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  • 3 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Julia Haney |Rebecca McCarthy

    This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dig down about a mile or two in parts of the United States and you’ll start to see the remains of an ancient ocean. The shells of long dead sea creatures are compressed into white limestone, surrounding brine aquifers with a higher salt content than the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Jan 30, 2025 | richmondside.org | Julia Haney

    Wednesday night’s WCCUSD school board meeting was unexpectedly canceled when the district discovered it wouldn’t have a quorum. The meeting was an important one as the board had planned to vote on whether to cut $13 million from the 2025-26 and 2026-27 operating budgets. West Contra Costa Unified School District Area 2 Trustee Guadalupe Enllana had arranged to attend remotely — an option allowed under “just cause” in the Brown Act.

  • Jan 24, 2025 | richmondside.org | Julia Haney |Kenneth Howe

    The WCCUSD school board is expected to vote next week on whether to cut an additional $13 million from its 2025-26 and 2026-27 operating budgets by laying off employees, including 17 classroom teachers this year, and leaving positions unfilled. The equivalent of 43 positions this year and 47 positions next year will be impacted.

  • Jan 9, 2025 | richmondside.org | Julia Haney

    About 40 WCCUSD educators and some students attended Wednesday’s school board meeting to protest the district’s decision to reassign 22 teachers to new classrooms and positions mid-year to fill teacher vacancies.

  • Nov 19, 2024 | kalw.org | Julia Haney

    This story aired on the November 19 2024 episode of CrosscurrentsFifty years ago, developers planned to flatten the top of San Bruno Mountain, dump 350 million cubic yards of rock into the bay, and build a housing development. That was until a movement to preserve the land as open space and protect multiple endangered species halted most construction. What can the story of San Bruno Mountain tell us about the relationship between environmentalism and housing?

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