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After 23 years, federal oversight ends for OPD (opens the original)
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Federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department began in 2003, following a civil rights lawsuit, dubbed the “Oakland Riders” scandal. In it 119 plaintiffs alleged that four police officers had planted evidence, falsified reports, made false arrests, and used excessive force, primarily against young Black men. The city settled for nearly $11 million and agreed to 51 reforms under the supervision of an independent monitor and a federal judge. Those reforms included improving citizen access to
Controlled burn on Angel Island leads to smoky San Francisco skies (opens the original)
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If you’re in San Francisco today, you might smell smoke. That’s because officials with California State parks and the Marin County Fire Department are doing a prescribed burn on Angel Island. The burn began Wednesday morning, and is expected to go til Thursday. Officials say they do controlled burns on a rotational basis to mitigate fire risk, and that they coordinate with the Bay Area Air District to minimize smoke impact. But users on Reddit started posting about the smoke by noon today. Accor
Berkeley City Council unanimously opposes Oakland coal terminal (opens the original)
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On Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing coal handling, storage, and transport in the Bay Area. It comes in response to a move the Trump Administration made in June, when it said it was going to give more than $700 million to the U.S. coal industry. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said coal is central to national security, domestic supply chains, and American energy advancement. $75 million of that was earmarked for a proposed coal terminal in West Oakland,
Push to re-open bathhouses in San Francisco continues (opens the original)
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In the 1970’s and early 80’s San Francisco was home to dozens of gay bathhouses. But by 1987, they had all been shut down. Now, the city has one official queer sex club: Eros, on Turk Street. But it’s a dry facility. If you want a steam room, a sauna, or a hot tub, you have to cross the bridge and head to Berkeley’s Steamworks. Since 2020, Board President Mandelman has introduced four pieces of legislation to help bring gay bathhouses back to the city. “The good news is that would-be operators a
New report says data centers aren’t AI’s biggest climate problem (opens the original)
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So far, much of the conversation about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the climate has revolved around data centers. But a new peer-reviewed study from the journal npj Climate Action shows that the way fossil fuel companies are using AI is having a far larger impact. Emily Atkin is a climate journalist who runs the newsletter Heated. She spoke to KALW about the study. "A lot of people don't know this, but big tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, they work directly with big
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