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San Francisco's Fillmore Jazz Festival celebrates 35 years with music, food, and fun
SAN FRANCISCO - The Fillmore Jazz Festival kicked off in San Francisco on Saturday. It's the largest jazz festival on the West Coast. Music fans got to the festival early to stake out a prime spot Saturday in front of one of the main stages near California Street. "We come...
Two Popular Baby Bottle Companies Are Being Sued Over Microplastic Concerns
A group of concerned parents have banned together to file a class action lawsuit against two popular baby bottle manufacturers. In the suit, the parents allege that both Philips Avent and Dr. Brown's intentionally mislead consumers about the safety of certain baby bottles and sippy cups, which the parents claim can expose infants and toddlers to harmful microplastics. Find out if your baby's bottles are included in Dr. Browns baby bottle lawsuit, and what you need to know about the claims being made. A class action lawsuit has been lodged against Dr. Brown's baby bottles.On June 25, 2024 a proposed...
Propane camping canisters are a nightmare to recycle. This gear store found a workaround
Propane is an essential for camping trips, but once the gas runs out, the pressurized canisters it comes in often become junk. The cylinders sold by major outdoor supply brands, like Coleman, are one-and-done, so they can’t be refilled or easily recycled. To reduce campers’ propane guilt, local sporting...
Report highlights large increase in Richmond legal expenses since 2020
Since 2020, Richmond’s budget for the city attorney’s office has grown by more than 140 percent, according to a workforce analysis by government management consultant Raftelis. According to the city’s figures, Richmond spent $1,610,307 on the city attorney’s office in 2020. For this year, the council has a...
California’s Junk Fee Ban No Longer Clashes With Restaurant Fees
Earlier this year, two trends gaining momentum neared a collision in California’s restaurants and bars. One was a statewide ban on junk fees — here defined as anything over and above the items purchased on a particular visit to a shop, hotel or other establishment. The other? The fact that a growing number of restaurants are charging fees in order to pay their staff a living wage or provide them with healthcare. The metaphorical collision in this situation is that California’s government seemed ready to treat restaurant fees as junk fees — which is to say, not allowing bars and restaurants to charge them.
79-Year-Old Pleads Not Guilty to Felony Manslaughter in San Francisco Bus Stop Tragedy
Mary Fong Lau, the 79-year-old accused in the fatal crash at a West Portal bus stop that resulted in the tragic deaths of a family of four, has entered a plea of not guilty to four counts of felony vehicular manslaughter, as reported yesterday by the SF Standard. The crash, occurring on March 16, claimed the lives of Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, Matilde Moncada Ramos Pinto, and their two young children who were waiting at the bus shelter.
Gov. Gavin Newsom leaves California amid brutal heat wave and wildfires
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom is visiting other states, campaigning for President Joe Biden. This comes on the heels of the presidential debate, which left Americans wondering about Joe Biden's stamina for another term. Many Californians are frustrated with the governor for leaving the state during a brutal heat wave and devastating fires. He's off campaigning for President Biden's re-election, being very vocal about his support. Something Republicans say he's using as a guise to campaign for himself should Biden step aside. "Gov. Newsom has been running a shadow presidential campaign for quite some time," said the chairwoman of the...
Independence Day 2024 was one of the hottest on record for Northern California
Independence Day 2024 will go down as one of the hottest on record for parts of Northern California. Downtown Sacramento reached a high temperature of 109 degrees on Thursday afternoon. That is one degree shy of the daily record of 110 degrees set in 1991. That is according to data shared by the National Weather Service at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday evening.
Southern California teens to compete in solar-powered car race in Texas
Three teams of high school students from Southern California prepared Friday to head to Texas to compete in an annual solar-powered car race with cars they designed and built. For the Solar Car Challenge, a 4-days race taking place at Texas Motor Speedway, students at Temple City High School were testing their solar-powered vehicles that they built from scratch.
California advances first-in-nation plan to set water budgets for cities statewide
California officials have approved a first-of-its-kind regulation that will set long-term limits on the amounts of water the state’s urban utilities can use on an annual basis. The State Water Resources Control Board granted unanimous support Wednesday to sweeping conservation measures that are expected to generate about 500,000 acre-feet in water savings each year by…
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