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Latest line: A good week for EV advocates, bad one for Gary Kremen
Electric car advocates Gas prices top $5 a gallon as oil prices soar amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But California’s 1 million EV drivers pay nothing at the pump. Gary Kremen Tech...
View ArticleThey said it: Gas is how much now?
“We just got a raise, but it doesn’t feel like it. Gas is eating the hell out of it.” — James Hayes, a Manteca ironworker who’s spending $1,000 a month now filling his Chevy Silverado driving to jobs...
View ArticleThey said it: A family mourned
“She was like a big sister to all of us – just a very cool, modern lady.” — Ksenia Khirvonina, public relations manager at SE Ranking, an SEO software company with offices in Palo Alto, London, Moscow,...
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Latest line: A good week for big oil, a bad one for Stanford
Oil companies – San Ramon-based Chevron, along with Shell, BP and ExxonMobil, posted record profits last year totaling a combined $75 billion as gasoline prices for motorists rose following slow demand...
View ArticleThey said it: Masks in school
“I’d rather be alive and hot than dead and cold.” — Angelo Hendricks, 17, an Oakland Technical High School student, on why he’s fine with wearing a face mask to class though it’s no longer required in...
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Latest line: A good week for baseball fans, bad one for Boudin
Baseball fans Spring training games began Thursday after the players union and owners ended a 3-month lockout, saving the season and boosting the fortunes of businesses around the A’s and Giants...
View ArticleThey said it: Living charitably
“There’s something that feels very wrong about holding onto money that you don’t actually need.” — Clemmy Brown, 36, a San Francisco psychotherapist who gave away her $1.2 million inheritance and lives...
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Latest line: A good week for Lateefah Simon, bad one for Evan Neumann
Lateefah Simon BART board member who faced removal after moving one block outside her district boundaries in Oakland will retain her seat after BART board concludes its staff gave her bad advice...
View ArticleThey said it: Shooting the good guy
“What did they want him to do, give the gun back to the guy threatening to shoot people with it?” — Adante Pointer, lawyer for K’aun Green, 20, who’s recovering from being shot by a San Jose Police...
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Latest line: A good week for garden shops, a bad one for Van Houten
Garden shops Following a record dry January, February and March, California descends into a third year of severe drought, meaning lots of residents will be replacing lawns with water-efficient...
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Latest line: A good week for country music fans, bad one for public schools
Country music fans KBAY-FM (94.5) ditched classic hits to become Bay Country on Tuesday, less than two weeks after KRTY — the Bay Area’s only country station — announced it was going off the air in...
View ArticleThey said it: $5 a gallon gas won’t return soon
“I don’t really see the next time California or the Bay Area’s going to get under that $5 mark — maybe later this year.” — Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, a company that...
View ArticleThey said it: Masking up on planes
“A packed plane is an unknown gumbo of people from lots of different places.” — Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of the UC-San Francisco medical department, on why it makes sense to keep wearing masks on...
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Latest line: A good week for renewable energy advocates, bad one for Gilroy...
Renewable energy advocates New records show that California’s power grid ran on 97% renewable energy April 3, mostly solar and wind, breaking an all-time record and boosting momentum toward clean...
View ArticleThey said it: Masks off in planes
“I tried not to think about it.” — Maryann Klimaj, 68, who was seated near a passenger she said was “coughing, hacking and sneezing” without a face mask on a Salt Lake City to Oakland flight last week...
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Latest line: A good week for Matt Haney, bad one for Netflix
Matt Haney San Francisco supervisor, seen as more willing to allow new housing construction, defeats fellow Democrat David Campos for 17th Assembly District seat, succeeding David Chiu, who resigned...
View ArticleThey said it: If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” — Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk on his...
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Latest line: A good week for bicyclists in San Francisco, bad one for former...
Bicyclists San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes 7-4 to permanently close 1.5 miles of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park to cars, a victory for bicycle groups who advocated for years that the popular...
View ArticleThey said it: Keep it on the down low
“I’m sure you caught the part in the federal announcement where they assert the project cost ‘is expected to be $9.148 billion.’ Can we ask them to revise that language??” — San Jose Mayor Sam...
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Latest line: A good week for Stanford; a bad one for California GOP
John Doerr Woodside venture capitalist cements his legacy as one of Silicon Valley’s all-time top philanthropists as he and wife, Ann, donate $1.1 billion to establish a new climate school at Stanford,...
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