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Silicon Valley transit services off track, state audit finds — what’s being...
SANTA CLARA COUNTY’S main transportation agency needs to change how it is governed and improve its transparency with the people it serves, a recent audit reveals. The California State Auditor released...
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Review: Aurora Theatre’s ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ amusingly, pointedly explores...
The real-life background to “The Lifespan of a Fact,” a short, swift-moving and very talky (in a good way) drama now in a riveting production at Aurora Theatre Company: In 2002, 16-year-old Levi...
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Food Network star Tyler Florence confronted by animal activists at book...
Celebrity chef Tyler Florence was confronted by animal rights activists during a cookbook signing in the city of Napa. On at least three different occasions during the Sunday event, activists...
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So many ways to get to the Marin County Fair, you might just want to leave...
Free buses, late trains and even bicycle valet service will be on a menu of transportation options to persuade Marin County Fair visitors to leave their cars at home this year. The fair runs July 3...
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Saddle up for music, rodeo and fun as 98th Willits Frontier Days heads to...
The 98th annual Willits Frontier Days continues in Willits this Friday through July 6. The event, which features the longest-running continuous rodeo in California, celebrates American Western...
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Pollution response to sunken vessel Aurora in Delta waterway completed,...
Contractors removed thousands of gallons of oil and hazardous waste from a decommissioned cruise ship that sank and began leaking fuel in the Delta waterway in San Joaquin County last month....
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Santa Cruz adopts three-year strategic plan to cut homelessness, boost...
The Santa Cruz City Council has unanimously approved a program to reduce housing insecurity and homelessness in the city. Through various initiatives, the Homelessness Response Strategic Plan aims to...
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Flares, fires and spills: CoCo civil grand jury calls for better public...
Right now, Contra Costa County residents can go to a website and opt-in to receive text or email notifications if hazardous materials are released from the county’s nine industrial chemical processing...
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Half Moon Bay council approves farmworker housing plan, rejects calls to...
Affordable housing for the community’s senior farmworkers will move forward, the Half Moon Bay City Council decided this week, rejecting efforts to delay the project. Councilmembers listened to the...
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Why teacher-activists should be welcomed in U.S. classrooms, not feared and...
TEACHER-ACTIVISTS INFUSE social justice into their classrooms, and in today’s divisive political times, they are wrongly penalized, criminalized, and sent packing from the classroom. As a lifelong...
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The Arc SF creates online community for developmentally disabled individuals
When COVID-19 interrupted the work of The Arc San Francisco, a nonprofit serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, its staff quickly had to find ways to make sure members were...
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Animal rights group DxE ramps up campaign against chef Tyler Florence,...
When confronted by animal rights activists at Sunday cookbook signing, celebrity chef Tyler Florence yelped and fled towards a nearby building. But the Food Network star couldn’t escape for long, as...
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Santa Clara County loses top election official before November races amid...
Santa Clara County’s top elections official is bowing out four months before the November election and shortly after her office landed in the hot seat over a historic recount. After nearly 30 years...
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Biden crashes, Trump lies: Scholars weigh in on a campaign-defining...
With four months to go until Election Day, the earliest-ever general election debate featured two presidents — one current, one former — and a lot of bitter personal attacks. Joe Biden’s universally...
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Officials break ground on affordable housing development in SF’s Sunset...
Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Joel Engardio have joined housing developers to celebrate the groundbreaking of an affordable housing development in San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood. Construction...
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Giants Hall of Fame player Orlando Cepeda dies at 86, was ‘true gentleman and...
Orlando Cepeda, the San Francisco Giants’ Hall of Famer and 10-time All-Star, died at his Concord home Friday night, the Giants said. He was 86. “Our beloved Orlando passed away peacefully at home...
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Supreme Court ruling in homelessness case draws reaction from SF, advocacy...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled 6-3 on the contentious Grants Pass, Oregon, case that placing restrictions on unhoused people and where they can sleep is not “cruel and unusual” criminalization...
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Sailing through history: Oakland harbor tours offer unique peek into port’s...
NOVELIST GERTRUDE STEIN was wrong when she said there’s no there in Oakland. There’s definitely a very big “there” there called the Port of Oakland. While officials bicker back and forth over what to...
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Legislation advances to make state’s wildfire technology research department...
The California State Assembly Emergency Management committee has advanced legislation to make the Office of Wildfire Technology Research and Development a permanent department under Cal Fire. The...
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Silicon Valley politicians give back donations linked to Duong family...
Recent FBI raids into Bay Area properties owned and run by members of the politically-connected Duong family bring to light the yearslong allegations of illegal political donations into Silicon...
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