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Recall Effort Against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Collects Enough Signatures For November Ballot

May 29, 2024 8:00 amMay 29, 2024 8:01 am

The movement to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, led by the Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao (OUST) group, announced on Sunday that they have collected 30,000 signatures to place a recall vote against Thao on the November ballot, 5,000...

Tesla Announces 601 More Employees Laid Off in Fremont, Palo Alto

May 15, 2024 12:34 pmMay 15, 2024 12:34 pm

According to a new Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice filed late on Monday, electric automaker Tesla is to fire another 601 at their Palo Alto development hub and Fremont factory, adding to the over 3,300 employees in the...

Environmental Non-Profit Sues Tesla Over Alledged Clean Air Act Violations At Fremont Plant

May 15, 2024 2:35 amMay 15, 2024 2:36 am

Environmental non-profit group Environmental Democracy Project sued Tesla on Tuesday, claiming that Tesla’s Fremont auto factory has violated the federal Clean Air Act “Hundreds of times”. In the past few years, Tesla has paid multiple fines over questionable environmental practices....

The Greenberg Brief: Holding Out Hope for Prop. 47’s Survival

May 13, 2024 2:45 amMay 14, 2024 6:21 am

It’s now 10 years since the passage of the Safe Neighborhoods & Schools Act. How could voters not have been in favor of it back then? Well, we can now blame the deceptive ballot measure name in hindsight, as it...

Port Of Oakland Votes Unanimously to Change Airport Name, Countersues San Francisco

May 10, 2024 11:56 amMay 10, 2024 11:56 am

The Port of Oakland unanimously voted in favor of changing the name of Oakland’s airport from “Oakland International Airport” to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” on Thursday, with the Port later countersuing San Francisco over trademark infringement while San...

Berkeley Schools’ Antisemitism: Superintendent Testifying to Congress Wednesday Morning

May 7, 2024 3:48 pmMay 7, 2024 3:48 pm

“Kill Jews.” That was scrawled on a Berkeley High School wall recently, prompting the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) to do, well, nothing. It appears the antisemitism problem in BUSD has only grown since February, when the Louis D. Brandeis...

Hating Jews in Elementary School: Berkeley Public Schools Tolerating Antisemitism

May 6, 2024 11:50 amMay 7, 2024 9:29 am

The focus of much of the recent explosion of antisemitism across the nation has seemed to be the college campus. But in Berkeley, it appears to start in elementary school with Palestinian flags in second grade classrooms and kids –...