By Sally French | NerdWallet For folks planning July Fourth vacations, prepare for crowds. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened a record number of passengers in 2023, and those records are likely to be broken in 2024. In fact, in the first two months of 2024, travel volumes were roughly 6% higher than the same period in 2023, according to the TSA. With the expected big crowds in mind, are some days better for air travel than others? In 2024, July Fourth falls on a Thursday, which puts a wrench in predicting travel crowds. Will folks take the Friday after off to enjoy the l ..read more

California, we have a job-loss problem. All the noise about rising California layoffs – especially at technology companies – is adding up to real pain. Consider a Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis of household employment surveys that shows 482,700 Californians lost their jobs in the year ending in the first quarter. My trusty spreadsheet found California job losses are No. 1 in the nation, though the state was followed by other economic heavyweights. Texas was No. 2 at 274,900, then New York at 220,600, Illinois at 155,700, and Florida at 141,900. And these job cuts were California’s worst ..read more

Dustin Mulvaney, SJSU environmental studies professor, stands at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thurssday, May 2, 2024. Mulvaney believes California has far more than enough alternative space, including parking lots, contaminated land and other areas, that there’s no need for massive solar arrays in pristine areas such as the Mojave Desert. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)  Turn on your toaster, bulldoze a Joshua tree. Flip a light switch, feed an endangered tortoise to a badger. Solar power, widely seen as humanity’s best hope for avoiding catastrophic climate change, can carry ..read more

Todd Ament, former CEO of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, at an event in 2011. (File photo by MARK RIGHTMIRE, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER)  It was a tragically banal slice of vicious, small-time power brokering. Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream. Yes, the saga of Isa Bahu and his family’s gas station reads like a bad dime store novel. But it could cost Anaheim millions nonetheless. A lawsuit filed against the city and former Anaheim Chamber of ..read more

The presidential election will be fought in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. But President Biden’s reelection campaign will be paid for, in no small part, by Bay Area billionaires. Biden, who landed at Moffett Field on Thursday evening, planned to meet and greet Silicon Valley’s tech elite at two megawatt fundraisers on Friday: one in Portola Valley at the home of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and the other with former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in Palo Alto. “You come to the ATM of California to tap into the dollars from tech zillionaires,” said David McCu ..read more

By Phillip Molnar | San Diego Union-Tribune Nearly all of Campo has been for sale since 2019 — without a buyer in sight. Now, a new real estate team has taken over the task of selling almost the entire unincorporated community, which is a little more than an hour from San Diego. The sale would include 28 buildings, a mix of former Army barracks turned into apartments and single-family homes, as well as commercial properties. The price has increased to $6.6 million, up from $5.5 million five years ago. Rents have increased across more than 20 residential units and seven commercial buildings in ..read more

The Metropolitan Oakland International Airport will be renamed the San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, following a unanimous vote by the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners on Thursday. The move has already met with strong criticism from officials at San Francisco International Airport, and is almost certain to result in legal battles over whether the new name infringes on SFO’s existing brand. The decision to rename the airport was based on the airport’s location on San Francisco Bay and its proximity to numerous notable locations, such as Wine Country, several colleges and un ..read more

OAKLAND — East Bay officials fired back with a lawsuit against San Francisco in the latest twist arising from an increasingly tangled legal war over a quest to rename Oakland International Airport. The Port of Oakland is attempting to rename the East Bay aviation hub as San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport in a push to dramatically raise the worldwide and online profile of the travel complex. San Francisco sued Oakland on April 18, claiming that the intended new name for the East Bay aviation complex would cause confusion and infringe on the trademark status of the name San Francisc ..read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening Half Moon Bay with potential legal action if city officials continue delaying approval of a 40-unit farmworker housing project more than a year after seven local farmworkers were killed in a mass shooting that exposed deplorable living conditions at some farms along the coast. Last week, the city’s planning commission, citing concerns about the project’s design, voted to push back a decision on an affordable housing complex at 555 Kelly Ave. The developer has said that if project plans aren’t finalized soon, it could mean losing out on the public funding needed ..read more

Google and Rivian Automotive have decided to trim more tech jobs in the Bay Area, official state government filings show, a disquieting reminder that the crucial industry continues to hunt for ways to slash labor costs. Related Articles Economy | Downtown San Jose visit activity soars, Oakland jumps, San Francisco nosedives Economy | Record wave of Americans fled big cities for small ones in 2023 Economy | Southern California pay hikes trail Bay Area raises for 1st time in 3-plus years Economy | Intel, Amazon, Kaiser, EV charging firm chop hundreds of Bay Area tech jobs Economy | Purple ..read more