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Oakland Mayor Lee Says She Will Try to Fund Civic Assembly???s Vacant Lot Ideas
19+ hour, 11+ min ago (559+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. Thousands of vacant lots – storefronts, larger commercial space, residential spaces, buildings you can’t even tell what they once were – are just sitting there across Oakland....
BART Says Aging Infrastructure to Blame for Substation Fire, Days of Delays
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (499+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. A BART substation fire that snarled commutes and disrupted airport service and travel across the Bay Area this week was caused by aging infrastructure that…...
Gov. Newsom Signs Sweeping New Rules for Online Child Safety
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (724+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of online child safety bills Thursday, enacting some of the strongest protections for young users in the country. Assembly…...
Ben Allen Wants to Take on The Insurance Industry for You
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (110+ words) KQED Ben Allen Wants to Take on The Insurance Industry for You For the first time, voters in California will decide between two Democrats for insurance commissioner, a powerful position that regulates insurance rates and acts as a consumer advocate....
Have You Been Hit With 1 of These Bay Area Phone Scams? How to Spot the Red Flags
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (1743+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. If you’ve had the nagging feeling that scam calls and messages have gotten worse over the last few years, you’re actually correct. Americans reported losing…...
Agave Takes Root in Central Valley Ag School Programs
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (780+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. The team is trying to figure out if agave’s roots can loosen up the soil and keep it fertile for crops in the future. “I…...
A New Anthropic Model Seeks to Test How AI Could Impact the US Economy
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (425+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. In one scenario, artificial intelligence provides a gentle boost to the economy, lifting growth rates with little effect on workers. At the other extreme, GDP…...
C&H Sugar Workers??? Strike Could End After Reaching Tentative Deal With Company
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (326+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. C&H Sugar Refinery workers have reached a tentative agreement with the company after a weekslong strike, a union spokesperson told KQED Wednesday. Dozens of…...
A Beloved SF Grocery Store Brings ‘Tiny Desk’-Style Concerts to the Produce Aisle
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (437+ words) Browse our guide on the best concerts, plays, galleries, and more to see this fall. “Something about Rainbow that’s different from other grocers is that we’re part of the community,” de la Cruz-Falcon says. “We’re a co-op; we’re not owned…...
SF Renters Face Buyout Offers and Evictions as AI Boom Sends Prices Soaring
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (161+ words) KQED SF Renters Face Buyout Offers and Evictions as AI Boom Sends Prices Soaring Airdate: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 9am Rents are shooting through the roof in San Francisco as the AI boom creates yet another new class of wealthy people. The…...