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Denverites in need lose their housing as emergency Aloft hotel shelter closes

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

Unhoused Denver residents who have health problems face increasingly difficult days following the shutdown this week of one of the two hotels converted for government-backed temporary emergency protective housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.The 140-room Aloft hotel downtown has closed its doors, clerks confirmed Friday, saying this six-story building near the Convention Center now is undergoing “renovations” and won’t be re-opened until July — as a commercial hotel. Since January, city caseworkers have been tasked with helping about 124 people who were staying in Aloft find other shelters.Denver City Council members approved $13.3 million last year to fund extended use of the Aloft building for a six-month period that ended on Thursday. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 raised concerns about health risks in group shelters and city officials set up the emergency protective shelters — using federal pandemic relief funds — for residents with respiratory...

Despicable attack against Omar Harfouch, we give solidarity and support

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

Rome, April 28th, 2023 - "Our friend Omar Harfouch, esteemed member of the Scientificcommittee of our Institute, leader of the Lebanese Third Republic party, man, liberal and moderate, and our guest a little over a month ago for a conference on the future of Lebanon at the Chamber of Deputies, announced today that he risks being arrested if he returned to Lebanon - said Alessandro Bertoldi, executive director of the Milton Friedman Institute.The political authorities in power in Lebanon are said to have issued an arrest warrant against him, without any charges being brought by the judicial authorities, but justifying this arbitrary act with the words "Collaboration with the enemy!!!", and this because Harfouch held a conference in the European Parliament in which - according to them - "Israelis" were presentOmar Harfouch's international campaign for peace, secularism, democracy, freedom and civilrights in Lebanon, as well as his fight against corruption, the sectarian political sys...

Two students hospitalized after fight breaks out at Valencia High School 

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

A fight at Valencia High School sent two students to the hospital and brought a large police presence to the campus on Friday morning. Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department at the Santa Clarita Station responded to the school around 10:30 a.m. for a call regarding a fight between students. According to a statement from the William S. Hart Union High School District, two students were injured during the altercation. Parents upset over fights breaking out at Riverside schools "It is with sadness that we inform our community of a situation that occurred on the Valencia High School campus today where two students were involved in an altercation and injured," the statement said. "During the altercation one student was stabbed. Both students were transported to receive medical care and law enforcement is involved."The district also confirmed that the school was put on lockdown while first responders were on site. The lockdown has since been lifted, as there is ...

Local nonprofit helps autistic students land Hollywood jobs

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

A nonprofit named Exceptional Minds is helping students with autism channel their creativity into a Hollywood career. What’s unique is that the Sherman Oaks based organization is one part school and one part animation house.That means graduates can start working immediately on freelance gigs while they look for a full-time job.Instructor Alyssa Zelman teaching class at Exceptional Minds"We’re teaching them things like 2D animation, 3D animation, game level design," said Exceptional Minds Academic Dean Timothy Dailey.The Los Angeles area nonprofit school uses the latest technology to teach."We’re basically learning and dealing with everything that we’re going to be using whenever we get into new jobs," said student Stefan Morgan.Students are taught job skills and skills for a job."It’s cool finding out that I’m not alone and there are people I can talk to," said Matthew Rhode, a student at the academy.Exceptional Minds caters to neurodiverse students, specifically those on the autism...

2 Arrested after Police Pursuit on Highway 180 [Fresno, CA]

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

1 Hospitalized after Traffic Crash at CorneliaFRESNO, CA (April 28, 2023) – Thursday morning, police pursuit on Highway 180 and Cornelia left one person hurt.The robbery first happened at around 3:00 a.m. at a Northwest Fresno Chevron.According to police, the suspects were fleeing from the scene and police were chasing them.Consequently, the suspects drove through the intersection on Highway 180 at Cornelia when a vehicle driven by a woman struck the side of their vehicle and ended up in the fields.Furthermore, the female driver suffered major injuries and was transported to Community Regional Medical Center.Meanwhile, the suspects, identified as two teenagers, tried to flee the scene but were caught by the officers.Both of them were arrested and taken into custody. Lanes on Highway 180 at Cornelia were blocked for an hour before it was reopened.Those with further information regarding the accident are encouraged to contact local authorities as soon as possible.Make our roads ...

California bans sale of diesel big rig trucks starting in 2036 in landmark air pollution rule

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

California air regulators on Friday approved first-in-the-nation rules to ban the sale of new diesel big rig trucks statewide by 2036.The rules approved unanimously by the California Air Resources Board also require companies in California with more than 50 trucks to convert their truck fleets to zero-emission vehicles by 2042.The historic vote to require new trucks to run on electricity or hydrogen fuel cells — sending diesel the way of leaded gasoline — is the latest step in the slow, but steady phase-out of fossil fuels in California, designed to reduce smog and greenhouse gases that are causing climate change. Last year, the air board, most of whose 16 members are appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, voted to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-burning passenger vehicles in California in 2035.“This is an absolutely transformative rule to clean our air and mitigate climate change,” said Liane Randolph, chair of the board.Industry groups opposed the rules and said...

Four-bedroom home sells for $2.9 million in Los Gatos

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

15 Roberts Road – Google Street ViewA 2,514-square-foot house built in 1996 has changed hands. The spacious property located in the first block of Roberts Road in Los Gatos was sold on April 13, 2023, for $2,880,000, or $1,146 per square foot. The property features four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a garage, and two parking spaces. There’s also a pool in the backyard. The unit sits on a 5,750-square-foot lot.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:In September 2022, a 2,403-square-foot home on Serra Court in Los Gatos sold for $2,850,000, a price per square foot of $1,186. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Towne Terrace, Los Gatos, in November 2022, a 1,527-square-foot home was sold for $2,600,000, a price per square foot of $1,703. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 846-square-foot home on the 200 block of Thurston Street in Los Gatos sold in November 2022, for $1,100,000, a price per square foot of $1,300. The home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathrooms. 

Will an S.F.-style fentanyl crackdown happen in San Jose?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

With the fentanyl crisis reaching epidemic proportions, a renewed push in the Bay Area seeks to stem the steady supply of a deadly drug that has wreaked havoc across the country.On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom officially tasked a cadre of California National Guard and California Highway Patrol officials to fight the rampant rise of fentanyl in San Francisco. Now, leaders from Northern California’s largest city say they, too, would welcome state help.“The enforcement side is incredibly important,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in an interview. “We are really understaffed. So do we need more help there? Yes.”In San Jose, 96 accidental overdose deaths were attributed to fentanyl in 2022, according to data from the Santa Clara County Coroner dashboard. San Francisco had 620 accidental fatal fentanyl overdoses, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner — 85% more deaths than San Jose, which has about 200,000 more residents.At the same time, M...

Tucker Carlson: How early rejection by hippie San Francisco mom made him shameless

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

Before Tucker Carlson’s shocking ouster from Fox News Monday, observers sometimes said he owed his massive success on the network and in America’s extreme right-wing circles to his unique ability to be shamelessly provocative.A 2022 New York Times profile of Carlson described his on-air technique as  “gleefully courting blowback” for touting racist, white nationalist views or for being one of the “most visible and voluble defenders of those who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol to keep Donald Trump in office.” The more Carlson doubled-down at Fox, the more his millions of nightly viewers embraced him as an “aggrieved” partner in their perceived “victimhood,” the Times said.In interviews over the past few years, Carlson has suggested that he developed his extremely thick skin for cable news success because of his mother — or rather, because of the terrible thing his mother, former San Francisco socialite-turned-artist Lisa McNear Lombardi, did to him as a 6-year-old.“I b...

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Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:44:24 GMT

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