The Northern Section Board’s January 2023 retreat balanced collaborative working sessions with team-building activities to focus strategic priorities and work programs on a year of action and engagement.
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Northern News is expanding its partnership with Island Press books to include author interviews, and the Northern News team is looking for aspiring Northern Section member volunteers to lead interviews with authors.
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Author Emily Marthinsen encourages people to see and to appreciate the significance, and the beauty, of Wurster Hall, now Bauer Wurster Hall, through its “context of ideas.”
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By Maryann Thompson, The San Francisco Standard, March 2, 2023 “There’s no doubt San Francisco is having one of the worst pandemic recoveries of any major U.S. city—even the mayor thinks Downtown SF may never be the same. So with 150,000 fewer workers Downtown, it would be reasonable to assume a drive to the city
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By Kevin Truong, The San Francisco Standard, February 28, 2023 “A California state Senate committee pushing for more funding for Bay Area Rapid Transit and other regional agencies has lost a member, with East Bay representative Steve Glazer calling it quits in a letter on [February 28th]. “Glazer, whose district spans Alameda and Contra Costa
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By Tyche Hendricks, KQED, February 24, 2023 “In the month since the January 23rd mass shooting — in which seven workers at a pair of mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay were shot and killed … farmworker housing has been a central concern here. And [Joaquín] Jiménez Ureña [vice mayor of Half Moon Bay] and
By Susie Nelson, San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 2023 “From 2010 to 2020, [Dublin] became a boomtown, growing its population from 46,000 to nearly 73,000 — a 58 percent increase. Dublin wasn’t just the fastest-growing city in the Bay Area over that time period; it was the fastest-growing city in all of California, and the
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By Katie Lauer, The Mercury News, February 9, 2023 “The Terminal One development — sandwiched between the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline and Richmond Yacht Club near Brickyard Cove — was poised to transform the dilapidated, lead-contaminated property into 92 single-family detached residences, 62 duplexes and 30 junior accessory dwelling units. “But after more than five hours
Nine years of controversy, hundreds of planned East Bay housing units — and now nothing Read More »
From MTC News & Media, February 9, 2023 “Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) and the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) … issued new research [on February 9th] revealing that there are 395 affordable housing developments in various stages of pre-development across the nine-county Bay Area that would create an estimated 32,944 affordable homes in one
