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Faced with growing criticism that his company’s best known products and services may be biased by its employees’ political views, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has urged those who work at the internet giant to keep their opinions on politics to themselves. According to the Wall Street Journal, Pichai sent a memo to Google’s employees, […]

Seventeen million people, almost half of California’s population, are renters. Many of them spend more than half their income on rent, plunging many full-time workers into poverty. The consequences of California’s skyrocketing rents are dire and unsustainable. People jam freeways, commuting long distances into cities they can no longer afford. Many Californians, including children, live […]

Following decades of underbuilding, California faces an unprecedented housing crisis. Housing scarcity is driving up costs for nearly 6 million renter households and could severely hamper the state economy. According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies, nearly 54 percent of renter households in California were cost-burdened, spending more than 30 percent of their income […]

Jimmy Funkhouser expects a swirl of conflicting emotions Sunday when he closes the doors to his store on Tennyson Street for the last time to make way for demolition and redevelopment, a trend that is radically altering the funky character of the Berkeley neighborhood. “I’ll probably be on the porch crying my eyes out,” said […]

CoPIRG, the consumer advocacy group, urged Colorado consumers to immediately freeze their credit reports with the three major credit bureaus after fees to do that were lifted on Friday. And while they are at it, they should also freeze their accounts with a lesser known bureau that cellular providers use. “Go ahead and do one […]

Colorado health officials are planning to take additional air samples near a Lakewood facility that was identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month as a place where gas emissions could potentially raise the risk for cancer. The tests will be conducted “in the coming weeks” to determine what effect Terumo BCT’s steps to […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — You won’t be able use PayPal anymore to buy fluoride-free toothpaste or a bottle of The Real Red Pill Plus from right-wing conspiracy promulgator Alex Jones. The digital payments company is the latest platform to ditch Jones and his Infowars site, which along with conspiracy theories peddles “I Stand With Trump” […]

A Muslim former Oracle executive of Pakistani origin is suing the Bay Area software giant, claiming a human resources leader at the firm harassed him over his ethnicity and immigration status while complaining that foreigners were taking jobs from Americans. Imran Syed, a Canadian citizen, alleged in his lawsuit that he was fired in retaliation […]

Colorado added 1,500 nonfarm job between July and August, but it was government employers who did the heavy lifting when it came to hiring, according to a monthly update Friday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Private sector payroll jobs were flat, while the public sector added 1,500 jobs. August is typically the […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Authorities in Taiwan arrested the owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3D printed guns who is wanted in the U.S. over an accusation that he had sex with an underage girl and paid her $500 afterward, official media reported. The Central News Agency said Taiwanese police found […]

For the first time in its history, the Bay Area has 4 million or more jobs, powered by a hiring boom in the nine-county region during August that marked the most robust month for hiring in more than two years, state labor reports revealed on Friday. Santa Clara County, the East Bay and the San […]

By Geoffrey A. Fowler | The Washington Post Hello there, savvy iPhone shopper. Ready for an upgrade? There are a few things you should know before emptying your wallet at the Apple store. It’s an especially confusing moment: Apple will sell no fewer than eight iPhone models in 2018. But they haven’t all gone on […]