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