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CA Supreme Court upholds half-cent sales tax increase for childcare
KRON via Yahoo News· 2 weeks ago(BCN) — Backers of an Alameda County sales tax increase to fund child care are celebrating after a...
Thousands of Bay Area homeowners qualify for property tax cuts. What about SLO County?
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThousands of Bay Area homeowners learned they will receive automatic property tax cuts, but people...
A sales tax increase could be on the 2024 ballot. How would Sacramento use the money?
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSacramento residents could see another sales tax measure on the ballot in November 2024. The...
California’s mental health ballot measure is the best chance for change
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFor nine years, I begged Alameda County agencies to give my intermittently homeless and schizophrenic ward the care she needed to stay alive and well. Last September, some 12 years after I became ...
California taxed millionaires to fix its mental health crisis. Why it's fallen so short
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; photo: Ben Oreskes) Nearly two decades ago, California voters passed...
Tenants say a 3-year ban on evictions kept them housed. Landlords say they're drowning in debt
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoRetiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in...
Jury awards family $8.25M for cops’ cuffing, detaining, searching them unjustifiably
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Black family is $8.25 million richer after a California jury decided in their favor following an...
Twitter, Jeff Bezos, and Azealia Banks: Elon Musk's weirdest fights
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTesla CEO Elon Musk.Getty Images Elon Musk has a habit of getting into bizarre fights. He is headed...
Homelessness up in Bay Area, down slightly in San Francisco
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHomelessness increased nearly 9% in the San Francisco Bay Area over the last three years, despite...
Leaving for Las Vegas: The A’s and Oakland make it semi-official. Longest. Breakup. Ever.
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe news that the A’s are leaving Oakland, where they’ve been situated for 55 years, will come as a...