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Coastal consultant speaks up on sea level rise, local impact of state regulations
During a community forum last week, a longtime coastal planning consultant shared insight on sea level rise policies in the state and their local impact. During the Speak Up Newport’s monthly meeting on Wednesday (July 10), the featured speaker was Don Schmitz, president and principal planner of the land use consulting firm Schmitz & Associates. Schmitz represents a wide variety of clients, including the city of Newport Beach, for items that go before the California Coastal Commission. He also works as the consultant for Smart Coast California. He’s been involved with coastal planning and issues related to sea level rise for many years.
California Awards $27 Million to Container Ports
Port of Los Angeles to Integrate AI into Truck Appointment System. [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.]. California’s business and economic development office has awarded $27 million to fund 10 projects at its five container ports to improve data systems and interoperability to strengthen the nation’s supply chain.
PG&E Rate Increase Hits Bay Area Households Already Struggling to Make Ends Meet
Rising electricity bills and, by extension, the expense of living for low-income Californians, will be felt by millions of customers shortly as a result of PG&E’s rate hikes in response to a recent court decision. In November, the power company’s request for $13.5 billion to improve and underground the...
Vallejo wastewater maintenance causing rotten odor miles away
VALLEJO – Recent maintenance work by the Vallejo Flood and Wastewater District has caused an unpleasant smell wafting up from the waterfront sewage treatment plant into south and central Vallejo in recent months and led to a flurry of complaints to government officials. The district now expects that residents and visitors in Vallejo will have to endure the odors for months longer.
Now New Chapter Ahead: Bay Area City Set to Shift Focus After Ten Years of Oil Company Coverage
An oil firm has owned Richmond’s most prominent news outlet for the past 10 years. That, however, is about to alter. In June, the hyperlocal, independent news site Richmondside came online, focusing on the city’s predominantly working-class population. Cityside, a nonprofit newsgroup that already runs the Oakland side and Berkeleyside, has launched a third news site. The site has gained more than 100 members in the short time it has been live.
California Billionaire Farmers Stewart and Lynda Resnick, Plan Major Industrial Expansion
The wealthiest farming family in California, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, are planning to significantly expand an industrial warehouse complex to transform the small town of Shafter into an international trading hub. The Resnicks, who own The Wonderful Company, already possess a large distribution center in Shafter, northwest of Bakersfield. The...
California’s wildfires are burning far more land so far this year than in 2023
So far in this year’s California’s wildfire season, about 20 times more acres of land have burned than around this time last year. Since the beginning of the year, there were more than 3,500 wildfires across the state through early July, causing about 207,000 acres of land to burn. Around this time last year, about 10,000 acres had burned. The five-year average of acres burned through mid-July is about 39,000, Cal Fire said last week.
Man scams East Bay woman out of $350K after installing solar panels in her home
(KRON) — A man has been convicted of scamming an elderly woman with dementia out of more than $350,000, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said Monday. The man installed solar panels in the victim’s home before gaining her trust and control of her finances. An investigation by the DA’s office revealed that the victim […]
Extreme Heat Is a Death Sentence in California Prisons
(WIB) – In 2015, Adrienne Boulware was sentenced to 15 years to life in California state prison in connection to the 2011 death of a man in Sacramento. But over the weekend, as temperatures hit 110 in the Central Valley town of Chowchilla, where Boulware was imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility, prisoner advocates and her family say she died due the heat nine years into her sentence.
With an unexpected bundle of cash, father and son build a new music legacy
A manila envelope stuffed with $100 bills passed quietly in a Denny’s parking lot isn’t the usual way that new music commissions get funded. But Adam Tendler has never been particularly concerned with concert hall niceties. The Grammy-nominated pianist made his Bay Area debut at Oakland’s Piedmont Piano...
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