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    Escasa vigilancia y pocas inspecciones dejan a agricultores menores de edad expuestos a pesticidas tóxicos

    Posted in Agriculture by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides

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    California’s child farmworkers: exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields

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    Los niños jornaleros de California: agotados, mal pagados y trabajando en campos de cultivo tóxicos

    Posted in Agriculture by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    Q+A: How Hawaiian princes brought surfing to Santa Cruz

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    Monterey County awards new $139 million jail health care contract

    Posted in Criminal Justice by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública

    Posted in Español by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    ‘Te acaban de llevar’

    Posted in Español by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process

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    Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades

    Posted in Economy/Business by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    Se estima que 80,000 personas en los condados de Monterey y Santa Cruz dependen de los beneficios del SNAP

    Posted in Features by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    Roughly 80,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties depend on SNAP benefits

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    When this California Spanish-language TV station closed, a news desert opened for Latino viewers

    Posted in Features by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    Immigration fears are harming public health

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    ‘They just took you away’

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    Five questions about the crisis in local news

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    Monterey County’s home kitchen program opens new opportunities

    Posted in Economy/Business by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    Do art. Be kind.

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    A young Salinas resident recounts her journey through the mental health system

    Posted in Education by Claudia Meléndez Salinas
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    California lawmakers may limit childhood sex abuse survivors’ ability to sue

    Posted in Features by Sara Tiano
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About Claudia Meléndez Salinas

Claudia Meléndez Salinas is an author, journalist, open water swimmer, and cat lover. | Claudia Meléndez Salinas es autora, periodista, nadadora de aguas abiertas, y aficionada a los gatos.

May 8, 2020

Bringing awareness of farmworkers’ plight, one caravan at a time

April 29, 2020

In the COVID Storm, Bookstores Try to Stay Afloat

April 14, 2020

The herd that wasn’t Beware of COVID misinformation

April 7, 2020

But first, the laundry The COVID-19 Chronicles: Philosophizing

March 24, 2020

Video: Distanciamiento social ¿Por qué es importante el distanciamiento físico?

February 13, 2020

Pablo goes to Washington Former farm worker delivers message to U.S. congressmen ahead of State of the Union address

February 6, 2020

Pity Jeanine Cummins "American Dirt' aftermath gets more interesting

January 30, 2020

Dear white people Please support writers of color

January 16, 2020

The Soledad Children How a group of families in the Salinas Valley improved the educational system for all Mexican Americans in California and beyond

December 12, 2019

Transplanted, the flower grows A new chapter in the storied life of El Teatro Campesino’s Pastorela

December 5, 2019

Dreaming of their future DACA recipients share hopes and fears while waiting for Supreme Court decision

November 7, 2019

A plan to overcome decades of neglect East Salinas residents see hope in the Alisal Vibrancy Plan

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