Bay Area Red Flag warning, Spare the Air alert issued for Bay Area on Wednesday By Exedra Staff, Bay City News | August 29, 2023 A little of this, a little of that.
Bay Area Oakland A’s fans hoping for late-inning miracle By Benjamin Coleman | Bay City News Foundation | August 29, 2023 The Athletics' shambling, incremental move toward Vegas grabs headlines, but Oakland fans have another take.
Education As culture wars escalate, California officials push back on school board policies By Carolyn Jones and Alexei Koseff | CalMatters | August 29, 2023 State officials are fighting recent board decisions that restrict LGBTQ student protections.
Arts & Entertainment ‘The Riders’ richly details Oakland policing’s checkered past By Amelia Williams | Bay City News Foundation | August 28, 2023 Bay Area-based investigative reporters Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham examine the foundations and reverberations of corruption in the Oakland Police Department.
Bay Area Families have high hopes for Gavin Newsom’s CARE Courts. Providers want to lower expectations By Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters | August 28, 2023 The big new experiment to push people with mental illness off the streets and into treatment starts this fall.
COVID-19 California boards want to keep pandemic rules for public meetings. Critics call it bad for democracy By Sameea Kamal | CalMatters | August 25, 2023 A disparate coalition of advocates is challenging efforts to continue carve-outs from open meetings law.
Bay Area ‘All we want is revenge’: How social media fuels gun violence among teens By Liz Szabo | KFF Health News | August 25, 2023 When posts that call out rivals go viral, fueled by “likes” and comments, the danger is hard to contain.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: ‘Fremont,’ ‘Bottoms,’ ‘Valley of Exile’ By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | August 24, 2023 Cinequest wraps up and two new features with East Bay connections open.
Elections Why a Colorado ambulance company wants to limit California taxes By Alexei Koseff | CalMatters | August 24, 2023 American Medical Response has poured more than $3 million into a November 2024 initiative to raise requirements for levying taxes and fees.
Bay Area New fountain at Lake Merritt takes aim at algae By Charles Ayitay | Bay City News | August 22, 2023 A 2022 algal bloom killed thousands of fish in the lake.