Bay Area March 2025 author events: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tori Amos, Giada De Laurentiis, Emma Donoghue, Rick Steves, Niall Williams, and more By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | February 27, 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, debut novelists, memoirists, celebrity authors, and of course, local writers on tap around the Bay this month.
California ‘Look, there’s nowhere else to go:’ Inside California’s crackdown on homeless camps By Marisa Kendall and Katie Anastas | Cal Matters | February 27, 2025 It’s been eight months since the US Supreme Court fundamentally changed how cities can respond to homeless encampments.
Bay Area ‘We’re out here not getting paid’: UC workers strike amid contract negotiation stalement By Ruth Dusseault | Bay City News | February 27, 2025 The strike will take place across all 10 UC campuses as well as hospitals and laboratories like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: GG Park Bandshell concerts, Endgames Improv, Blues Harmonica Blowout, ‘Don Giovanni,’ Ticciati conducts Rachmaninoff By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | February 26, 2025 Concerts and comedy for your viewing pleasure.
nature UC Berkeley’s famous falcons are missing — which has fans and experts fearing the worst By Dan McMenamin | Bay City News | February 26, 2025 The culprit may be the highly contagious avian flu.
Education Advice to California schools on Trump’s DEI crackdown: Do nothing — yet By Carolyn Jones | CalMatters | February 26, 2025 Attorney General Rob Bonta said DEI programs are legal and schools have a right to promote them.
Obituary Santa Rosa schools dealt heartbreaking loss after three students die from drug overdoses By Tony Hicks, Bay City News | February 25, 2025 Police arrested Ramon Nunez, 21, on Sunday for allegedly selling fentanyl to two of the high school victims.
Bay Area ‘A volunteer jail:’ Inside the scandals and abuse pushing California’s homeless out of shelters By Lauren Hepler | CalMatters | February 25, 2025 Shelters have become California’s go-to solution for homelessness. A CalMatters investigation finds the vast majority of residents stay homeless.
Climate Citing lack of ‘clarity,’ state legal office rejects controversial new fuel standard By Alejandro Lazo, CalMatters | February 24, 2025 A surprising twist in the rancorous debate over how to transition the state away from fossil fuels.
California Commentary | Congress, not POTUS, decides on government spending — how ‘power of the purse’ works By Zachary Price, for The Conversation | Local News Matters | February 22, 2025 UC College of Law Associate Professor Zachary Price explains why James Madison would not be pleased with Trump and Musk.