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www.ocregister.com
9 months ago
East Bay (California)

First dip in California rents in 2 years comes as vacancies hit 2-year high

Survey says looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.Buzz: California renters are finally getting a break: a 24-month streak of rising rents is over and the number of empty units has hit a two-year high.
The Mercury News
1 year ago
Silicon Valley food

60 Black-owned Bay Area restaurants, bakeries, coffeehouses, caterers and wineries

The Bay Area is home to a rich tapestry of restaurants and other food-based enterprises owned by Black chefs and entrepreneurs.Here's a list by geographic area of many in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.Know of others?Let us know via the comment field at the end of the article and we'll add them to the list.
Funcheap
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFMOMA's "Free First Thursdays" Free Museum Day for Locals (2023)

Home " **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, Free Museum Day, In Person, San FranFREEsco

All residents of the nine Bay Area counties are invited to spend a day at the museum on us!From 1-8 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month, Bay Area residents can enjoy SFMOMA's galleries filled with lively and inspiring art and related events - for free.
Funcheap
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFMOMA's "Free First Thursdays" Free Museum Day for Locals (2023)

Home " **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, Free Museum Day, In Person, San FranFREEsco

All residents of the nine Bay Area counties are invited to spend a day at the museum on us!From 1-8 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month, Bay Area residents can enjoy SFMOMA's galleries filled with lively and inspiring art and related events - for free.
Funcheap
1 year ago
San Francisco

SFMOMA's "Free First Thursdays" Free Museum Day for Locals (2023)

Home " **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, Free Museum Day, In Person, San FranFREEsco

All residents of the nine Bay Area counties are invited to spend a day at the museum on us!From 1-8 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month, Bay Area residents can enjoy SFMOMA's galleries filled with lively and inspiring art and related events - for free.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
San Francisco

Prosecutors charge man with raping women in San Jose and San Ramon

SAN JOSE - A Mountain House man has been charged with raping women in San Jose and San Ramon, after rape test kits linked both sexual assaults, according to court records.
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Los Angeles Times
9 months ago
California

Bay Area refinery fallout does not pose significant health risk, authorities say

Bay Area public health authorities announced Thursday that heavy metals released by a refinery in November do not pose a significant risk to gardeners or residents in the city of Martinez, according to new laboratory testing.On Nov. 24 and 25, Martinez Refining Co., an 880-acre refinery on the northern edge of the city, released up to 24 tons of spent catalyst, powdery white dust filled with chemicals used to break crude oil into finished petroleum products.
SFBay
2 years ago
Coronavirus

Wastewater samples suggest BA.2 variant accounts for half of county cases - SFBay

Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are still declining in Contra Costa County, health officials told the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, though new strain BA.2 is appearing in greater quantities in county wastewater samples.
www.mercurynews.com
10 months ago
Parenting

Opinion: California child care providers deserve to be made whole

The majority of working families know the weekday routine all too well.They wake the kids up, rush to get everyone ready, sit in traffic and then drop the kids off at child care or school and head to the office.While every family's morning may look different, the majority of us depend on and trust someone else to care for our children and expect them to receive the same level of nurturing and support they receive at home.
The Mercury News
10 months ago
Silicon Valley food

Declaring it a public nuisance, officials revoke Marin nightclub' permit

George's Nightclub in downtown San Rafael has been shut down, for now.The City Council has rejected an appeal by Esly Figueroa, owner of the venue at 842 Fourth St.In April, Figueroa contested the city's decision to revoke a conditional use permit that allowed it to operate as a nightclub.In her appeal, Figueroa said the city has been targeting her business since a double homicide near the venue two years ago.
sfist.com
2 years ago
San Francisco

SF Finally Conducts Delayed Homeless Census, Rest of Bay Area to Finish Theirs Tonight

How much has homelessness increased during the pandemic?
We'll have hard numbers soon, as Bay Area cities conduct their first official homeless census in three years.
The Mercury News
10 months ago
Silicon Valley food

Concord, San Jose: Would you sign a waiver to eat spicy chicken at new Angry Chickz restaurants?

Angry Chickz, a SoCal-based chain that's fired up about Nashville-style chicken, has just doubled its Bay Area footprint with new restaurants in Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties.These are the third and fourth Angry Chickz locations for the the Bay Area.The first opened on San Jose's Saratoga Avenue during the pandemic and the second in Brentwood earlier this year.
KQED
11 months ago
California

Alameda County's Eviction Moratorium Ends Saturday. What's Next for Renters (and Landlords)? | KQED

"I think we are going to see a lot of displacement, and this is going to affect lower-income community members more than those with higher incomes," said Michelle Starratt, housing director for Alameda County."We looked very closely at what was happening in surrounding communities like Contra Costa and Santa Clara County when their eviction moratoriums ended last fall," she said.
KQED
1 year ago
California

Que hacer si su hogar sufrio danos por las tormentas de California | KQED

El propietario debe informarle sobre las reparaciones que se harán y darle un plazo.Si le siguen rechazando o no le contestan, ahí es cuando debe llamar al gobierno, dijo Simon-Weisberg.También puede reportar los daños a la ciudad
Muchas ciudades de California cuentan con organismo que hace cumplir las normas de la ley estatal de vivienda.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
Public health

Contra Costa County issues new health order requiring masks for staff in skilled nursing facilities

Contra Costa County has issued a new health order requiring staff in skilled nursing facilities to continue wearing masks to protect elderly patients from being infected with COVID-19.In a Monday announcement, Contra Costa Health Services said the order will take effect April 3, the same day the state's COVID-19 masking order for healthcare settings expires.
Streetsblog California
1 year ago
SF politics

Caltrans Asphalt Addiction Continues

This time in eastern Contra Costa, with plans to build a new highway, State Route 239.Caltrans wants more more more
Induced demand.Sprawl.Global warming.State transportation officials come to meetings and talk about how they get it now; they can't just keep widening highways and laying more asphalt.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

L.A. County hits high COVID-19 community level as possible mask mandate looms

Los Angeles County has again entered the high COVID-19 community level, further indication that the continuing spike in cases is starting to exert pressure on the region's hospitals.Should hospitalization rates continue to rise this month, the county could be on track for a renewed universal mask order in indoor public settings.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
Public health

A $6,000 urine test? Bay Area hospital company sued over 'unconscionable' fee

Savannah Thompson walked into the emergency department at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek just after midnight June 14, fearing she had ingested fentanyl - a synthetic opiate responsible for a North America-wide epidemic of fatal overdoses - in what she had been told was cocaine, according to a new lawsuit accusing John Muir Health of fraud.
Streetsblog San Francisco
1 year ago
San Francisco

Election: Sustainable Transportation Advocates Survey Bay Area Candidates

In six weeks voters throughout the Bay Area will be heading to the polls (if they haven't already voted by mail by then).
Eater SF
1 year ago
SF food

Why a Popular Bay Area Rapper and a Richmond Winery Partnered Up to Make Natty Wine

There's probably not an extensive amount of overlap between the Bay Area's ever-expanding natural wine community and the well-established independent rap scene.But that's not to say there isn't any.
Streetsblog San Francisco
1 year ago
San Francisco

Today's Headlines

BART and Berkeley Tussle Over Ashby Station Air Rights (Berkeleyside)
Anti-Asian Incidents on Public Transit (SFStandard)
BART Police Arrest Suspect in Robbery (SFChron)
More on Group of East Bay Motorists Attacking Cyclists (EastBayTimes)
Map Shows Walkability of Bay Area (SFChron)
Scott Wiener wants More Housing (SFChron, SFExaminer, EastBayTimes)
Neighborhoods that Would be Most Transformed by Housing Element (SFChron)
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Streetsblog San Francisco
1 year ago
San Francisco

2022 - A Seminal Year for Safe and Livable Streets

Before we go on hiatus, Streetsblog San Francisco reminds everyone of the victories of 2022--and how much fighting remains in the battle for safe-and-livable streets



Walk San Francisco's Jodie Medeiros at a rally earlier this year.Photo: Sergio Ruiz
Who would have thought that Trump-supporter, inheritor of wealth generated through chemical warfare, anti-bike, pro-car, sometimes-art-supporter "socialite" Dede Wilsey would go down in history as having done more to help the cause of safe-and-livable streets than anyone else in the Bay Area?
sfist.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco Now the Only Major Metro Area In the U.S. Where Rents Are Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

Yeah, wow.Even though the city is far from the ghost town it was in the summer/fall of 2020, San Francisco is now the only one of 52 metro areas in the country with 1 million+ people where rents remain below March 2020 levels.It's probably not the case across the board  and these national-trend rent surveys tend mostly only to factor in published rents by corporate-type landlords.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
San Francisco

California Supreme Court ends legal limbo for over $545 million in Bay Area bridge tolls

More than $545 million in Bay Area bridge tolls are now free to fund transit and highway projects across the region after the California Supreme Court ended a legal battle between a crusading anti-tax group and the Bay Area's bridge authority.Transit planners are breathing a collective sigh of relief after the court decision on Tuesday.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Democratic Rep. Josh Harder defeats GOP challenger in Central Valley district

Democratic Rep. Josh Harder won election Tuesday to a Stockton-centered congressional district, beating Republican Tom Patti, a San Joaquin County supervisor and businessman.Harder, who represents a neighboring district, stressed his independence from his party in the Central Valley race, which despite the area's blue tilt was among California's most competitive congressional contests.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
Coronavirus

'We've got a lot of virus circulating now': Santa Clara County's Health Officer

Santa Clara County's top health official warned on Tuesday that COVID case counts and hospitalizations are on the upswing and urged everyone to consider wearing masks in high-risk settings, keep a stockpile of tests and exercise caution when socializing indoors.
KQED
1 year ago
Healthcare

Masking Required Again in High-Risk Settings in 3 Bay Area Counties | KQED

Locke said with the high level of winter respiratory viruses circulating in addition to COVID-19, she thinks everyone should consider wearing a mask in indoor public settings."I definitely am masking up now when I go into the grocery store.I took a little break earlier in the year and now I'm sending my kids back to school in masks.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Theft ring that stole $1 million in jewelry in California apprehended, Bonta says

A retail theft ring stole more than $1 million in jewelry from JCPenney and Sam's Club stores across California in 2020 and 2021, acting as a traveling crime wave, California's attorney general said Friday.
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