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Berkeley eyes county food inspections after audit exposes independent...
Berkeley is one of only four cities in the state to run a food inspection program separate from its county, but some government leaders appear open to changing that after a scathing audit revealed the...
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Incarcerated veterans share their poignant stories during ‘War Horse’ writing...
IN A PEACEFUL setting inside the chapel at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, 18 members from Veterans Group San Quentin who served in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines gathered to reflect,...
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Ranked choice voting strategy heats up in SF’s tight mayoral race as Election...
As the race for San Francisco mayor heads into the last leg, candidates are shifting their focus to navigate the city’s ranked choice voting system and developing tactics to use it to their...
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Art Deco darling Tamara de Lempicka retrospective lights up de Young Museum
One of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s most intriguing and impressively comprehensive exhibitions of 2024 is “Tamara de Lempicka,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the glamorous,...
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Survey finds most teachers want cellphone bans to create healthy learning...
Teachers overwhelmingly support restricting the student use of cellphones in the classroom, according to a survey by the Association of American Educators released earlier this month.The association...
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49ers pour millions into Santa Clara council races, outspending other special...
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS have sunk millions of dollars into November’s Santa Clara city elections to decide its future government.The San Francisco 49ers have spent the most money supporting who the...
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East Bay man sentenced to prison after attack on ‘easy target’ Asian woman
An East Bay man has been sentenced to prison after an Asian woman was robbed “because Asians are easy targets who don’t fight back,” according to federal prosecutors.Freddie Lee Davis III, 27, pleaded...
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Judge allows pro-Palestinian protesters to participate in antisemitism suit...
A federal judge has permitted pro-Palestinian student activists at the University of California, Berkeley to present their side of the story in a lawsuit filed against the school alleging antisemitism....
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Santa Cruz County residents encouraged to submit their complaints to Civil...
Santa Cruz County residents who have concerns about county or city departments or other gripes have a forum: the county’s Civil Grand Jury.Residents can submit a complaint at any time asking the Grand...
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20 years of voting data finds growing turnout gap between Salinas Valley,...
THE SALINAS VALLEY is the setting for fecund soil, labor rights movements and John Steinbeck novels.Squeezed into one 90-mile-long wedge between the Gabilan and Santa Lucia mountains, the valley’s...
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Trump, Harris and the 10 political Facebook pages spending the most to court...
Every four years, presidential candidates raise hundreds of millions of dollars that they pour into events, appearances, staffing, TV ads, and, increasingly, targeted social media campaigns.At the end...
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Berkeley man convicted of hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband receives...
A 44-year-old Berkeley man has been sentenced in state court to life in prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2022, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s...
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Best Bets: Big-screen Hitchcock, ‘Halloween Hoopla,’‘Dragon Lady,” ‘Brahms...
Double shot of Hitchcock: It’s Halloween, clearly a time for works by the master of suspense (and jump scares), director Alfred Hitchcock. On Thursday, Hitchcock films come to the big screen in San...
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California students want careers in AI. Here’s how colleges are meeting that...
Nathan Lim, a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, recently spent the summer working on an artificial intelligence tool to help students evaluate their senior project ideas for ethical and social...
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November 2024 author events: Celia Imrie, W. Bruce Cameron, L. John Harris,...
Debut novels, historical fiction, mysteries and memoirs are some of the new titles featured in book talks around the region this month. (To submit an event to the calendar, email...
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Flip of Cupertino City Council majority could have major implications for...
TWO OPPOSING CANDIDATE duos are trying to nab the two available Cupertino City Council seats to have power over one of the city’s most divisive issues — development.Councilmember Kitty Moore and former...
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Homecoming trouble: Student arrested for allegedly assaulting Cal High asst....
A student allegedly assaulted a California High School assistant principal during the school’s homecoming dance in San Ramon last week. San Ramon Valley Unified School District Superintendent CJ...
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‘No contract, no peace’: Over 80 arrested during SF hotel workers’ demonstration
Dozens of striking hotel workers in San Francisco were arrested Wednesday evening during a demonstration near Union Square, according to the union. Around 85 striking hotel workers and supporters were...
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Oakland hires new inspector general to oversee police operations and policies
The Oakland Police Department will have a new set of eyes overseeing its operations when recently hired Inspector General Zurvohn Maloof starts work next month. Maloof, who takes charge of the Office...
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SF supes pass ordinance requiring grocery stores to give 6 months’ notice of...
Supermarkets in San Francisco will have to give the city and residents at least six months’ notice before closing after the Board of Supervisors dusted off a 40-year-old ordinance that was vetoed at...
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