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Besieged Berkeley chancellor’s home gets $700,000 protective fence
Twenty-four years after police killed a protester who had broken into the on-campus home of UC Berkeley’s chancellor and seven years after anarchists tried to burn the home down with the chancellor and his wife inside, the building now has
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San Francisco police chief out — mayor or fire chief next?
After a year of controversy over his officers sending racist and homophobic text messages and killing crime suspects in questionable circumstances, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr is gone, resigning at the request of Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday. The
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Gov. Brown’s stance on Prop. 30 tax extension still in limbo
Gov. Jerry Brown’s tune keeps changing when it comes to Proposition 30, the successful 2012 ballot measure that raised the state’s basic sales tax until the end of 2016 and income taxes on the wealthy until the end of 2018.
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San Francisco police chief may be in jeopardy
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr’s future has come into doubt in recent days as four members of his city’s 12-member Board of Supervisors have joined protesters in calling for his ouster. Now newspaper analysis pieces are wondering how long
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Report predicts surprisingly strong CA turnout in primary
The conventional wisdom holds that primary turnout in California is generally weak unless there is a particularly contested election of note or a high-profile, high-stakes ballot measure. This June 7, with the presidential nominations largely determined for both parties, most
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CA pollution credits may expand to troubled Brazil
In late 2012, as officials with the California Air Resources Board were refining rules for the state’s nascent cap-and-trade pollution rights program, a huge scandal was unfolding in the European Union. Five Deutsche Bank AG officials were arrested for their
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Oakland soda tax: For health or budget reasons?
The city of Oakland’s decision last week to put a penny-per-ounce soda tax on the November ballot was depicted by city leaders as a common-sense move to fund programs to combat public health problems related to obesity. “It is time
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Fear of PokerStars hangs over CA poker debate
California gamblers’ dream of having legal internet poker in the Golden State suddenly seems closer than ever, thanks to proponents’ decision to include in pending legislation a de facto subsidy of at least $60 million annually to struggling racetracks. But
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Defiant UC Davis chancellor’s days likely numbered
It’s growing difficult to imagine circumstances in which UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi — once considered a high-performing star who brought new resources and attention to her campus — will return to work from her present 90-day paid leave.
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L.A. County may assign syringe cleanup costs to Big Pharma
Next month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appears poised to require pharmaceutical companies to oversee and pay for the collection and disposal of syringes (known as “sharps”) and unused prescription drugs. The measure is unusual in that it assigns
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