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Family of Man Suffocated by Antioch Police Restraint to Get $7.5 Million Settlement
Antioch will settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of Angelo Quinto, who died after police kneeled on his neck in 2020.

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First SF Mayoral Debate Continues to Crumble as Third Candidate May Drop Out
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Newsom's Budget Proposal Cuts $200 Million from UC and Cal State Funding
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UC Berkeley Encampment is Packing Up for Merced. Here’s What Admin Agreed To
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UC Stands Firm on $32 Billion Investment Plans Amid Pro-Palestinian Calls for Withdrawal
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With a Bid for Abandoned Coliseum Seats, Oakland Ballers Try to Connect With City's Sports History
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Newsom Seeks Faster Track for Home Insurance Rate Hikes as Market Shrinks
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8 Bay Area Sports Teams to See This Summer (Without Giving John Fisher a Dime)
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An Oakland Potluck and Group Show for Humanitarian Efforts in Gaza

Housing Affordability

Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing Gains Approval After Push by Newsom

The governor urged the planning commission to approve the 40-unit project, a little over a year after a mass shooting on two farms revealed deplorable conditions for farmworkers.

Newsom Seeks Faster Track for Home Insurance Rate Hikes as Market Shrinks

With wildfire risk and inflation destabilizing California's homeowners insurance market, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to fast-track new regulatory changes.

California Considers Making Sobriety a Mandatory Requirement for Shelter Access

Two new bills would allow state funding to support sober housing for unhoused residents, a significant departure from California’s current 'Housing First' law.
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$100 Million Gift Paves Way for Affordable Artist Housing in San Francisco

Plans for the 100-unit building on Market Street were filed with the city on Friday.

Immigration

Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing Gains Approval After Push by Newsom

The governor urged the planning commission to approve the 40-unit project, a little over a year after a mass shooting on two farms revealed deplorable conditions for farmworkers.

Key California Ag Giant and United Farm Workers Clash Amid Union-Drive Efforts

In California, a conflict has emerged between the Wonderful Co. and the United Farm Workers over worker organization under a new labor law. Since its enactment, four groups of farm laborers, including those from Wonderful Nurseries in Wasco, have sought to unionize.
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Half Moon Bay Mayor Calls Newsom's Legal Threat Over Farmworker Housing Unhelpful

Half Moon Bay is pursuing two low-income housing developments for farmworkers in the wake of the mass shooting on two mushroom farms last year. Gov. Gavin Newsom feels the process isn't moving fast enough.

A Family Fled Ethnic Violence in India. Its Echoes Resonate in the Bay Area

One year ago, the family of Bay resident Niang Hangzo fled violence in India. Hangzo started an organization to help raise awareness of the ethnic conflict as her mother and other family members wondered how to rebuild their lives.

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A person in a tie speaks at a podium.

First SF Mayoral Debate Continues to Crumble as Third Candidate May Drop Out

Daniel Lurie says he'll pull out of the mayoral debate organized by TogetherSF Action if it doesn't get an independent moderator as the group faces questions over its ties to the Mark Farrell campaign.

Family of Man Suffocated by Antioch Police Restraint to Get $7.5 Million Settlement

Antioch will settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of Angelo Quinto, who died after police kneeled on his neck in 2020.
People walk down a street with a college campus in the background.

Newsom's Budget Proposal Cuts $200 Million from UC and Cal State Funding

The latest version of the budget cuts funding by a combined $200 million for the state’s two public university systems.

UC Berkeley Encampment is Packing Up for Merced. Here’s What Admin Agreed To

The pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Berkeley is ending after an agreement with the university. Protesters plan to head to UC Merced for the regents meeting.
Tents are set up on the steps leading up to a building. A red-white-green-black Palestinian flag hangs from one tent. One banner hung from the building in the background says: 'An injury to Gaza is an injury to us all.' Another says: 'Divest.'

UC Stands Firm on $32 Billion Investment Plans Amid Pro-Palestinian Calls for Withdrawal

UC's chief investment officer disclosed the university's investments in assets tied to Israel during Tuesday's meeting of the system's board of regents.
Leftover seating in a parking lot with a rail system in the background.

With a Bid for Abandoned Coliseum Seats, Oakland Ballers Try to Connect With City's Sports History

The new Oakland Ballers independent baseball team hopes to incorporate a bit of Oakland sports history in its renovated ballpark as the club prepares for its opener next month.

Half Moon Bay Farmworker Housing Gains Approval After Push by Newsom

The governor urged the planning commission to approve the 40-unit project, a little over a year after a mass shooting on two farms revealed deplorable conditions for farmworkers.

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