Oakland is building a new phone app for its homeless residents
As Oakland contends with the human tragedy of its homelessness crisis, the city is getting an app that officials hope will make life just a little easier for people living
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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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Business faces tricky path navigating post-Trump politics
For more than a half-century, the voice emerging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s monolithic, Beaux Arts-styled building near the White House was predictable: It was the embodiment of American
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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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Bay Area businessmen charged with $18 million in federal tax evasion
The president and corporate counsel for a Bay Area aggregate recycling business have been indicted on charges of conspiring to hide more than $18 million in taxable income from the
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Amazon gains enough votes to defeat union drive at Alabama warehouse
Amazon has gained enough votes to defeat a union drive that would have established the company’s first US union, according to an ongoing tally of the vote. The vote count
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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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Santa Clara County Supes Consider Waiving Additional Fees for Small Businesses
Small businesses in Santa Clara County may be getting another fee waived from the county to offset impacts of the pandemic. On Tuesday, county supervisors will vote on waiving the
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Biden administration disburses 25 million more stimulus payments to Americans
The Biden administration said on Wednesday that 25 million more stimulus payments worth a total of $36 billion had been sent out to Americans from the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief
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