Here's what's happening in the Bay Area, as curated by KALW news:
Marin delegates celebrate Trump nomination: ‘Like New Year’s Eve’ // Marin Independent Journal
“'It was like New Year’s Eve, only in triplicate,' a Marin delegate said of the moment New York put Donald Trump over the top as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.
“‘New York, New York was playing and everybody was swaying to the music and waving their banners and hugging each other,' said Karen Molden of Fairfax, a partner in the Lifestyle Designs Group in San Rafael and secretary of the Marin Republican Party.
"Molden’s fellow Marin Republican delegate, Heather Flick of Tiburon, emailed from the campaign floor, 'I can’t hear myself think over the constant cheers from the California delegation.'”
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Oakland: Residents offer support to independent police commission // East Bay Times
"As city leaders put the finishing touches on a proposed independent police commission measure, scores of residents flooded a City Council meeting Tuesday to demand the commission be controlled by citizens, not City Hall or police leaders.
"The council next week is expected to vote on sending the citizen police commission to voters in November, as councilmen Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo make late-minute amendments to their proposal.
"On Tuesday, the council took input from an array of residents -- a mother of a man killed by police, a woman stopped by officers in affluent Rockridge, labor groups and others who stood in support of what would be the city's most powerful civilian-run body overseeing the police department."
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Kaiser Permanente nurses protesting staffing levels // Mercury News
"Nurses at Kaiser Permanente will stage pickets at seven regional hospitals Wednesday to draw attention to staffing levels they say are affecting the quality of care and putting patients at risk.
"The pickets will include Kaiser hospitals in Oakland, Vallejo, Santa Clara and San Francisco, and will not result in work stoppages, said Katy Roemer, a registered nurse at Kaiser Oakland and board member for the California Nurses Association, which represents some 86,000 nurses statewide."
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Amid heated political sparring, San Francisco approves $9.6 billion budget // SF Examiner
"Despite heated exchanges with accusations of hypocrisy and extortion, the Board of Supervisors came together Tuesday to approve Mayor Ed Lee’s $9.6 billion budget and placed a sales tax increase on the November ballot.
"Controversy swirled for weeks over whether the board would support a .75 percent sales tax hike to fund transportation and homeless services after the proposal became entangled in a debate over a controversial homeless encampment measure on the same ballot.
"After initially backing the sales tax measure, Supervisor John Avalos vowed to revoke his support unless Supervisor Mark Farrell pulled the homeless encampment measure he placed on the ballot in late June. Avalos criticized the measure as 'mean-spirited' and a 'wedge issue.'”
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Warriors win judgment in fight over SF Mission Bay arena // SF Gate
"The Golden State Warriors’ push to relocate the basketball team from Oakland to San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood cleared a key hurdle Monday, as a judge ruled against a group that had filed multiple lawsuits to kill the project.
"On Monday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Garrett Wong ruled that the city’s environmental review of the proposed arena was adequate, rejecting arguments it had failed to consider environmental impacts, including alternative sites for the arena."
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Two Years On, Napa Quake Still Serving Up Surprises // KQED
"It’s been nearly two years since the South Napa Earthquake rocked the North Bay region — but the revelations keep on coming.
"Scientists say data from earth movements that occurred after the major shaking stopped show helter-skelter patterns unlike anything they’ve seen before."
