Bay Area Headlines, Monday, 2/28/22

KALW | By Kevin Vance,

Sunni Khalid

Published February 28, 2022 at 4:44 PM PST

The Santa Clara City Council voted Thursday night to fire City Manager Deanna Santana, who had challenged the San Francisco 49ers football team in a series of multi-million dollar disputes / U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was back in California last week to promote legislation addressing the homelessness and affordable housing crises in his home state / San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo proposed Thursday that the city lifts its requirement that people show proof they have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose / Governor Gavin Newsom Friday ended all but about five-percent of his COVID-19-related executive orders.

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Kevin Vance

Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him. When he's not on the radio, then he's selling books, taking care of his family, listening to music, entering stuff into a computer, or taking a class.

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Sunni Khalid

Sunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism.

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