They said it: Who can afford a Bay Area home?
“There’s a phrase that we hear often: ‘I can’t even afford what I don’t like.'” — East Bay real estate agent Janine Hunt, after the Federal Reserve issued the largest interest rate hike in more than...
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Latest line: A good week for gun advocates, bad one for SF DA Chesa Boudin
Gun advocates Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that California’s recent law banning people under 21 from buying semi automatic rifles violates the Second Amendment. Chesa...
View ArticleThey said it: Low wildfire risk?
“Taking climate models down to individual addresses is tricky. We should take that with a little bit of caution.” — Craig Clements, director of San Jose State University’s Fire Weather Lab, on...
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Latest line: A good week for Trina Thompson; a bad one for Natalie Le DeMola
Trina Thompson Oakland native, and first African-American woman elected as Alameda County Superior Court judge, is now a federal judge, confirmed by U.S. Senate, 51-44, to the U.S. District Court in...
View ArticleThey said it: ‘Acute stubbornness’
“I shouldn’t have been so stubborn.” — Stephen Elliott, 76, of Vallejo, in some of his last words to his son Ryan before the real estate broker’s January death from what Ryan wrote in his obituary was...
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Latest line: A good week for Big Oil, a bad week for Rebeca Armendariz
Big Oil As gas stays above $6 a gallon, Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips post $35 billion in profits in the first three months of 2022 — 300% percent more than the first quarter of...
View ArticleThey said it: California race reckoning
“As long as America is unkind, disrespectful and unjust to Black folks, she will never come into her own.” — The Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown, pastor at Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, president of...
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Latest line: A good week for Gavin Newsom, a bad week for Robert Rivas
Gavin Newsom Democratic governor has commanding lead heading into Tuesday’s primary election, up 50% to Republican Brian Dahle’s 10%, with all other challengers in single digits. Get read for the 2028...
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Latest line: A good week for Jeff Rosen, a bad one for Anne Marie Schubert
Jeff Rosen No-nonsense Santa Clara County district attorney easily wins re-election to a fourth term over two challengers, having figured out the correct balance between criminal justice reform and...
View ArticleThey said it: Not liking the choices
“We need new candidates.” — Aileen Dolby, 60, a voter in Oakland, on the June 7 primary. Turnout is projected to be low.
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Latest line: A good week for Zoe Lofgren, a bad week for High Speed Rail
Zoe Lofgren Veteran San Jose congresswoman receives national attention as a key member of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob loyal to Donald Trump....
View ArticleThey said it: A surprising return to glory
“The reason it was a surprise is we kind of stunk the last couple of years. I don’t know if you noticed that. To be able to bounce back from where we were is pretty incredible.” — Golden State Warriors...
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Latest line: A good week for Joe Lacob, a bad week for Paul Pelosi
Joe Lacob Majority owner of the Golden State Warriors celebrates fourth NBA championship, a boisterous victory parade, and knowledge that the team’s value has risen 10-fold since he and partners...
View ArticleThey said it: Systemic failure
“Her life could have been saved. The bottom line is they didn’t believe me. They didn’t believe Sophia. Now, her blood is on their hands.” — Emerald Johnson, whose 8-year-old niece, Sophia Mason, died...
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Latest line: A good week for state parks, a bad week for San Francisco...
State parks department It took a while, but state parks crews have finally cleaned up Big Basin, California’s oldest state park, enough so its famed redwoods can reopen to the public July 22, two...
View ArticleThey said it: Therapy dog
“I always call him the doggie-lama. He’s very chill.” — Linda Gordon, of Oakland, on Brixton, the English retriever she handles for San Francisco International Airport’s Wag Brigade of therapy animals...
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Latest line: A good week for Ricardo Lara, a bad week for Sunny Balwani
Ricardo Lara Democratic state insurance commissioner, battered by ethics controversies, faces easy November re-election after main rival, Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, concedes narrow primary...
View ArticleThey said it: Yosemite still shines through the haze
“You can just see a little bit of the beauty — you know it’s there but you don’t get to see it all.” — Mark Sunderlin, 56, of Phoenix, on his first family trip to Yosemite where the Washburn Fire last...
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Latest line: A good week for Silicon Valley high schools, a bad week for the...
Fremont Union High School District With all ballots certified, Measure G, a $275 million bond act to modernize schools in Sunnyvale, Cupertino and West San Jose, wins by a razor-thin 299 votes out of...
View ArticleThey said it: This doesn’t look good
“This doesn’t look good. Coincidences can happen, but we really need to get to the bottom and get a lot more information than we have currently.” — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, member of the House...
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