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This Tech-Backed Company Tried to Disrupt California’s Housing Crisis. It Couldn’t
An Sramek saw one of California’s biggest challenges — its dire housing shortage — and wanted to propose a big solution. The former investor and startup founder’s bold “East Solano Plan,” headed to the November ballot, would have authorized construction of a dense, walkable city amid eastern Solano County farmland, complete with schools, parks, homes, and offices connected by bike lanes and buses.
Democratic mayors show support for California's retail crime proposition Gov. Newsom opposes
SACRAMENTO – More California mayors who are Democrats are stepping forward to support a statewide ballot initiative on retail crime that Gov. Gavin Newsom opposes.The mayor of San Jose and Elk Grove, along with the Sacramento County District Attorney, announced a new political action committee Wednesday aimed at getting the sweeping state retail and drug punishment initiative Prop 36 passed. "We know that the public safety debate has at times become partisan. It should not be," San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said.Mahan stood at the state capitol alongside Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen. The pair of democrats are...
$130 million in Project Homekey grants awarded to build homes in nine counties
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that $130.6 million in new grant funding will build 533 permanent supportive homes across nine counties under Project Homekey. The funds will be distributed to projects in Sacramento, San Francisco, Merced, Orange, Riverside, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Sonoma, and Kern counties, according to the governor's office. ...
Medi-Cal’s dental care gap: getting a tooth pulled is easy — much harder to get an implant
When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn’t find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin Community Clinics referred the 75-year-old to a dentist about 20 miles away in San Francisco, but his tooth decayed while he waited months for authorization to cover the procedure. In the end, his tooth was pulled.
California's ShakeAlert system gets upgrade to detect major earthquakes faster
The West Coast's ShakeAlert system has received a significant upgrade, allowing it to more rapidly alert the public of the next major earthquake. The growing network of seismic sensors that make up the system throughout California, Oregon and Washington now also incorporates sensors that directly monitor movements on the surface of the earth,...
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