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Since 2017, veterinary prices have increased about 67%, much faster than overall consumer prices, which rose about 38% during the same period. Higher operating expenses, pharmaceutical prices and general inflation are all contributing to bigger bills. capitalandmain.com/why-so-ma…
Democrats are hoping voters’ concerns about the rising cost of living will help them win statewide in November — or at least flip some House seats, chief among them Florida’s 27th Congressional District. capitalandmain.com/florida-m…
On March 28, Tucker Collins, 19, lost an eye from an injury sustained at a protest against federal immigration enforcement. capitalandmain.com/he-went-t…
Last year saw the worst snowpack in recent history in the Pecos River’s headwaters. The last two winters are part of a decades-long drought exacerbated by climate change that has stressed water planning across the Southwest. capitalandmain.com/the-pecos…
This year marks the first time two Vietnamese Americans are running to represent Orange County, which includes Little Saigon, the largest concentration of people of Vietnamese ancestry outside of Vietnam. capitalandmain.com/two-child…
Jackie Ryan admits she never really got the premise of Destination Crenshaw, the much-heralded outdoor art project being constructed around the path of a light-rail line running down Crenshaw Boulevard. capitalandmain.com/in-crensh…
One of the biggest issues shaping the energy debate today is the construction and use of data centers for artificial intelligence. There are nearly 400 data centers operating, planned or under construction in Texas. capitalandmain.com/in-texas-…
Records obtained by Capital & Main offer a rare inside look at how a large landlord executed a “cash for keys” operation, a widespread strategy that has reshaped gentrifying neighborhoods across California. capitalandmain.com/tenant-la…
Oil production in New Mexico has risen dramatically in the past decade, jumping from just over 12 million barrels in July 2016 to more than 75 million this July. capitalandmain.com/in-new-me…
Latino voters, writ large, have soured on President Trump, and on Republicans. They are unhappy about the failed promise of an economic turnaround, and the severity of immigration enforcement. capitalandmain.com/latino-vo…
The California Federation of Teachers and the 310,000 strong California Teachers Association are rallying their members and using their money to help get out the vote in favor of Prop 3. capitalandmain.com/educators…
Community efforts to block data centers have come up against a formidable obstacle in the City of Industry, a sprawl of industrial warehouses and commercial manufacturing centers that snakes across 12 miles of the San Gabriel Valley. capitalandmain.com/san-gabri…
Declining snowpacks plus climate stress have led to less water in one of New Mexico's iconic waterways: the Pecos River.
As climate change dries New Mexico, and the Pecos River runs ever lower, one of the biggest drivers of that change is the 75,000 square miles of oil and gas wells across 55 counties in New Mexico and Texas: the Permian Basin oilfield. capitalandmain.com/its-a-bea…
A coal-fired power plant in northwestern Colorado was scheduled to close for good at the end of 2025 amid pressure from environmental advocates and state officials. But on Dec. 30, Energy Secretary Chris Wright ordered it to keep burning coal. capitalandmain.com/aging-coa…
On most evenings, Maricela Morales runs with her 18-year-old son in West Long Beach, a neighborhood that is less than a half-mile from two fumigation facilities that regularly spew a toxic pesticide called methyl bromide into the air. capitalandmain.com/pesticide…
The Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on immigrants has prompted an eight-day pilgrimage led by faith-based groups from an immigration detention center in California’s high desert to the downtown Los Angeles Federal Building. capitalandmain.com/faith-lea…
L.A.’s ports remain the region’s biggest polluter. Nearby residents exposed to pollution are compensated with funding for parks and asthma clinics, paid into a court-ordered fund by the very same polluters endangering the health of locals. capitalandmain.com/a-rising-…
