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Oakland City Council Ignores Business Owners Concerns About Jack London Square Homeless Shelter

September 6, 2024 9:53 amSeptember 6, 2024 9:53 am

Historic Jack London Square in Oakland soon will be home to 100 drug-addicted homeless vagrants. “There goes the neighborhood (such as it is),” one resident posted on SFYimby.com. Business owners and neighbors said the city has not done any outreach....

Hunter Biden Shocks Prosecutors By Switching To a Guilty Plea

September 6, 2024 2:45 amSeptember 6, 2024 2:46 am

In a shocking move at the Los Angeles Federal Courthouse on Thursday, President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, pled guilty to nine counts of federal tax charges, reversing his not guilty plea from earlier this year and facing up to...

California’s Latest Crime Events Prove Why Prop 36 to Reform Prop 47 is Essential

September 5, 2024 8:00 amOctober 15, 2025 4:18 pm

California’s ongoing crime crisis is everywhere – no one is spared, except high ranking politicians and Hollywood elite who have security. Crime and rampant retail theft throughout California cities has caused thousands of small business and store closures. Escalating fentanyl...

CA University Campus Palestine Protests Quiet Following Arrests, Suspensions

September 5, 2024 2:45 amSeptember 4, 2024 8:26 pm

In the last few weeks, Pro-Palestinian protests have returned to college campuses nationwide. And, like the thousands of arrests last year of students on campuses, those have returned as well. Major protests disrupting classes are back at Columbia University in...

Scrutiny Over ‘Revenge’ Bill to End California’s Legacy and Donor-Based College Admissions

September 4, 2024 5:51 pmSeptember 4, 2024 5:51 pm

A bill that would ban both legacy and donor preferred admissions at public and private colleges in California received continued scrutiny this week as Governor Gavin Newsom mulls over his decision on the bill. Assembly Bill 1780, authored by Assemblyman...

Community Calls for Parole Board to Deny Parole For Santana High School Shooter

September 4, 2024 1:29 pmSeptember 4, 2024 1:29 pm

An effort by lawmakers and community leaders in San Diego County to deny the parole of the 2001 Santana High School shooter Charles Andrew Williams continued to grow this month as his first parole hearing on September 10th inches closer....

Reparations Property Restoration Bill In Jeopardy Following Removal Of Several Other Reparations Bills

September 4, 2024 2:45 amSeptember 4, 2024 2:46 am

Few reparations bills managed to land on the Governor’s desk this month, despite 14 starting off at the beginning of the year. All the little-to-no cost measures with no real legal or political challenges made it, like AB 3089, which...