An illustration of high-speed broadband connections serving a city. (Image: kkssr, via Shutterstock)OPINION: The gaps between the connected and unconnected have never been clearer as California continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of access to online classes, employment opportunities and telehealth visits became more apparent when COVID-19 shut down our state.
Robert Klein at a November 2017 meeting of CIRM directors. (Photo: California Stem Cell Report)The man regarded as the father of the $3 billion California stem cell agency is thinking about changes in the program to help win voter approval of another $5 billion for the research program. They include a stronger requirement to make state-backed, stem cell therapies more affordable and accessible and to provide more cash for creating a greater stem cell work force in the Golden State.
In the Amazon rain forest of Acre, Brazil. (Photo: Andre Dib, Shutterstock)OPINION: Protecting our climate is very important to the indigenous people of the Amazon. In the Brazilian state of Acre, where I live, we’re already seeing terrible heat, floods and droughts that we never used to experience. That’s why cooperation with California to protect our forests is important to people here.
“Is California ready to fully implement the Affordable Care Act? The deadline to ramp up Covered California is Oct. 1 and the full kickoff for ACA is scheduled for Jan. 1. Are we ready?”