The Berkeley City Manager initiated a citywide hiring freeze earlier this week in order to help address a budget deficit heading into the next fiscal year.
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This week, the Environmental Protection Agency, OR EPA, said it is shuttering environmental justice offices and laying off hundreds of employees. On Tuesday, around 100 EPA employees and union representatives gathered in San Francisco to rally for the agency and its workers. KALW’s Mary Catherine O’Connor has more.
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The Concord City Council officially altered its residential tenant protection law last night with the required second reading of the updated ordinance and another vote on its implementation.
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San Jose is sweeping dozens of RVs and tents from an encampment near the city’s border with Milpitas, leaving some of the homeless residents there with no place to go.
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