The state of California plans to launch a pilot partnership with federal officials to establish a community COVID-19 vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. The state will collaborate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to operate the Coliseum vaccination site, part of a goal of President Joe Biden’s administration to […]
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Federal judge considers adding additional conditions to PG&E's probation
A federal Judge used sharp language in addressing PG&E and its lawyers during a hearing on Wednesday to consider adding further conditions to the probation imposed after the utility’s prior criminal convictions. Decrying what he said was PG&E’s history of employing “slick legalese” to elide taking stronger action to prevent its equipment from causing dangerous […]
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BART to receive $103.7M in first tranche of new COVID-19 relief funding
BART will receive more than $100 million in federal coronavirus relief funding following the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s first allocation of funding for transit last week. The transit agency will receive $103.7 million, $55 million of which will be used to close BART’s budget deficit for the 2020-21 fiscal year, which ends on June 30. The […]
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Survey: BART riders more satisfied with agency's service amid pandemic
Roughly three-quarters of BART riders were satisfied with the transit agency’s service in 2020, an increase of almost 30% over 2018, according to the results of a survey the agency released last week. BART received responses from some 3,000 riders for its biennial customer satisfaction survey, which found that 72% of riders were very or […]
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Real Estate Preview: Homebuying during 2021 — bedrooms and big yards
Bedrooms and backyards will drive real estate activity in Pleasanton during 2021. Potential homebuyers from San Francisco, the Peninsula and the South Bay are flocking to the East Bay, and the Tri-Valley in particular, searching for properties that can do quadruple-duty as a remote office, a classroom, a gymnasium and a park. “Size of a […]
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The Salton Sea Scramble: Restoration Efforts Are Finally Under Way—but According to the Current Plan, Pollution Will Still Worsen Over at Least the Next Decade
By Kevin Fitzgerald The Salton Sea is evaporating, exposing deadly toxins—and this has been happening for decades. Eastern Coachella Valley residents know it; they’ve lived with the resulting airborne particulate pollution and the effects it has had on their health. Migratory birds know it; environmentalists are concerned that additional bird and fish species will join […]
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Federal judge considers adding additional conditions to PG&E's probation
A federal Judge used sharp language in addressing PG&E and its lawyers during a hearing on Wednesday to consider adding further conditions to the probation imposed after the utility’s prior criminal convictions. Decrying what he said was PG&E’s history of employing “slick legalese” to elide taking stronger action to prevent its equipment from causing dangerous […]
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Ex-councilman Arun Goel sworn into DSRSD board
Former Dublin City Council member Arun Goel was appointed the new leader of Dublin San Ramon Services District Division 5 at the Feb. 2 Board of Directors meeting, beating out four other candidates to fill the vacant seat. Immediately after virtually taking the oath of office, Goel joined the board for the remainder of the […]
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Project Thank You: Saying thanks to health care workers
These days the magic word is “thanks.” Hailey Sohn of Pleasanton is a team member of Project Thank You, started by two UC Berkeley seniors, Ravi Dashputre and Ashley DuBord, to let health care workers know they are appreciated for taking care of others and even endangering their own health. “Medical workers are under immense […]
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What a Week: Remembering Ilene
Last weekend marked a solemn anniversary in Dublin: 32 years to the day since Ilene Misheloff, then 13, disappeared while walking home from school. Like so many events over the past year, the annual remembrance looked much different because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canceled were the traditional candlelight vigil and community walk retracing Ilene’s path […]
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