April 14, 2021 Leaders From All 9 Bay Area Counties Announce Plan To Shrink Homelessness By 75% By Jana Kadah, Bay City News After a year of planning, the multi-pronged strategy to house more people was announced at a virtual news conference on Tuesday. Read More 11
April 13, 2021 Supreme Court Lifts State’s at-home Prayer Meeting Restrictions By Adam Liptak The opinion expressed impatience with the federal appeals court in California for disregarding the Supreme Court’s instructions. Read More 4
April 6, 2021 The U.S. Favors Cars Over Trains, Buses. Can Biden Change That? By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich Nuria Fernandez, former G.M. for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is now Federal Transit Administration's senior official. Read More 7
April 3, 2021 Health and Equity Experts Grade California’s Vaccine Rollout By Jill Cowan A dozen epidemiology, public health and equity experts weigh in on the state's vaccine rollout as more people become eligible for the jab. Read More 5
March 15, 2021 The Plight of the Barcades: How Three Bay Area Gaming Bars Are Surviving the Pandemic By Charles Lewis III, Bay City News Covid restrictions notwithstanding, the light of hope shines through for gamers and their favorite watering holes. Read More 0
March 12, 2021 SF Man Charged With Hate Crime After Attack on Asian Woman at San Jose’s Diridon Station By Jennifer Wadsworth Johan Strydom’s arraignment is set for 1:30pm today in Department 24 of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice. Read More 28
March 11, 2021 Bay Area Lawmakers Laud Passage of Covid Relief Bill By Eli Walsh, Bay City News The $1.9 trillion bill includes monthly payments for families with children and $1,400 checks for millions of Americans. Read More 9
March 8, 2021 How Do Silicon Valley Techies Celebrate Getting Rich in a Devastating Global Pandemic? By Erin Griffith Not by buying airplanes. Instead, the newest start-up millionaires are proceeding cautiously. Read More 4
March 3, 2021 Plagued by Covid-Related Delays, High Speed Rail Costs Rise By Sonya Herrera Despite the challenges, HSR Authority staff are hopeful that President “Amtrak Joe” Biden’s administration will prioritize funding the project. Read More 8
February 10, 2021 San Jose Again Mulls Scrapping Highrise Fire Safety Code By Jennifer Wadsworth Without air-refilling stations in San Jose’s highrises, firefighters say they’d have to lug metal oxygen tanks up flight after flight of stairs. Read More 24
January 20, 2021 Even Before Recent Outbreak, San Jose Kaiser Faced Steep Fines for Covid Safety Violations By Jennifer Wadsworth According to Cal-OSHA, Kaiser’s San Jose Medical Center is one of the top pandemic-safety violators in the state. Read More 6
January 15, 2021 Texit Roils Bay Area as Workers Flee to Austin and Elsewhere By Nellie Bowles As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? Read More 34
December 24, 2020 How a Monthly Skate Night Turned into Activism in San Jose By Katie Lauer Not everyone loves sharing the road with this colorful cadre of wheeled activists, but the feeling is mostly mutual—and that’s the point. Read More 7
December 7, 2020 New Bay Area-Wide Stay-at-Home Order Now in Effect By Bay City News Retail and shopping centers now have indoor operations permitted at 20 percent capacity and no eating or drinking in stores. Read More 3
November 6, 2020 Bay Area Election Officials Say They Prefer Early Voting By Tony Hicks, Bay City News Statewide, more than 11.2 million voters—at least 2.7 million in the San Francisco Bay Area—cast ballots before Election Day. Read More 2
October 29, 2020 Bay Area Voters Cast Two Million Ballots Ahead of Election Day By Tony Hicks, Bay City News Mail-in ballots must be signed and dated and postmarked by Election Day, and received no later than 17 days after Election Day. Read More 0