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Oakland assemblywoman wins rare early endorsement from Gov. Gavin Newsom for AB 609, her landmark bill to exempt most infill housing construction from the California Environmental Quality Act.
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Berkeley state senator leads the push for $2 billion to bail out BART and other transit services whose ridership lags far below pre-COVID numbers. But Newsom in his revised May budget provides nothing.
Internet giant agrees to pay $50 million to 4,000 current and former employees to settle a lawsuit claiming it paid black workers less than whites. But Google’s parent company made $100 billion profit last year.
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