Bay Briefing: This is a vaccine for our land
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Volunteer Jiordi Rosales leaves a trail of fire with a driptorch during a preventative vegetation burn in Healdsburg.Alvin A.H. Jornada / Special to The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, April 27, and we’re tracking what’s changing in Bay Area transit. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
A little bit of fire to prevent much worse
Dripping small flames from handheld fuel canisters, two dozen people began setting fire to 35 acres of dense brush near homes atop a ridgeline rising out of Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma County the other day.
Assemblywoman seeks to wipe out unemployment debt for those paid in error
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Visitors to the Department of Labor are turned away at the door by personnel due to closures over coronavirus concerns in New York in March 2020. The surge in weekly applications for benefits in the opening weeks of the pandemic far exceeded the previous record set in 1982. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
ALBANY Thousands of New Yorkers who have been told to repay unemployment or federal pandemic assistance benefits that they received improperly would see those debts wiped out under legislation being proposed by a state lawmaker from the Bronx.
So you want to leave California for Texas? Think again
Dennis Herrera
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Companies fixin’ to leave California for Texas just got a wake-up call.
Sure, taxes are cheaper in the Lone Star State, but as in most things in life, you get what you pay for.
Texas’ infrastructure and its leadership simply weren’t up to the task of dealing with a winter storm that was both historic and predicted. Besides killing at least 26 people and bringing misery to millions of Texans, this storm laid bare the painful cost of a free market electrical grid and the “Republic of Texas” ethos that eschews regulation and community investment.