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4 days, 16 hours ago

How fighting affordable housing nearly bankrupted one of America’s richest towns

LA Times

On a Sunday afternoon a few years ago, about a dozen neighbors held a meeting with Craig Hughes, who was then the mayor of Portola Valley. If Hughes and other town leaders produced a state-mandated affordable housing plan that wasn’t to the residents’ liking, they should expect a battery of litigation that could lead to Portola Valley’s bankruptcy. But Portola …

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5 days, 16 hours ago

New tests find ‘hidden’ pesticides, in more California weed brands. Regulators ignored warnings

LA Times

For Santa Cruz County cannabis farmers battling infestations of aphids, one chemical in particular worked wonders. “If California can’t get this right, it would be a tremendous tragedy,” a Trinity County cannabis consultant, John Brower, complained this fall to the advisory board that guides the state Department of Cannabis Control. The analysis checked for more than 290 pesticides beyond the …

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1 month ago

Column: Why California’s favorite bagel shop is defending fossil fuels

LA Times

Boichik Bagels employee Iris Gonzalez holds a pumpernickel bagel with lox and a tomato slice at the Boichik factory in Berkeley on Nov. 14. A New York Times food critic called her bagels “some of the finest New York-style bagels I’ve ever tasted.” So when Winston said the gas tax would hurt her plans to expand, people listened. Boichik Bagels …

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3 months, 1 week ago

John Madden is gone but his family is keeping his NFL gameday legacy alive

LA Times

The best seat in the house is still reserved for John Madden. “He volunteered to be Roger’s football guy,” son Mike Madden said. “He’d call Andy in the middle of a game,” said Madden’s widow, Virginia. “Coach Madden would get a text on occasion from the broadcasters, and they’d want to know what screen they were on,” Mattos said. They …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

UC Berkeley’s new chancellor plans to ‘question the status quo’ as he takes over

LA Times

UC Berkeley may be best known as the birthplace of the student free speech movement and for its ranking as one of the world’s top public research universities. Before 9,000 new students at their welcome ceremony Thursday at Haas Pavilion, Lyons highlighted that “grand scale” of campus innovation and entrepreneurship and “the Berkeley way” of questioning the status quo to …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Power-hungry AI data centers are raising electric bills and blackout risk

LA Times

Near the Salton Sea, a company plans to build a data center to support artificial intelligence that would cover land the size of 15 football fields and require power that could support 425,000 homes. In Santa Clara — the heart of Silicon Valley — electric rates are rising as the municipal utility spends heavily on transmission lines and other infrastructure …

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5 months, 1 week ago

‘Year of the lesbian’: How queer women are breaking San Francisco’s doom loop

LA Times

It was Queer Prom night at Mother, a lesbian and femme queer bar in the Mission district, and the dance floor was crowded, hot and sweaty. Spanyol’s decision to open the business in early 2023 couldn’t have come at a better time for San Francisco’s queer community — and the city itself. They’ve started surf clubs and lesbian kickball leagues, …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Revelations of possible radioactive dumping around the Bay Area trigger new testing at parks

LA Times

Beyond a chain-link fence topped with spiraled barbed wire, swaying coastal grasses conceal a cache of buried radioactive waste and toxic pesticides from a bygone chemical plant. According to DTSC archival records, Stauffer discarded industrial waste at several Bay Area sites — including present-day César Chávez Park and the Albany Bulb, two popular parks built atop former municipal landfills. Several …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

How a ‘death trap’ for fish in California’s water system is limiting the pumping of supplies

LA Times

Giant pumps hum inside a warehouse-like building, pushing water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta into the California Aqueduct, where it travels more than 400 miles south to the taps of over half the state’s population. “We want to save those fish, return them back out into the delta.” Water passes from Clifton Court Forebay through an inlet to the …

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8 months ago

Phish fans are famously dedicated. What happens when they enter the Sphere?

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Adele, Mariah Carey and Garth Brooks tower over the Las Vegas Strip, peering out from billboards advertising their various casino residencies. As Phish jammed, the Sphere’s screens became an art show, taking the audience through flowing streams of color and simple dots of light, around an enchanted lake and a field of psychedelic trees, and through a …

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8 months ago

New scientific interventions are here to fight climate change. But they aren’t silver bullets

LA Times

Behind a chain-link fence in a corner of San Joaquin County sits one of California’s — and perhaps the world’s — best hopes for combating climate change. “And it’s really important to recognize that, because it’s just a Band-Aid, we really don’t want it to take attention away from decarbonization.” While direct air capture and aerosol injections do show potential, …

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8 months ago

Here’s how Phish is using the Sphere's technology to give fans something completely different

The Independent

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9 months, 1 week ago

Haunted by legacy of police misconduct, Oakland grapples for answers to street crime surge

LA Times

Along gracious, leafy College Avenue, you can luxuriate with a traditional Thai massage, slip into an artisanal cocktail at an Italian spot or claim a grain-free treat for your canine companion at a charming Mediterranean cafe. Yet his car has been broken into three times in two years, and he acknowledges he is “much more vigilant than ever was before.” …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How 600-plus California inmates got more than 11,000 years cut off their prison sentences

LA Times

Jacque Wilson, a San Francisco public defender, left, and father, Mack Wilson, center, advocated for a change to California’s felony murder law that helped get their brother and son, Neko Wilson, right, out of jail. “This is really tangible — not only real impact on the individuals who were incarcerated under this sentence, but also their families and the rest …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Is a four-day workweek as good as it sounds? California employees share what it’s really like

LA Times

It’s after noon on a recent Wednesday, and the kitchen and patio at ThredUp’s Oakland headquarters are packed. “I think we’re going to see more interest in this from the policy side, as well as from employers that are looking for ways to keep workers, to attract new workers and to keep their workers healthier.” The snacks are free, but …

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1 year, 8 months ago

New BOJ head says banks stable, rules out major policy shift

Associated Press

TOKYO — The new governor of Japan’s central bank signaled Monday that he plans no drastic changes in its ultra-low interest rate policy, sticking to earlier messaging on the topic. Japan’s central bank is seeing its first leadership change in a decade, at a time when inflationary pressures around the world remain a risk and central banks are fighting back …

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1 year, 8 months ago

What happened to Shintaro Fujinami, Shohei Ohtani's old rival?

LA Times

Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Shintaro Fujinami delivers during a spring game March 25. The first eight runs the Angels scored in their 13-1 victory over the Oakland Athletics were charged to Shintaro Fujinami, a flamethrowing right-hander who was once considered Ohtani’s equal. “I think the sample size was too small for me to comment.” Ohtani and Fujinami first met at …

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1 year, 9 months ago

San Francisco synagogue confronts shooting, hate crime

LA Times

Rabbi Bentziyon Pil’s storefront synagogue is easy to miss, just a corner shop with boxes of halvah stacked in the window. Rabbi Bentziyon Pil raises the Torah during prayers at the Schneerson Jewish Center. Jacob Hallovany, left, Junior Rabbi Alon Chanukov and Rabbi Bentziyon Pil pray at the Schneerson Jewish Center. Pil and his congregants were so certain no one …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Leaving prison for many means homelessness and overdose. California hopes to change that

LA Times

Lee Reed, who in July was released after 25 years behind bars, at the administrative office of Transitions Clinic Network in San Francisco. “It’s always helpful to the state budget when California can draw down federal dollars,” said Susan Shelley, vice president of communications for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn., a nonprofit lobbying organization opposed to raising taxes. And, if …

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1 year, 11 months ago

2023 New Year Resolutions for Asia’s Biggest Economies

The Diplomat

Asia’s big economies failed to fire during 2022, weighed down by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and resulting self-imposed restrictions on economic activity, together with rising interest rates and slowing growth globally. In its latest “World Economic Outlook” report, the IMF projected GDP growth for Asia’s second-largest economy of 2.1 percent in 2022 but just 0.9 percent in 2023, below the …

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1 year, 11 months ago

With opioid overdoses still on the rise, more regular people are carrying Narcan

LA Times

Monica Clayton was standing in line at a Burger King on Market Street in downtown San Francisco just before 7 a.m. when a frantic man ran into the restaurant. Awed, Clayton — who is 36 and in recovery from meth addiction — approached a first responder and asked, “What is that stuff?” It’s naloxone, also known as Narcan, a lifesaving …

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2 years ago

A holiday lights display was better than a résumé for this Silicon Valley exec

LA Times

On a chilly December evening, 54-year-old engineer Mark Robins opened a laptop inside his son’s room to demonstrate the software he uses to control the 10,000 lights that adorn his house and yard. “I like building things, and then if you can build something that other people can appreciate and enjoy and get some happiness out of, that’s even better.” …

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2 years ago

Yen soars to 4-month high after surprise BOJ policy tweak

Live Mint

The yen surged to a four-month peak against the dollar on Tuesday after the Bank of Japan stunned markets by deciding to review its yield curve control policy and widen the trading band for the 10-year government bond yield. While it kept broad policy settings unchanged - pinning short-term JGB yields at -0.1% and the 10-year yield around zero - …

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2 years ago

How San Francisco fell behind on housing its homeless population

LA Times

Reyna De La Cruz had looked at 15 apartments, at least. In May, the San Francisco Housing Authority had issued De La Cruz an emergency housing voucher. Efrain Sandoval, a program manager with Catholic Charities SF, visits Reyna De La Cruz at the camper where she lives with her three children in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. To find a home, …

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How fighting affordable housing nearly bankrupted one of America’s richest towns

New tests find ‘hidden’ pesticides, in more California weed brands. Regulators ignored warnings

Column: Why California’s favorite bagel shop is defending fossil fuels

John Madden is gone but his family is keeping his NFL gameday legacy alive

UC Berkeley’s new chancellor plans to ‘question the status quo’ as he takes over

Power-hungry AI data centers are raising electric bills and blackout risk

‘Year of the lesbian’: How queer women are breaking San Francisco’s doom loop

Revelations of possible radioactive dumping around the Bay Area trigger new testing at parks

How a ‘death trap’ for fish in California’s water system is limiting the pumping of supplies

Phish fans are famously dedicated. What happens when they enter the Sphere?

New scientific interventions are here to fight climate change. But they aren’t silver bullets

Here’s how Phish is using the Sphere's technology to give fans something completely different

Haunted by legacy of police misconduct, Oakland grapples for answers to street crime surge

How 600-plus California inmates got more than 11,000 years cut off their prison sentences

Is a four-day workweek as good as it sounds? California employees share what it’s really like

New BOJ head says banks stable, rules out major policy shift

What happened to Shintaro Fujinami, Shohei Ohtani's old rival?

San Francisco synagogue confronts shooting, hate crime

Leaving prison for many means homelessness and overdose. California hopes to change that

2023 New Year Resolutions for Asia’s Biggest Economies

With opioid overdoses still on the rise, more regular people are carrying Narcan

A holiday lights display was better than a résumé for this Silicon Valley exec

Yen soars to 4-month high after surprise BOJ policy tweak

How San Francisco fell behind on housing its homeless population