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LA City Council To Vote on Public Homeless Encampment Prohibition Ballot Measure

November 23, 2021 11:53 amNovember 23, 2021 11:56 am

The Los Angeles City Council will decide on Tuesday whether or not to pass a motion that would place an initiative on the June 2022 primary ballot to prohibit all homeless encampments in public areas in the city if they had...

New Report on San Francisco Homelessness Provides Real Policy Solutions

November 23, 2021 7:47 amNovember 24, 2021 6:20 am

Why is homelessness growing in California, but declining in every other state in the country? California is home to more than 151,000 people now experiencing homelessness across the state – a 31% increase from 2015 – according to the Independent...

Gov. Newsom Vows Funding To Stop Recent High-End SF Robberies

November 23, 2021 2:25 amApril 3, 2022 8:26 am

During a speech at a San Francisco vaccine clinic on Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the high-profile high-end retail robberies that occurred in the Bay Area this weekend, vowing to increase state budgetary support to fight retail theft rings....

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...

Caltrans Evicts Transients from Illegal Sacramento Alley Campsite

November 22, 2021 9:47 amNovember 22, 2021 10:07 am

The recent Caltrans eviction notice at Democracy Alley and 30th Street in downtown Sacramento ordered transients to vacate the illegal campsite by 8:00 a.m. on Nov. 19. The dump trucks arrived early. The fog began to drizzle at 8:15. A...

Rep. Tom McClintock Calls on President Biden to Fulfill His Promise to Caldor Fire Victims

November 20, 2021 7:50 amNovember 20, 2021 8:02 am

Rep. Tom McClintock sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling upon him to fulfill the promise he made to assist the victims of the Caldor Fire when he visited the scene on September 13, 2021. The Federal Emergency Management...