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What is Happening at Hogan Middle School? Vallejo School District Sued By Family of 11-Year-Old Girl Who Died By Suicide Due to Alleged Bullying
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 […]
Justice Is Blind, But Shouldn’t Turn a Blind Eye: Solano DA Krishna Abrams Put a Cop Busted for DUI on Stand and Didn’t Inform the Defense
“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.'”
Double Indemnity: Vallejo’s Pair of Million-Dollar Mistakes
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.
Before the Benicia Port Fire, SF Baykeeper Filed Suit Against Valero, Amports Alleging Illegal Petcoke Releases
(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 […]
Valero Tells Benicia City Council Its 15+ Years of Dangerous Emissions Didn’t Warrant Notification, Says It Didn’t Realize That Vent Needed To Be Monitored
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.
How a Proposed Police Station Became a Rorschach Test For a Town
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 […]
Independent Expert Also Rules Suicide In Green Case, But Many Still Insist There Had To Be Foul Play
*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 […]
Air Quality District Is None-Too-Pleased with Valero, Will “Air” their Dirty Laundry
Basically, if Valero doesn’t play ball, the air district will, er, air their dirty laundry publicly.
Vallejo PD Sends its 2021 Report to Department Heads, Read it Here
Larceny has highest increase, with 30 percent above last year
A House Divided: Long-Time Parishioners at Friendship Baptist Church Question Its Financial Transparency
“It’s something about those financial reports that they are hiding. I’m convinced of it,” said member Spearman. “I was a federal investigator, and I know that this is about the money.”