They said it: Kamala Harris tapped for Dem ticket
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View ArticleThey said it: In need of firefighters
“In all fairness, they’re spread so thin — but my God, we’ve got nobody besides the people in this community.” — Robert Caldeira of Bonny Doon, who was defying evacuation orders Thursday morning to try...
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Latest line: A good week for teachers, a bad one for Newsom
Teachers As Bay Area schools begin, more training and preparation makes for smoother online learning, and polls show most parents agree with teachers and think kids should have distance learning until...
View ArticleThey said it: Firefighters share the pain
“Almost every person we talk to has tears in their eyes, and then soon we’re all crying together.” — Geoffery Keller, a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection firefighter whose home on...
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Latest line: A good week for Salesforce, bad one for state GOP
Salesforce San Francisco software company joins Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Exxon Mobil among prestigious group of 30 blue chip stocks, while monster second quarter boosts profits, and...
View ArticleThey said it: A blowout blowup
“It was a setup, and I take responsibility for falling for a setup.” — Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, after a San Francisco salon owner angry over coronavirus public...
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Latest line: A good week for Quintero, bad one for Rendon
Armando Quintero San Rafael resident, 20-year national park ranger, head of UC Merced Sierra Nevada Institute and chair of California Water Commission is named state parks director, overseeing 280...
View ArticleThey said it: Surreal fire weather
“It’s kind of like nuclear winter.” — Craig Clements, director of the Fire Weather Research Laboratory at San Jose State University, after smoke from record wildfires around the state dimmed the sun...
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Latest line: A good week for chopper pilot, bad one for Jennings
Joseph Rosamond National Guard pilot from Stockton-based crew, veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, hailed as a hero after flying a Chinook helicopter into the raging Creek Fire at night, leading rescues...
View ArticleThey said it: Cooler climate coming?
“I wish science agreed with you.” — Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, after President Donald Trump said, “It will start getting cooler, you just watch” during a meeting with...
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Latest line: A good week for Connerly, bad one for Daimler
Ward Connerly Former UC regent and advocate of Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that curbed affirmative action, seems headed for another win as a new poll finds only 31% support Prop 16 to...
View ArticleThey said it: This is America
“You are not in North Korea, you are not in Turkey, you are not in Russia, Mr. President. And by the way, you are not in Saudi Arabia. You are in the United States of America, it is a democracy, so why...
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Latest line: A good week for Musk, bad one for rent control advocates
Elon Musk Tesla’s billionaire CEO can be erratic, but Gavin Newsom’s announcement to ban the sale of all new gasoline passenger vehicles by 2035 is a huge windfall for electric cars and batteries, and...
View ArticleThey said it: Had it with wildfires
“It’s pretty stressful and we’re not sure we can take it another year. We’re talking about moving away.” — Karen Madigan, 75, a retired librarian in Santa Rosa who with her husband, Jack, had their...
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Latest line: A good week for renters, bad one for students
Renters The Bay Area has seen some of America’s biggest drops in rents due to COVID-19, with monthly rents down 17.8% in San Francisco since March, 9.5% in San Jose and 7.9% in Oakland, and commercial...
View ArticleThey said it: A’s stunned in playoff exit
“It’s a bad feeling.” — Ramón Laureano, Oakland A’s outfielder, after the baseball team’s hopes to reach the league championship and World Series ended in defeat by the Houston Astros in last week’s...
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Latest line: A good week for UC Berkeley, bad one for theme parks
UC Berkeley East Bay university lands two Nobel prizes in two days, as biochemist Jennifer Doudna wins in chemistry for developing a revolutionary gene-editing tool and Reinhard Genzel wins in physics...
View ArticleThey said it: Events can’t return soon enough
“People are going through their entire retirement funds to sustain their lives. The convention center, theater and music industry is the lifeblood of any city. I’m afraid we won’t survive six more...
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Latest line: A good week for tutors, bad one for Elizabeth Holmes
Tutors Demand for tutors is soaring across California, with parents paying as much as $100 an hour for extra academic help as some kids struggle with the challenges of distance learning....
View ArticleThey said it: Let’s make a deal
“I don’t want to carry over the droppings of this grotesque elephant into the next presidency.” — Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco’s Democratic Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, on negotiating a...
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