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Counties raise concerns as OptumServe gets bigger role in California’s vaccine plans
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Dissatisfaction grows with "poorly run" operations of a company with a large share of the state's pandemic response, including vaccine distribution.Arts & Entertainment
‘Binding Ties’ illuminates POC railroad workers’ history
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Drive-in screening of 1991 film at Oakland's 16th Street Station shines a light anew on oft-forgotten histories.Bay Area
Girls on the Run outpaces pandemic blues
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Running program provides girls with community and exercise in a year that has been marked by isolation.Arts & Entertainment
Best Bets: Opera and soloist cap Black History Month, plus dance and theater to stream
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The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here.Arts & Entertainment
Pass the Remote: Black identity anthology, and a chilling horror debut
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California horror, six Black short films, a renaissance biopic, a graphic novel transformed to film, and a thoughtful and bewildering story set in the art world all make for compelling viewing.Arts & Entertainment
‘Wall + Response’ poetry event has Black Panthers at its heart
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The Clarion Alley Mural Project brings 16 Bay Area poets into virtual conversation with four murals.California
California’s climate goals are now a stretch, say two new reports
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A state auditor's report and a study from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a nonprofit think tank cast a shadow over the progress of ambitious climate plans.California
New single-payer bill intensifies Newsom’s political peril
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Newsom came to power promising healthcare reform, but any single-payer proposal will bring on criticism from left and right.Bay Area
