As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles, state Democrats are planning to tap $1.5 billion in bonds for wildfire preparedness just months after voters approved a landmark debt-spending plan for climate projects, as part of a special legislative session originally convened last month to counter the incoming Trump administration.
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When the Metropolitan Transportation Commission last month decided to permanently raise Bay Area bridge tolls by another $2.50, it was flying blind, lacking basic financial data to justify the increase.
Tragedy and a lack of workplace safety measures led one Silicon Valley lawmaker to call for tighter regulations to protect employees.
For Caltrain, its recent deal to sell 19 vintage diesel locomotives and 90 well-used passenger cars to an overseas city that will use them for a badly needed commuter train line is nothing but good news.
Not everyone sees it that way.
San Jose state Sen. Dave Cortese has introduced a bill to prevent state agencies selling decommissioned diesel trains for reuse after Caltrain authorized the sale of part of its diesel-powered fleet to Lima, Peru, last month.
Last week, CalMatters reported on six Yolo County farmworkers who claim that they were fired for leaving their jobs during a June heatwave.
During the California Gold Rush, there were 624 miners for every 1,000 people. But, it wasn’t the goldminers that made millions, it was the businessmen providing services.
This November, voters across the San Francisco Bay Area will be asked whether to back the largest affordable housing bond in California history — a $20 billion IOU aimed at building homes in the epicenter of the state’s housing crisis.