Latest line: A good week for Kaiser, a bad week for AT&T
Kaiser Permanente After announcing a $4.1 billion 2023 profit a few weeks ago, Oakland-based health care giant moves ahead with plans to build a new hospital at its South San Jose campus, double the...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for Kaiser, a bad week for AT&T
Kaiser Permanente After announcing a $4.1 billion 2023 profit a few weeks ago, Oakland-based health care giant moves ahead with plans to build a new hospital at its South San Jose campus, double the...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for Kaiser, a bad week for AT&T
Kaiser Permanente After announcing a $4.1 billion 2023 profit a few weeks ago, Oakland-based health care giant moves ahead with plans to build a new hospital at its South San Jose campus, double the...
View ArticleThey said it: Too much of a good thing
“It just started snowing and snowing, and we’re like, ‘We’re not going to go home on Sunday.’ ” — Mount Pleasant High School animation teacher Lawrence Caces, 40, about the prodigious snowfall in Lake...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for Jackie Speier, a bad week for Peter Dixon
Jackie Speier Retirement? Too boring. Democrat who represented the Peninsula in Congress from 2008 to 2023 wins a San Mateo County supervisors seat, returning to an office she first won in 1980 as a...
View ArticleThey said it: The cost of inflation
“Everything seems to be getting more expensive. It’s getting harder to pay for what we need.” — Junior Mendoza, a San Jose resident who was filling up his vehicle with gasoline on Tuesday at a Safeway...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for Sam Liccardo, a bad week for Kathryn Lybarger
Sam Liccardo Former San Jose mayor is top vote-getter in primary to succeed Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, and prepares for November as the close race for second between Joe Simitian and Evan Low could...
View ArticleThey said it: A sports trailblazer departs
“It will always be my hope that I have inspired little girls, young women and people of color to pursue their dreams, no matter what.” — Renel Brooks-Moon, announcer for the San Francisco Giants...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for Willie Brown, a bad week for Apple
Willie Brown California’s longest-serving Assembly speaker and San Francisco’s first Black mayor turns 90, outliving most of his rivals and celebrating at a big party in SF City Hall with typical...
View ArticleThey said it: Building better bridges
“It’s a very classical mode of failure. It was breathtaking. You study these things and learn about them and teach them to students, but you rarely see it happen, which is a good thing.” — Khalid...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for Fremont, a bad week for Sam Bankman-Fried
Fremont Alameda County city, the fourth most populous in the Bay Area, is named “Happiest City in the U.S.” in a study by personal finance firm WalletHub that included rates of divorce, income, parks,...
View ArticleThey said it: Do not disturb?
“I would never want my boss to feel they couldn’t reach out to me because of legislation. That would be tough in Silicon Valley. Can you imagine?” — Victoria Ortiz, 46, an accountant at a San Jose...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for fast-food workers; a bad week for Oakland’s team...
Fast-food workers California law raising their minimum wage from $16 to $20 an hour took effect April 1. Oakland The Oakland Athletics announced they will play their next three seasons in...
View ArticleThey said it: Airport irony
“We are going all-in with Oakland.” — Barbara Leslie, Oakland Board of Port Commissioners president, before the board’s 7-0 vote to change Oakland International Airport’s name to San Francisco Bay...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for Tara VanDerveer, a bad week for fishermen
Tara VanDerveer Stanford women’s basketball coach, who won three national championships and 1,216 games — more than any men’s or women’s NCAA coach ever — announces a well-deserved retirement after 45...
View ArticleThey said it: Roadway fix’s learning curve
“I use the roundabout twice a day, and I definitely see some stuff. I’ve seen people catching air jumping over it.” — Wayne Wallace, who commutes from Hollister to San Jose, on Caltrans’ new “turbo...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for London Breed, a bad week for Steve Garvey
London Breed San Francisco mayor secures deal with China to bring pandas to SF Zoo, and sees ballot measure to toughen penalties for retail theft and fentanyl dealing, which she supports, likely...
View ArticleThey said it: Buyer’s remorse?
“I don’t hate him. But if I wanted to put bumper stickers on this car I’d get the, ‘I bought this before I knew Elon was crazy’ sticker.” — San Jose State University engineering technology student...
View ArticleLatest line: A good week for NIMBYs, a bad week for San Jose solar giant
NIMBYs The not-in-my-backyard crowd gets a win as an LA court weakens a state law that had abolished single-family zoning by allowing homeowners to split their lots and construct up to four dwellings....
View ArticleThey said it: Keeping protest peaceful
“We don’t want to be deterred by these individual actors who are trying to agitate us on purpose. . . So we just ignore them.” — Emily Williams, Stanford student and pro-Palestine activist, on their...
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