Bay Area employers wait and see on mandatory COVID vaccines
Of the many problems confronting Bay Area companies as they move out of pandemic lockdowns and into the workplaces of the future, one issue is proving especially thorny: Do they
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Disneyland & Co. reopenings can’t fix 58% of California job cuts
Buzz: The reopening of Disneyland’s theme parks and its tourist-attraction peers across California aren’t a miracle cure for the state’s battered job market. That’s because industries outside of leisure and
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Biden plan for cleaner power system faces daunting obstacles
If the nation is to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of cutting America’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade, it will have to undertake a
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‘Ghost Gun’ plans can be posted online after U.S. appeals court ruling
Plans for so-called ghost guns can be posted online after a federal appeals court overturned an injunction blocking the move and reinstated a Trump administration order that opened the door
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Why were the Bay Area’s biggest cities denied key housing funds?
The mayors of the Bay Area’s three largest cities are pushing back after they were denied key affordable housing funds — a shutout they say could cost the region 3,000
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Risky California public bank plan would duplicate services
This week, the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee will consider the state’s creating an unnecessary and unwieldy government-run banking system that carries enormous financial risk to Californians. Proponents of Assembly
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Activists Work to Get More Vaccinated in South Bay’s Hard-Hit Latino Community
There is growing concern about the vaccine hesitancy, especially among Santa Clara County’s Latino community. Advocates said it is clear more and more people in that community are declining to
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California’s Public Universities to Require COVID-19 Vaccine
Two of the nation’s largest university systems say they intend to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on University of California and California State University campuses this
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Bay Area Activist, Police Say Chauvin Verdict Should Push for Police Reform
Even as celebrations began following Tuesday’s guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, the overall focus turned back to nationwide police reform and what this verdict could mean in
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Family of South Bay Man Killed by Officer React to Chauvin Verdict
While some would say there is a troublingly long list of people who have been shot and killed by police, there are very few have ever seen the officers charged
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