By Katy St. Clair Bay City News Photo: Ray Saint Germain In a time when many pre-teen antics are uploaded to TikTok and Instagram, a video out of Vallejo shared on social media last year holds something disturbing. In it, a sixth-grade girl stands in a school yard with her back to the camera, her long […]
“I had meetings with Krishna Abrams to discuss serious concerns about the DA’s discovery/evidence in criminal cases,” an employee at the DA’s office recently wrote in an op-ed and confirmed with me. “During these meetings, Abrams berated me, instructed that I do not document or send follow up emails, and advised, ‘that’s how cops get fired.'”
Another head scratcher is how anyone charged with writing up or overseeing contracts for a city is allowed to make $2 million dollar mistakes and keep their job. Because make no mistake, someone screwed up bigly.
(Photo Courtesy of SF Baykeeper) San Francisco Baykeeper, the non-profit environmental watchdog, filed a lawsuit in federal court in March against auto processor Amports, The Benicia Port Terminal Company and oil giant Valero for allegedly discharging petroleum coke into the Carquinez Strait at the Port of Benicia. Cut to Saturday, April 9, and the port […]
“We tried to stop the deal two years ago because that was what was in the best interest of the city and community,” said Morat. “And that’s still within the best interest of the city and the community. And you can fire us wrongfully. But you’re not going to silence the truth.”
District rules set a cap on such emissions at 15 pounds per day and a maximum of 300 parts per million. What the district discovered was that Valero had been emitting an average of 5,200 pounds per day and 19,148 parts per million.
On March 8, the Vallejo City Council will decide on whether or not to OK a $30 million dollar loan to redo and retrofit a nearly 60,000 square foot building on one of the most beautiful stretches of town, the waterfront. The 400 Mare Island Way site is the former home of a gigantic State […]
*Author’s note: It is a general rule that journalists do not cover suicides. Mainly this is because studies have shown the when suspected suicides are covered, suicide rates go up. This case initially appeared to have involved foul play, which I reported. It has since spiraled into other things, with many rumors, conjectures, and even […]
“Foggy Coal Train” by amtrak_russ is licensed under CC BY 2.0 It’s a worry that’s always been on the back-burner of Fresh Air Vallejo (FAV) and the Sierra Club: Trainloads of coal rolled in from the rest of country to Vallejo to load onto ships headed for China. Vallejo has the deep-port space required for […]