#SJ upends #homeless encampments, 2nd largest #CA city govt claims nearly 250 of nearly 400 rousted campers accepted offer of #taxpayer funded #shelter newly built temporary #housing arrangements
http://bayareane.ws/3JmVVoU #SharedStory #MercuryNews #GiftLink #SanJose
Alleged #Whistleblower Harassment #Lawsuit involving #SanLeandro #PublicOfficials sheds new light on mutual #Democrat dupes involved in #Oakland #FBI #PublicCorruption case.
Ex-San Leandro city manager lawsuit claims that that "federal investigation target" Councilmember Bryan Azevedo, and 2 other elected colleagues interfered with her duties, harassed her until she left employment after refusing to quietly approve public funding for a controversial “tiny homes” scheme by now #indicted #Waste #contractors under federal legal scrutiny.
Political pressure plot tie-ins involve elected officials linked to ex #OaklandMayor #ShengThao and her husband who apparently worked on behalf of their regional #Recycling contractor patrons hoping to add million$ to their #taxpayer teat tab for habilitating #homeless #TinyHome #housing units.
#MayorThao's home, that was owned by the local #CalWaste Solutions contractors, was raided by feds a year ago while she was embroiled in an unprecedented #recall campaign, which she lost. The ties to local Democrat party political officials became apparent in ensuing months, as details of friendships and feuds amongst those with mutual financial prospects in proposed homeless #housing schemes leaked and became clearer.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/08/04/what-a-lawsuit-by-former-san-leandro-city-manager-tells-us-about-the-fbi-corruption-probe/?share=aldonraclbbewpiyl2bg #GiftLink #SharedStory #BayArea #EastBay
https://eastbayinsiders.substack.com/p/former-san-leandro-city-manager-alleges #DirtyDeeds #GarbagePeople
Despite #DJT firing female fed official who released declining economic #statistics that contrasted #WhiteHouse narrative, new US mfgr stats emerge that further erode #GOP #CrimeFamily #PartyLine #PartyTime bluster as months of #factory financials reveal 5% declines across US industry.
Numbers don't lie, but the current American #President definitely does...
https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-factory-orders-declined-in-june-50f4b81b?st=BnUTfQ #WSJ #GiftLink #SharedStory #MurdochMedia
The #BigTech boom in #ArtificialIntelligence usage has also boomed the prices of #ElectricBills for millions, whether they had anything to do with it or not ..
https://wapo.st/3J6nouM #GiftLink #WaPo #BezosBrandNews #SharedStory
#SanLeandro CA teen charged with shooting & killing 17 yr old girlfriend in her bedroom, is freed from custody by empathetic judge who rejects #prosecution theory of intentional #murder.
#Prosecutors have refiled murder charges despite judge's ruling ending #Alameda county's no #bail hold, alleging Angelo Antonio Ray who purchased gun illegally for $500 was not only goofing off, but acted with #malice. Sheriff deputies claimed Ray told them teen couple were handling the stolen #pistol when he pointed and shot her in chest at very close range, apparently claiming he believed it was unloaded.
As Izabella Raquedan-Retuta staggered out of her bedroom dying, 18 year old Angelo told one her relatives "She got shot,” and when asked by a frantic aunt about the whereabouts of deadly weapon, said "Nobody cares".
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/08/san-leandro-teen-released-from-jail-after-judge-rejects-girlfriend-murder-theory/?share=seuuorecdilt0gandrie #GiftLink #SharedStory #GunsUSA
After over 130 yrs of providing food to America, ranging from #Pineapples to #Pears to #Peaches to #PetFoods, modern marketing #mismanagement puts #California cannery #DelMonte into big #Bankruptcy blaming "borrowing" binge that led to billions in 21st century debt.
Current company HQ claims they secured another nearly a billion in #loans to keep operating as they seek a buyer.
Once one of the great west coast companies, "Del Monte Plant No. 1" built in post earthquake #SanFrancisco was heralded as the largest #fruit and #vegetable cannery in the world, employing 2,500 people and producing 200,000 cans of Del Monte brand food per day.
Later, it became a subsidiary of RJ Reynolds tobacco, and owner of #SunKist oranges & #StarKist tuna. In 2006, Del Monte became the second largest pet foods corp by purchasing Meow Mix & Milk Bone brands, but since then, HQ moved to suburban Walnut Creek CA and many of the Del Monte operations & brands have been thinned out and sold off. In 2025 brands still include #Contadina, College Inn #soups, and since 2001, a similar subsidiary 100+ yr old #canning brand called S & W and a more recent foray into burgeoning bubble teas.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/del-monte-economy-food-fruit-vegetable-court-bankrupt-bay-area-jobs/?share=muabystysmrmasntycab #GftLink #SharedStory #MercuryNews
#BayArea #BBQ restaurant chain once had 6 busy locations, survived 40 yrs but after thriving in 90s, now down to single sit-down spot in #SanMateo
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/18/breaking-armadillo-willys-bbq-abruptly-closes-all-but-1-restaurant-location/?share=hmkalarlybsoohm1aswu #GiftLink #SharedStory
Overall #California officially tallies over 30,000 total job losses in first 4 months of year as #DJT admin economic policies took effect. Steepest #federal #employment eradications were in #BayArea where #DOGE & related job cuts to #Federal workforce outweighed other regions in state by 3 to 1.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/08/economy-jobs-government-federal-work-layoff-trump-bay-area-doge-musk/?share=5epr5n0sestopoctnnwc #GiftLink #SharedStory #Unemployment #Jobs
#DJT expected to quickly run to pals in #SCOTUS to overturn 3 judge panel's ban in US Court of International Trade to resume his chaotic #WhiteHouse wank off of tariff tirades that many experts agree exceeds executive branch authority to push puerile policies purely on whim.
Typically tariffs must be approved by Congress, but naranja nincompoop claims national emergency requires him to bypass longstanding legislative process.
The court refuted the executive branch excess succinctly as "Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs,” referring to the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/28/court-blocks-trump-from-imposing-sweeping-tariffs/?share=trctstrh2ontffth2mit #SharedLink #SharedStory #MercuryNews
#Facebook front office grabbed great publicity from its bold #billion dollar public #pledge to help solve the #BayArea #housing crisis, then after the cameras, clicks and likes disappeared so did it's phony commitment, as #Meta quietly cut the funding teat and #ghosted the topic.
Money did flow at first , as public entities provided matching funds, but #Zuggerfugger's #PaloAlto #SocialMedia #boardroom backed shills quietly cut and run, committing far less than a quarter of the publicly pledged total. The vast majority of money from Meta, a company lacking a corporate charitable arm, came back to their HQ, repaid as low 2% interest rate loans of up to $15m to developers, not actual donations.
5 years after the flurry of #publicity, the unfulfilled propaganda pipe dream went deferred, projects were few and far between, impacts largely lost and untold in a region still desperately in need of more affordable housing.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/23/meta-affordable-housing-donation/?share=sfsrsw3uc3tc3wn0term #GiftLink #SharedStory #SiliconValley #HousingCrisis
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