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Backlash Continues Against The Oakland City Council For Approving $100 Million In Budget Cuts

December 20, 2024 4:43 pmDecember 20, 2024 4:43 pm

Facing a $129 million deficit next year, the Oakland City Council approved a number of large cuts to multiple city services this week, with $100 million being slashed from police, fire, and arts budgets. For years, the city of Oakland...

CPUC Approves $722.6 million Rate Hike For 2025 To Keep The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open

December 20, 2024 11:14 amDecember 20, 2024 11:14 am

In a 4-1 vote on Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission approved $722.6 million in additional ratepayer costs to pay for extended operations at both units of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant through the end of 2025 – a...

California, New York, and Illinois Experienced Largest Domestic Population Losses 2023 and 2024

December 20, 2024 8:21 amDecember 20, 2024 8:31 am

In journalism, reporters are taught to never bury the lede – never hide the most important and relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information. Case in point: “California nets large population increase in 2024 — nearly returning to...

Can Donald Trump Make Cyber Great Again?

December 20, 2024 5:46 amDecember 20, 2024 5:47 am

If 2024 were a movie, it’d be a dystopian thriller where the hacker is both the hero and the villain. Picture this: Change Healthcare—a linchpin in America’s healthcare system—gets breached, exposing the private data of millions and prompting everyone to...

SF Mayor London Breed Appoints Office Of Innovation Director Stephen Sherrill Next District 2 Supervisor

December 19, 2024 1:38 pmDecember 19, 2024 1:38 pm

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, in one of her final acts of Mayor, appointed the former Deputy New York City Mayor Advisor and current Mayor’s Office Of Innovation Director Stephen Sherrill as the next District 2 Supervisor, taking the place...

San Francisco Department Of Public Health Hires Weight Based Discrimination Activist As A Consultant

December 19, 2024 10:06 amDecember 19, 2024 10:06 am

Virgie Tovar, a weight-based discrimination speaker and author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat,” was hired by the San Francisco Department of Public Health earlier this week as a :weight stigma and weight neutrality” consultant, resulting in public...

California Courts and the Legislative Open Records Act

December 19, 2024 2:30 amDecember 19, 2024 2:31 am

The main appellate court case involving the Legislative Open Records Act (LORA) is Zumbrun Law Firm v. California Legislature (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 1603, review denied. In that case, according to the courts, the Legislature’s response to a LORA record request satisfied the...