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California Concerns Grow About Potential Wildfires
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
May 27 LAFAYETTE Wildfire season is here and with a drought making the fire risk especially high, a Lafayette city councilman is not happy with what one utility is doing to curb the risk.
A PG&E representative told the council that residents who want to report an outage or who have questions about service can call the utility and file a ticket, the term that the utility uses for logging a problem or complaint, for PG&E to follow up on.
The issue came up during a special council meeting on wildfires, when Councilwoman Gina Dawson noted that faulty PG&E equipment caused a major fire in Lafayette in 2019.
COVID economy: California unemployment claims rise slightly, stay below 100,000 [East Bay Times]
Apr. 22 Unemployment claims in California rose slightly last week and remained below 100,000 for two weeks in a row yet jobless filings are still far above what they were before the beginning of business shutdowns to combat the coronavirus.
California workers filed approximately 72,000 initial claims for unemployment during the week ended April 17, up about 3,000 from the prior week, a new report by the U.S. Labor Department stated.
The latest unemployment filings in California marked only the sixth time during the last 57 weeks that jobless claims were below 100,000. Government-ordered business shutdowns and restrictions began in mid-March 2020.
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PG&E: Several execs captured pay raises in 2020, SEC docs show
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
Apr. 9 Several top
PG&E executives harvested hefty increases in their pay during 2020, a year in which the company emerged from bankruptcy and caused a fatal wildfire in
Shasta County, a regulatory filing on Thursday shows.
William Smith, who was interim
PG&E chief executive officer during 2020, captured
$6.17 million in pay, as measured by his total direct compensation, according to a company filing with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Smith took over as interim and temporary CEO in
June 2020.
PG&E, a holding company whose principal operating unit is utility behemoth