Restaurants deserve break from fees during COVID-19 crisis
t shouldn’t take a lawsuit for Bay Area restaurants to receive a break from liquor license and health permit fees assessed by the state and counties during COVID-19 health orders.
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Bay Area Counties Announce Plan to Reduce Homelessness by 75% by 2024
Local and state leaders, housing experts, businesses and social justice advocates from all nine Bay Area counties have united to create a Regional Action Plan that aims to house 75%
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California consumer confidence back to pre-pandemic levels
California shoppers are feeling the best they have since the coronavirus slammed the economy, two surveys show. The Chapman University-Claremont McKenna College California Consumer Sentiment Index jumped a record 37%
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Why $13 billion made by 20 real estate tycoons looks small
U.S. real estate tycoons couldn’t keep up with their billionaire peers in the pandemic era. Let’s ponder data from my trusty spreadsheet tracking the ups and downs in the combined
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COVID real estate: Silicon Valley office market starts to heal
Silicon Valley’s office market remained feeble during the first three months of 2021, but hope has emerged that the battered sector may begin to recover this year from coronavirus-linked ailments,
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Will Apple Arcade’s big additions broaden gaming services’ appeal?
Apple Arcade expanded its offerings this month in a big way. The evolving service added more than 30 games at the beginning of April, and the offerings feature heavy hitters
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Scooters, e-bikes finally making their way to Fremont streets
Scooters are coming to Fremont, for real this time. And e-bikes, too. After some hitches in efforts to get “micromobility” options rolling in Fremont, including a ditched deal with Lime,
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PG&E: Several execs captured pay raises in 2020, SEC docs show
Several top PG&E executives harvested hefty increases in their pay during 2020, a year in which the company emerged from bankruptcy and caused a fatal wildfire in Shasta County, a
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Rental assistance is on the way. Will it be enough?
More than a year after the pandemic idled millions of workers and slashed household incomes, help at long last is coming to low-income Californians facing a mountain of back rent.
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Bay Area AAPI Community Calling on Fellow Members To Report Their Experiences
With the violence against the Asian Pacific Islander Community seemingly on the rise, an array of groups are calling for a stop to the attacks. Now, many of them are
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