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Tree lighting of 135-year-old cypress marks longtime San Francisco tradition

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A historic 135-year-old Monterey cypress tree on the east end of Golden Gate Park is adding to the city's holiday spirit. San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the city's park manager, Phil Ginsburg, counted down a tree lighting Thursday night as the cypress lit up with 550 bulbs.The festive event was attended by hundreds of community members.The holiday tradition dates back to 1929, when 800 bulbs first illuminated the tree for John McLaren’s 84th birthday. McLaren, the park’s first superintendent, made many significant contributions to city parks during his lifetime. Nearly 100 years later, the tree-lighting tradition lives on. "The annual tree lighting epitomizes everything we love about our parks as places for celebration, connection and community. San Franciscans have gathered around Uncle John’s tree to kick off the holidays for nearly a century and every year just gets better," Ginsburg said. This year’s event included the lighting of a Chanukkah menora...

Dungeness crab season delayed by state regulators

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

(BCN) -- High numbers of migrating humpback whales spotted off the California coast in recent weeks have prompted state regulators to further postpone the commercial Dungeness crab season. The delay is aimed to protect whales and leatherback sea turtles from becoming entangled in crab fishing gear, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.On Thursday, the agency announced that commercial Dungeness crab fishing season would be delayed until at least Dec. 21, when the next risk assessment is done. Recent surveys have spotted "high concentrations" of humpback whales feeding on anchovy in fishing zone 4 off the coast of Monterey and Santa Cruz, according to the wildlife agency. Los Gatos police halt attempted theft at Lululemon, prevent loss of $4K in merchandise Last month, a Pacific leatherback sea turtle died after it was found Nov. 24 entangled in commercial crab fishing gear near the Farallon Islands. In addition, the department received a report Nov. 11 that ...

Industries that laid off the most workers off in October

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

As financial rescue efforts fade into the background, the U.S. economy faces dual crises of stubbornly lingering inflation and persistent uncertainty about a looming downturn stemming from central banks' own prescription for combating inflation: higher interest rates.Companies spent 2022 and 2023 pulling back on spending and new hires, moving forward cautiously. About 1.6 million people were laid off or fired in October 2023 nationwide, up about 2% from the previous month and about 8% from the same time last year. Los Gatos police halt attempted theft at Lululemon, prevent loss of $4K in merchandise Stacker used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to rank 19 major industries by the number of layoffs they had in October 2023. The analysis uses seasonally adjusted data. Numbers for the month are preliminary and may be updated.Canva#19. Mining and logging- October 2023 layoffs: 7,000--- Change from prior month: -2,000--- Change from October 2022: +3,000- October 2023 layoff rate: 1.1% (R...

First woman jumps into Silicon Valley congressional race

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

(BCN) -- The first woman has entered an already contested congressional race to replace Rep. Anna Eshoo in District 16.Palo Alto Councilmember Julie Lythcott-Haims officially announced her candidacy to fill the seat amid Eshoo's plans to retire at the end of her term. Lythcott-Haims is a progressive candidate with a mission to advocate for all residents, noting she brings a different perspective as a Black and queer woman. Palo Alto mail carrier robbed by 2 men; $150,000 reward offered Lythcott-Haims said her top priorities are affordable housing, youth mental health, climate change and the preservation of reproductive health care rights, voter rights and the right to choose who to love."Representation matters. I'm a woman, I'm Black, I'm queer, and I'm a parent," Lythcott-Haims told San Jose Spotlight. "We've been lucky in the Bay Area to have such an incredible legacy of female leadership. In the post-Roe era, why would we replace a female leader with a man?"She said she fells ...

AIPAC Donor Urges Jewish Republicans to Switch Parties to Vote Against Jamaal Bowman in Primary

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

Members of Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue in suburban Westchester County, New York, received an email Thursday afternoon from a group of congregants. “We are all looking to do what we can to help Israel in its time of need,” the email said. “I am part of a group in our shul which is focused on one singular thing we can all do—and that is helping to defeat our current Congressman Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary which will take place on June 25, 2024.”“It is critically important that if you are a registered Republican, at least for this election you should re-register as a Democrat so you can vote in the primary (against Bowman).”Bowman, whose New York district includes the Bronx and parts of Westchester County, is being targeted in his primary next year for criticisms of Israel and calls for a ceasefire in its war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. His challenger, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, is being backed by pro-Israel groups, including the inf...

The Rise and Rollout of AOC’s Green New Deal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

Ahead of the publication of “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution,” right-wing media outlets, in a series of reports in Fox News, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, and so on, wildly distorted the book. One of the chapters they mangled most aggressively was on the rise of the Green New Deal. Below is an adapted excerpt from Chapter 8: “It Is A Dream.”Not long after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her shock 2018 primary, Saikat Chakrabarti and Corbin Trent ventured to Washington, D.C., to scope things out. Both had started as volunteers on the first Bernie Sanders campaign, worked their way up the skeleton crew, then left to found what became Justice Democrats, and then threw themselves full time into electing Ocasio-Cortez in her primary campaign against Rep. Joe Crowley. Now they had made it to Washington as AOC’s chief of staff and communications director, and the first question everyone they ran into asked them was the same, a question born of both curiosity and a s...

I-70 west closed in Golden for undetermined time for semi crash

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The westbound lanes of Interstate 70 are closed at C-470 after a semitractor hit the underside of an overpass, blocking the roadway.The road was initially closed at about 11 a.m., and all traffic was rerouted from the westbound lanes onto eastbound (south) C-470. The official closure starts at milepost 260. See the latest traffic conditions in Denver on FOX31 The Colorado Department of Transportation and Colorado State Patrol Golden were investigating the crash.A semi-tractor hit the bottom of an overpass on I-70 on Friday. (Photo by Colorado State Patrol Golden.A semi-tractor hit the bottom of an overpass on I-70 on Friday. (Photo by Colorado State Patrol Golden.A semi-tractor hit the bottom of an overpass on I-70 on Friday. (Photo by Colorado State Patrol Golden.A semi-tractor hit the bottom of a bridge in Golden on I-70, causing a closure of the westbound lanes. Photo from CDOT's interstate cameras.CSP said an oversized load pulled by a semitractor hit the botto...

Boulder Sheriff warns of stolen Wyoming vehicle titles used in Colorado

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The Wyoming Department of Transportation and the Boulder County Sheriff's Office are warning of potential fraudulent vehicle titles being used in Colorado after a batch of blank Wyoming title stock was stolen earlier this year. Boulder community members could potentially encounter the fake vehicle titles, according to the sheriff's office, because detectives and the FBI recently encountered several of these stolen Wyoming titles while investigating motor vehicle thefts. 2 organized crime groups arrested after theft of more than 40 marijuana dispensaries WYDOT reported that the blank titles have control numbers ranging from 8790001 to 8790500, and have been used for criminal purposes in the state of Colorado. The control numbers can be found on the lower right side of the title in silver print with a security box around the number. The lower left side of the title will be marked “MV-301 (4/21)” with a round silver security seal to the right of the text, WYDOT report...

Suspect arrested, victim ID'd in deadly Gaylord Street shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Denver Police Department arrested a suspect in a deadly shooting that happened near Gaylord Street last Thursday, according to a release from Denver Department of Public Safety. At about 6:22 p.m. on Nov. 30, police responded to the 800 block of Gaylord Street on multiple reports of a shooting in the area. Denver police seek information in deadly Gaylord Street shooting Police found the victim, identified as 27-year-old Michael Milligan, suffering from at least one gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead, and the case was upgraded to a homicide investigation.The suspect, identified as Travis Jamahl Jackson, 38, was arrested Thursday afternoon. Police released the arrest affidavit, which revealed details about what happened that evening.Witness set up a marijuana deal with a crack cocaine dealerAccording to the affidavit, a 911 caller said that he and a friend were selling marijuana when his friend was shot.Mill...

Appeals court upholds gag order on Trump in Washington case but narrows restrictions on his speech

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:12 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday upheld a gag order on former President Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case but narrowed the restrictions on his speech.The three-judge panel’s ruling modifies the gag order to allow the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner to make disparaging comments about special counsel Jack Smith.But the court upheld the ban on public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the case.“By broadly proscribing any statements about or directed to the Special Counsel and the court’s and counsel’s staffs, as well as reasonably foreseeable witnesses or their testimony, the Order sweeps too broadly,” the court said in its opinion. “It captures some constitutionally protected speech that lacks the features or content that would trench upon the court’s proper functioning or ability to administer justice.”Trump, who has described the gag order as unconst...