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Boarded Up SF Bay Area Stores Following String of High-Profile Robberies

November 22, 2021 4:57 pmNovember 22, 2021 8:01 pm

Stores in San Francisco’s Union Square, as well as around the Bay Area, engaged in a mass boarding up of stores during the weekend to counter the mass number of store robberies that have occurred recently. While crime rates such...

DoorDash To Pay $5.325 Million Settlement for Not Paying San Francisco Workers Benefits

November 22, 2021 11:49 am

San Francisco officials, led by City Attorney David Chiu, announced that the city reached a $5.325 million lawsuit settlement with DoorDash on Monday over the company allegedly not paying workers certain benefits dating back to 2016. An investigation launched earlier...

California Receives Initial $58 Million from DOT for High Speed Rail Transit, Cycling ‘Infrastructure’ Projects

November 20, 2021 2:17 amApril 3, 2022 8:26 am

Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) announced on Friday that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has given it’s first grants from the recently passed $1 Trillion infrastructure bill to California, with $58 million going to transportation projects in...

Former Professor Indicted In District Court Over Starting 4 Wildfires This Summer

November 19, 2021 4:13 pm

Former Sonoma State University criminal justice Professor Gary Stephen Maynard was indicted on five counts of arson by a federal Grand Jury at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento on Thursday over allegedly...

City of Folsom and Folsom Chamber Campaign To Fight Labor Shortage

November 19, 2021 12:42 pmNovember 19, 2021 12:43 pm

A new joint Folsom-Folsom Chamber of Commerce campaign to alleviate the labor shortage by appealing to retirees, stay-at-home parents, and teenagers received national attention this week due to the unique strategy of the program, with many remaining unsure of if...

Superior Court Overturns SF School Board Admissions Policy For Lowell High School

November 19, 2021 2:26 amNovember 18, 2021 8:37 pm

The Superior Court of California ruled on Thursday that the San Francisco Board of Education’s decision to remove a merit-based admissions system to Lowell High School earlier this year is to be nullified. In February, the SF Board of Education...

Paso Robles Teacher Who Told Conservatives Students To ‘Jump Off a Bridge’ May Face Disciplinary Actions

November 18, 2021 4:08 pmNovember 18, 2021 5:14 pm

An incident last week in a San Luis Obispo County school where a teacher told a conservative student group waving a profane flag against Joe Biden to “jump off a bridge” has garnered national and international attention this week. Last...