Probe of Fremont health care official California’s political watchdog agency is investigating a Fremont health care district official to determine whether he violated the state’s conflict-of-interest laws. The California Fair Political Practices Commission’s decision to investigate Wallace, made public last week, is the latest in a series of probes it has initiated after a July [...]
Contra Costa traffic court firing upheld A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Monday by a former Contra Costa County traffic court commissioner who said she was fired in retaliation for running against an incumbent judge. Under California judicial rules, the appeals court said, county courts manage their own personnel systems and decide qualifications for [...]
San Mateo Bridge to shut 2 Oct. weekends During the shutdown, crews will remove and replace the bridge decks on the part of the span between the elevated segment and the trestles, along with a cracked beam – part of an expansion joint – discovered during a routine inspection in October 2010. Caltrans conducted emergency [...]
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Hercules misspent millions, audits find City leaders in Hercules spent nearly $ 50 million of the city’s redevelopment agency funds on questionable transactions, many of which had missing or nonexistent records, according to a pair of audits released Wednesday by state Controller John Chiang. The audits largely point to a former city manager, who also [...]
A Chronicle Watch look back The eight storm drains that were clogged with debris and asphalt after a San Francisco Public Works Department supervised paving project on O’Shaughnessy Boulevard were all cleared within a two weeks after we called the city on the issue last month. The private company installing transponders BART cars hasn’t made [...]
Ambassador slain in Libya from East Bay J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate, attended Piedmont High School, UC Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. “Growing up in California, I didn’t know much about the Arab world,” Stevens said in [...]
Slain ambassador in Libya from East Bay J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate, attended Piedmont High School, UC Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. In a statement Wednesday, UC Hastings College of Law Chancellor Frank Wu said, The ambassador [...]
