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Why CalPERS Is Being Pushed to Divest From Tesla

10/17/2024

Elon Musk, the tech mogul who runs Tesla, said in December that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts “must die.” Now, two civil rights groups are calling for the nation’s largest public pension fund to divest from the electric vehicle maker.

CA Ride-Hailing Drivers Could Get Back Pay

10/16/2024

Tens of thousands of California ride-hailing drivers, and possibly more, could eventually get back pay after a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that clears the way for the state and some cities to proceed with their lawsuits against Uber and Lyft.

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Recent Business Closures Are a Wakeup Call for San Juan Bautista

Lea este artĂ­culo en español aquĂ­.At a San Juan Bautista Planning Commission meeting back on Aug. 27, Chairman Jose Aranda said he had been told that one of the city’s businesses—“a major player here in town”—would likely close in a 


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Eat, Drink, Savor: Steakstop Helps Kick Off Food Truck Tuesdays in Hollister

Lea este artĂ­culo en español aquĂ­.It has been three years to the day since Joseph Elmhorst’s Steakstop became the first food truck licensed by Hollister to operate at a fixed location within the Hollister city limits. It was a groundbreaking 


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Local Thrift Store and Homeless Resource Closing in November

Local Hollister thrift store Worth Saving Mercantile, the anchor for Linda Lampe’s Food Angels program, will be closing its doors next month. The downtown location has served as a haven for homeless and food-insecure people for the last six years.

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Nursery Crops, Mushrooms Top Annual Santa Clara County Ag Report

Nursery crops retained their top spot in Santa Clara County in 2023, according to Santa Clara County’s latest Crop Report, with mushrooms clinging to the No. 2 spot despite a drop in crop value of almost 8% from 2022 due 


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County Planners Send Open Space Deal at Highways 129 and 101 to Supervisors

Lea este artĂ­culo en español aquĂ­.The Planning Commission sent a development agreement regarding the Ag Center project, proposed for the intersection of Highways 101 and 129, to the Board of Supervisors for discussion. On Sept. 18, the county planners were 


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Students Raise More Than $1M at Oct. 5 Livestock Auction

A highlight of this year’s San Benito County Fair in Tres Pinos was the Oct. 5 junior livestock auction, in which students raised more than $1.1 million.

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Harvest Time Roadhouse to Suffer From Mitchell Road Closure

Lea este artĂ­culo en español aquĂ­.Adam Jones, owner of Hollister’s Harvest Time Roadhouse, had been looking forward to the reopening of the Union/Mitchell Road intersection on Hwy 156. Since Caltrans closed the access to Union Road on Aug. 15 to 


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BenitoLink Joins Hollister Downtown Association’s Farmers Market

Lea este articulo en español aquĂ­.As the Hollister Downtown Association’s Farmer’s Market has been bringing loads of locals to downtown Hollister on Wednesday afternoons since April, BenitoLink decided to jump in on the fun. For the past month, San Benito 


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Hollister City Council Discusses Single-Use Plastic Ordinance

Lea este artĂ­culo en español aquĂ­.The Hollister City Council is considering an ordinance to reduce single-use plastics. To ease the financial burden on restaurants and other impacted businesses, the proposed ordinance would be implemented in three phases. The city is 


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California Fire Insurance Crisis: How the State Helps Homeowners
The state tries persuading insurance companies to cover homes in fire zones.
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Solar Power and California’s Clean Energy Goals
How the sun is helping push the state toward 100 percent renewable energy.
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Is California’s Housing Crisis Making Inequality Worse?
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How California Feeds the Country
California, a state known for high-tech and show business glitz, is also America’s farming powerhouse.
Zoning laws tell you what you can and can't build on the property you own. How does government get away with that?
How Zoning Laws Shape California and Society
Zoning is everywhere, but is it a way to regulate development or a tool for social engineering?
How California reclamation districts turned millions of acres of wetlands into fertile agricultural land, starting in the earliest days of the Gold Rush.
Reclamation Districts: Turning ‘Swamps’ Into Farmland
From its earliest days as a state, California has been trying to turn marshes into productive land.
Long-duration energy storage, such as this thermal energy storage facility, allows renewable energy sources to operate at full capacity without overloading the power grid.
How California Leads the Race For Long Duration Energy Storage
For renewable energy sources such as solar and wind to be viable, ways to store the power they create are essential.
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