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Latest Line: A good week for homeless solutions, a bad week for outrunning COVID infections

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

Santa Clara homelessA new study found modest financial efforts to prevent homelessness were successful in Santa Clara County. At-risk families receiving assistance were 81% less likely to become homeless within six months and 73% less likely within a year.    COVID-19The virus is on the rise in California and across the Bay Area, with reported positivity rates doubling from June to July. Even our most cautious public health officers, Santa Clara County’s Dr. Sara Cody among them, finally came down with it.   Pac 12The long-storied college football conference was on the brink of extinction this week amid a mass exodus and fizzling media deal. But could Cal and Stanford end up joining the stacked Big Ten? 

They said it: No bullies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

“It is important for jurors to deliberate with each other in good faith and not to bully or antagonize other jurors.”— U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman warning the jury hours before declaring a mistrial Thursday in the case of Scott Shaw, San Jose State’s former head athletic trainer accused of sexually assaulting female athletes during treatment sessions.

Hollywood weighs in on the A’s: Sell the Team!

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

Ryan Fleck is a screenwriter/director whose credits include Captain Marvel, Oscar-nominated Half Nelson, and the baseball film, Sugar. He received an Emmy for his work on ESPN’s 30 for 30 series about the 1989 World Series. His latest movie, Freaky Tales, was filmed entirely in the Bay Area and will be released in 2024.Ryan Fleck The first time I went to an A’s game was in 1982. My summer day camp took all of us kids on a field trip to the Coliseum via BART. We sat in the third deck and I could see the Oakland hills just beyond the outfield ice plants and bleachers.I was five so my attention often drifted away from the action on the field. There were the vendors shouting “popcorn here!” and throwing peanuts. There were actual cash bills being handed to strangers who passed the money on to the strangers next to them. In return came a cardboard cup of ice cream with a little wooden stick. It was miraculous!I didn’t understand baseball yet but it didn...

Roadshow: Is extending bulb life enough reason to turn off blinker in dedicated turn lane?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

Q: As far as using one’s turn signal at a dedicated left turn lane with its own signal, I use my signal before entering that turn lane and then turn it off while waiting for a green left turn arrow. The reasons are because I don’t like hearing the blinking and I’m trying to save the bulb so that it doesn’t have to be replaced. I hope that I don’t get cited for not having it on in a dedicated lane with its own light.Marcia Citta, SaratogaA: A few others do this, as well.Q: Having lived, and driven, in both Tanzania and Switzerland, I’m stunned at American drivers who don’t use turn signals. You’d NEVER find a European-trained driver not using their signals. Even in Tanzania, people use either blinkers or hand signals all the time.As a cyclist I always use signals. I’ve got four of them:Right turnLeft turnStopping$&#(@*&$The last one I don’t use very often! I try to remain polite.Thanks for a great columnJim ThurberA:...

Taxi workers to protest expansion of driverless cars in San Francisco

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

(BCN) -- The San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance is planning a protest at the headquarters of the California Public Utilities Commission on Monday against expansion of autonomous vehicle fleets in the city. Taxi drivers and their supporters hope to stop the commission from lifting current restrictions and allowing Waymo and Cruise to offer driverless commercial passenger service 24/7 anywhere in the city. The commission, which is responsible for regulations of autonomous vehicles or AVs, has called a meeting Monday to discuss AV interference with first responders, and is set to vote on granting expanded operations Thursday. Richmond day spa under investigation for bacterial illness, Contra Costa Health says "Taxi drivers are the canaries in the coal mine in the coming AI onslaught," Mark Gruberg, a member of the Executive Board of the San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance, said in a statement Saturday. "Our jobs may go first, but yours could be next." The San Francisco...

Horse dies after winning race at Sonoma County Fair

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

(BCN) -- A 3-year-old filly died after running in the opening day of the Santa Rosa Races at Sonoma County Fair. According to the official race chart, the horse, Danehill Song, was entered in race 6 on Thursday. Danehill Song went ahead early in the race and maintained a decent pace, before losing the lead to another horse. This led to a chase into the stretch, causing Danehill Song to take a bad step. The California Horse Racing Board said she was transported by an ambulance from the county fair. Richmond day spa under investigation for bacterial illness, Contra Costa Health says Details on the horse's injury were not available, but the horse racing authority only listed the death as "musculoskeletal," meaning a bone injury. Animal rights group Kill Racing Not Horses said in a statement Danehill Song's death is the 47th fatality in California's 2023 horse racing season, which began in December. She is the 7th racehorse also to pass away in fair races in the state, the ...

¿Por qué EE.UU. arrojó bombas nucleares sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

(CNN) — El 6 de agosto de 1945, Estados Unidos lanzó la primera de dos bombas atómicas sobre la ciudad japonesa de Hiroshima, matando a más de 70.000 personas al instante.Una segunda bomba siguió tres días después sobre Nagasaki y mató a 40.000 más.Estados Unidos sigue siendo el único país que ha utilizado una bomba atómica en una guerra.La guerra nuclear marcó el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y un capítulo devastador en la historia mundial. Esto es lo que necesita saber sobre los ataques.El bombardeoEn 1945, Hiroshima tenía entre 300.000 y 420.000 personas, según el Departamento de Energía y el sitio web de la ciudad de Hiroshima.El entonces presidente Harry S. Truman autorizó el ataque a Hiroshima. El bombardero B-29 de EE.UU., el Enola Gay, lanzó la bomba nuclear, con nombre en código “Little Boy”, el 6 de agosto de 1945.¿Por qué lo hizo?Los científicos estadounidenses que trabajan en el Proyecto Manhattan habían probado con éxito una bomba atómica en julio...

Death toll from southern Pakistan train derailment rises to 30, with 60 injured, officials say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Death toll from southern Pakistan train derailment rises to 30, with 60 injured, officials say.Source

Rescue organization Hope for Horses opens in Stafford

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

STAFFORD, Va. (AP) — Grace Purdum was happy when the thoroughbred mare known as Mare #1 kicked her in the leg one morning.“In our industry, that’s a good thing,” said Purdum, the president of Hope for Horses, a horse rescue and sanctuary that opened last year in the Hartwood area of Stafford County. “I say that openly, because it means she is feeling so much better that now she’s ready to start training.”Mare #1 and her companion, River Rapids, were among 140 horses that were rescued from a breeding facility in Shenandoah County. The animals were malnourished and living in poor, crowded conditions.Purdum, who with her husband Scott also operates Advantage Horsemanship, said she learned about the situation from contacts at Central Virginia Horse Rescue. She told them she could take two of the rescued horses.“They said, ‘Do you want stallions? Pregnant mares? Weanlings? Yearlings?,’” Purdum recalled. “I said, I want none of that! So they said, ‘That means you’re getting the worst-case...

‘This is not a warzone.’ DC acting police chief says 3 dead, 4 injured in mass shooting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:22 GMT

The Metropolitan Police Department is responding to a shooting in Southeast Saturday night, police said. (Christian Flores, 7News) The Metropolitan Police Department is responding to a shooting in Southeast Saturday night, police said. (Christian Flores, 7News) Three people have died, and at least four others have been hospitalized Saturday, in what D.C. Acting Police Chief Pamela Smith called a senseless act of violence in Southeast.“Let me be clear: this gun violence has to stop,” Smith said. “It is incredibly frustrating. We know that someone in the community knows what’s happening.”Officers responded to the shooting near the intersection of Good Hope Road and 16th Street SE betwee...