Ongoing Debate Over Digital Billboards at San Jose Airport
For 35 years, San Jose has banned any new billboards from going up. But in 2018, the city council voted to allow 22 new ones on public land. It’s been
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1 in 11 California homeowners struggle to pay mortgage
Nine months after launching a pandemic aid program to help cash-strapped renters avoid eviction, California began a new program to help homeowners save their properties from foreclosure or a forced
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Santa Clara sued by developer after killing affordable housing project
A San Francisco developer filed a lawsuit against Santa Clara today, accusing the city of violating state housing law and breaching their contract by killing the company’s affordable and workforce housing project
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Very few employers plan to drop vaccine mandate after Supreme Court ruling
More than one-third of U.S. employers still plan to implement a vaccine mandate despite the Supreme Court’s rejection of a federal rule that would have required workers to get shots
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Deadline Arrives for High-Risk Workers in Santa Clara County to Have COVID-19 Booster
The deadline has arrived for Santa Clara County workers in high-risk settings to have up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations, meaning booster shots. In late December, as the omicron variant was spreading fast,
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California’s rooftop solar war intensifies as regulators pull reform proposal
Regulators want to destroy rooftop solar to protect the obscene profits of utility companies, one side charges. The other side claims rooftop solar owners are circling the wagons to protect
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COVID gun store shutdowns illegal, rules Court in California
Two California counties violated the Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, a
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Elizabeth Holmes signals bid to get guilty verdicts tossed, possibly over jury issues
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has filed a motion indicating her legal team is looking for problems in the jury that convicted her in an attempt to get her guilty verdicts
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Federal authorities have a tool to battle fentanyl dealers that California lacks
The Craigslist ad offered “Roxy board short,” street slang for oxycodone pills. Federal prosecutors say it was posted by Tobin Oliver Wood of Costa Mesa, who allegedly gave the drugs
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Forty Santa Clara County firefighters want exemptions from COVID booster mandate
About 40 firefighters with the the short-staffed Santa Clara County Fire Department have submitted requests to be exempted from a new booster mandate, putting their bosses and union representatives in a
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