Monday, May 3, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Homeless residents Lana Howard and Mary Roy embrace in Sacramento’s River District on Friday, April 30, 2021.
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Lana Howard has been homeless for two decades. Still, the 75-year-old Texas native says she’d rather live on the streets of Sacramento than in a traditional, dorm-style homeless shelter, where she describes the conditions as like “hell.”
“When you’re in a shelter, you have no privacy,” said Howard, stopping for a moment in the city’s River District. “There’s nothing there that’s yours. Even your stuff isn’t yours. I’d rather be out here than be in there.”
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PHILADELPHIA - Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S. and the leading cause of cancer death, with about 80% of the total 154,000 deaths recorded each year caused by cigarette smoking. Black men are more likely to develop and die from lung cancer than persons of any other racial or ethnic group, pointing to severe racial disparities. For example, research has shown that Black patients are less likely to receive early diagnosis and life-saving treatments like surgery. Now researchers at Jefferson have found that a commonly used risk prediction model does not accurately identify high-risk Black patients who could gain life-saving benefit from early screening, and paves the way for improving screenings and guidelines. The research was published in
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Peruvian Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez reiterated the Government s commitment to building a more inclusive country, with the participation of all involved parties.
According to the Cabinet chief, this is an initiative of vital importance.
Remarks were made during the establishment of the multisectoral commission that will propose and oversee the implementation of measures aimed at the development of indigenous peoples. In this context of democratic transition, the establishment of this commission sends a powerful message to the new government, so that it takes into account the approaches and responses to the needs of indigenous peoples, she said.
The safe parking site near Miller Park, Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
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It s been a challenging time for small businesses since the pandemic began a little more than a year ago. Nationwide polling shows many have cut employee hours, significantly changed their business model, or have closed permanently; we hear from small business owners in Sacramento about how they re surviving COVID-19. Plus, a closer look at Project Roomkey happenings and new safe ground sites opening for unhoused residents and the anxieties about going out into society as pandemic restrictions continue to loosen.
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Chris Nichols on the first pair of city-sponsored safe ground sites opening for unhoused residents, and updates on Sacramento County s plans with Project Roomkey motel rooms