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2 months ago | 
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NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde said the network is planning to launch a premium subscription service for news as soon as late 2025. At Semafor’s Innovating to Restore Trust in News Summit on Thursday, Conde said the new service would be “laser-focused” on premium video, “in all shapes and forms, short-form, long-form.”Conde maintained that some news content will remain free and ad-supported.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
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There once was a tradition among queer activists fighting for same-sex marriage rights: Every year around Valentine’s Day, gay and lesbian couples would troop to San Francisco City Hall and request marriage licenses. Every year, they were rejected. Until Feb. 12, 2004. That morning, the answer was yes. San Francisco’s “Winter of Love,” when the city defied federal and state laws for 29 days and allowed same-sex couples to marry, added spectacle to what was then a simmering civil rights movement.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
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“I became concerned with the idea that if I didn’t somehow figure out a way to live peacefully, eventually someone bigger than me was going to come around,” she said. Hers is hardly a unique experience. A study out this month found that trans and nonbinary adults face staggering rates of violence in California, even as the broader population has reported a dip — underscoring how life in even the most welcoming states is still often fraught for trans people.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
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The workers charged with keeping critical medical equipment online at a Santa Clara County-owned hospital are about to be out of the job — and hospital staff fear patients could pay the price. The 17 engineers at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose are members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 39.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
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The workers charged with keeping critical medical equipment online at a Santa Clara County-owned hospital are about to be out of the job—and hospital staff fear patients could pay the price. The 17 engineers at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose are members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 39.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
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The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, a broadsheet daily that serves California’s Wine Country, is a community newspaper first and foremost. It devotes more of its coverage to than to the fiery rhetoric of the war on woke. And high school sports are a big deal. So when editor John D’Anna, sixty-three, found out that a transgender girl was competing on the high school’s girls track team, he wanted to profile her. But her coach discouraged it, and her family didn’t respond to the paper’s inquiries.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
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Tens of thousands of people treated at Santa Clara County-owned hospitals may now qualify to have their medical debt erased. This comes in the wake of a June lawsuit settlement that accused Santa Clara Valley Healthcare of charging needy patients for care they should have received for free. The county said yesterday it has begun notifying patients who should have been eligible for “charity care,” reduced-cost or free medical services for low-income people.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
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A powerful San Jose commission that in recent years faced criticism over its lack of diversity is beginning to look more like city it serves. But one member is bemoaning the choice of another man to lead the majority-male panel. “It was a missed opportunity,” Planning Commissioner Pierluigi Oliverio told San José Spotlight. Oliverio, from the wealthy, majority-white enclave of Willow Glen, chaired the commission since last summer.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
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HUNDREDS OF NEW apartments could soon spring up in Los Gatos, as town officials continue revising plans to increase housing. Regulators still haven’t approved Los Gatos’ “housing element” — the state-mandated plan that lays out how towns and cities will help accommodate the state’s affordable housing goals. But builders are still pushing ahead. The town’s initial housing element draft was submitted one day before the deadline in January.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
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Hundreds of new apartments could soon spring up in Los Gatos, as town officials continue revising plans to increase housing. Regulators still haven’t approved Los Gatos’ “housing element”—the state-mandated plan that lays out how towns and cities will help accommodate the state’s affordable housing goals. But builders are still pushing ahead. The town’s initial housing element draft was submitted one day before the deadline in January.
