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By Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, March 29, 2023 “From certain places on Darrel Sweet’s ranch near Altamont Pass, the world looks no different than it did 150 years ago. Wildflowers blanket the hillside. A ranch dog named J.J. chases squirrels across a muddy dirt track. Cows stand near a cattle pond, looking out at […]

By Becky Sullivan, NPR, April 21, 2023 “The Oakland Athletics have signed a binding agreement to purchase land in Las Vegas to build a new ballpark, signaling a move away from Oakland after more than five decades in the city.“If the move proceeds as planned, the A’s will become just the second Major League Baseball

By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2023 “Two distinct realities — vibrant activity and eerie emptiness — are juxtaposed at Transbay transit center, the three-block-long behemoth cloaked in curvaceous white steel located south of Mission Street, running from Beale Street to just shy of Second Street. “One of the Bay Area’s biggest infrastructure

By Adam Shanks, San Francisco Examiner, May 15, 2023 “In revisions to his state budget proposal released on [May 12], Newsom made no commitment to funding public transit operations and maintained about $2 billion in cuts to public transit capital funding — money that pays for infrastructure work like rail repairs and bus purchases —