Lois Kazakoff

By Cheryl Wilson, Special to CalMatters Cheryl Wilson, is president and CEO of St. Paul’s Senior Services, parent company of St. Paul’s PACE of San Diego, and serves as vice chair of the board of directors at CalPACE, California’s association of PACE providers. Eight in ten deaths from COVID-19 nationwide have been among adults aged 65 years and older.

European Union leaders met Monday to discuss the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United States’ most important security alliance. President Trump has declared NATO obsolete. His recent actions seemed designed to ensure it is. NATO, which has shaped the political world order in the 70 years following World War II, is fractious. It is the presence of the United States, NATO’s most militarily powerful member, that has kept the alliance together.

By Lois Kazakoff on June 6, 2011 at 4:19 PM By Michelle Cale The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a three-judge federal court order last month requiring California to reduce its prison population in two years. Each year, it costs taxpayers about $48,000 to keep a woman incarcerated in the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. And what do we get for our investment? Not rehabilitation.