by Dianne Anderson Here comes the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act starting to wind down the Senate pipeline, set to reduce and cut urgent community health services, food stamps, public health and environmental oversight. Adding to what keeps advocates awake at night, the bill H.R.1 – also dubbed the Big Ugly Bill and Robin ...

If you aren’t careful when preparing your Thanksgiving meal, you can be passing food poisoning instead of just turkey, warns California Poison Control System (CPCS). Turkeys (as well as other poultry) may contain disease-causing germs that can lead to food poisoning. Don’t be one of the 30 percent of consumers found in a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) study ...

By Dianne Anderson Before there were laptops, and back when there was plenty of affordable food to go around, seniors would welcome a friendly face and an old-fashioned knock at the door to see if they needed any help. Today, reaching the sick and the shut-ins with vital life-saving information can be as easy as ...

By Dianne Anderson Seniors sweltering under scorching triple-digit heat are making the usual budget choices about what’s more important – buying food, or stretching their high cost medications by skipping doses, or turning on their air conditioner. Behind that problem of taking from one bill to put toward another is often the other priority, the ...

By Dianne Anderson Everyone who flocked to the Inland Empire over the past few years in search of more affordable housing was in for a big surprise. Housing is about as expensive in the High Desert as anywhere else in the region. Community advocate Sharon Green sees a lot of suffering. It’s hard enough for ...

By Dianne Anderson In the great economic divide, it seems that those with a lot of money in Orange County would prefer not to see those who have not – it’s called NIMBYISM, Not in My Back Yard, that keeps the homeless invisible. Through their newest project, Saving Our Sisters, the Orange County Section NCNW ...

By Dianne Anderson Coming out of the Thanksgiving feast, the Long Beach Black Infant Health Program and partners are teaming up to make sure local moms can make it through the holidays with a little less stress. For Gwendolyn Manning, there is no time to rest from now until Christmas. BIH moms receive food staples, ...

By Dianne Anderson It’s that time of year again when Love in the Mirror ramps up efforts for more volunteers, calling for the very young to the seniors, to come out and give in the form of socks, socks, and more socks. Socks are the most in-demand item for the homeless. “Our goal every year ...

By Dianne Anderson Not knowing what to believe or what to ignore kept Amber Spencer wrestling against the idea of the vaccine for a long time. She wasn’t exactly an anti-vaxxer, but she heard all the stories and saw all of the news, and hated putting anything in her body that wasn’t natural. The ethnicity ...