Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. DA Price recall is misguided, premature The effort to recall District Attorney Pamela Price is misguided and premature at best, and racist and undemocratic at worst. There are two things that bother me a great deal about efforts to recall. First, it began just six months into her term; in no dimension is this a sufficient amount of time to declare someone is so egregiously failing at their job that it justifies a recall. This tells me that people with a lot of money did not like the outcome of the democratic vote ..read more

Riders traveling between Union City and Warm Springs/South Fremont stations on BART’s Green Line will be taking buses instead of trains this weekend as workers maintain the throughways, according to a BART press release. Related Articles Transportation | San Jose real estate war at BART site may need jury as mediation fails Transportation | Bay Area housing complex lands key loan despite sour real estate scene Transportation | BART commits to addressing elevator issues in new settlement Transportation | New $4.5 million East Bay trail path will connect bicyclists, pedestrians to BART Tra ..read more

FREMONT — An East Coast investment group has widened its shopping spree for Bay Area commercial real estate by grabbing some big properties in Alameda County for well over $100 million. The buying group paid $133 million for multiple buildings in Fremont and another big building in Oakland, documents on file with the Alameda County Recorder’s Office show. 41444 Christy Street, an office and industrial building in Fremont. (Google Maps) DRA Advisors, an investment firm, is listed as the managing member of the buying group for the buildings. The purchases in the East Bay and South Bay by th ..read more

The Bay Area is one of the great theater hubs of the nation, a breeding ground for new work and for the stars of tomorrow, so it’s no surprise that the road to Broadway for countless performers starts in the Bay. Musical legend Carol Channing grew up in the Bay Area, after all, graduating from San Francisco’s Lowell High School in 1938 before winning Broadway fame in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and her Tony award-winning turn in the original “Hello Dolly!” Last year’s “Camelot” revival on Broadway featured Oakland native and former Berkeley Shakespeare Festival artistic director Dakin Matthews ..read more

By Hanna Ziady and Peter Valdes-Dapena | CNN Tesla has abruptly fired the team running its electric vehicle charging business, raising doubts about the future of one of the largest US charging networks, which other carmakers, such as General Motors and Ford, have said they will also use. In social media posts Tuesday, several Tesla employees confirmed the layoffs, first reported by The Information. Tesla “has let our entire charging org go,” William Navarro Jameson, strategic charging programs lead at Tesla, wrote on X. A lack of charging infrastructure is one of the main barriers to widesprea ..read more

OAKLAND — The Alameda County Board of Supervisors opened the door Wednesday for the recall bid targeting District Attorney Pamela Price to fall to the November ballot. To the chagrin of Price’s opponents, the Board of Supervisors opted to wait until May 14 to set a recall election date. By doing so, the board gave themselves the flexibility to either call a special election for sometime between Aug. 10 and Sept. 16, or to push it off until the Nov. 5 general election. The move raises the possibility of a recall question with little — if any — precedent in Alameda County appearing on a ballot p ..read more

Fraudsters exploiting a change in the application process for the controversial H-1B visa have been shut down by a new rule, federal authorities say. After U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2020 imposed a new, two-stage application process for the visa intended for workers with specialized skills, unscrupulous businesspeople colluded to game the lottery-based allocation system, a spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration said. The new process was meant to slash application costs by letting companies submit initial $10 “registrations” to get prospective foreign workers into the H-1B ..read more

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Keep DA Price to preserve reform Re: “DA Price to face recall election” (Page A1, April 17). We need to call the recall fanaticism what it truly is. The recall of District Attorney Pamela Price is a political agenda of disgruntled ex-deputy district attorneys. Price’s justice reform is a solution to the failed tough-on-crime and mass-incarceration initiatives of old. In Alameda County, we need solutions, not more of the same failed policies. The fact that Price is willing to investigate the inhumane violence again ..read more

FREMONT — A Fremont apartment complex has been bought for more than $30 million in a deal that shows investors still seek to own multifamily housing in the Bay Area despite a tricky real estate market. The residential complex, called Mosaic Fremont by its new owner, was bought for $35.8 million, according to documents filed on April 25 at the Alameda County Recorder’s Office. The 122-unit Mosaic Fremont apartment complex located at 39867 Fremont Boulevard in Fremont, shown within the outline. Boundaries are approximate. (Google Maps) Harbert Management, acting through an affiliate, bought ..read more

35704 Conovan Lane – Google Street View A spacious house located in the 35700 block of Conovan Lane in Fremont has new owners. The 2,922-square-foot property, built in 1985, was sold on March 14, 2024, for $2,680,000, or $917 per square foot. This single-story home boasts a generous living space with five bedrooms and three baths. Inside, a fireplace enhances the ambiance of the living area. In addition, the house provides a garage. The property occupies a lot of 5,098 square feet. These nearby houses have also recently been purchased: In March 2024, a 1,939-square-foot home on Gleason Lane i ..read more