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Golden Gate Bridge safety net is 80 percent complete

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

(KRON) -- According to the Bridge District, an average of 30 people or more die from suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge a year. This week, the death of a missing Netflix engineer was ruled a suicide after his body was found northeast of the bridge. A physical barrier to stop people from harming themselves has been under construction for the past few years. The net is 80 percent complete and on track to finish the project around the end of this year.Director of Public Affairs at Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz explains the Golden Gate Bridge district crew is now working to install netting on the south end of the bridge."We have netting installed on the east and west sides of the bridge between the two towers at the north approach viaduct," said Cosulich-Schwartz.With progress after delays in construction over the years and in recent weeks, contractors replaced fencing after someone got hurt. Nancy Pelosi says she’ll seek House re...

Officials move forward with Cerone Yard housing proposal in San Jose

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

(KRON) -- Officials recently approved a proposal to build more housing in San Jose. Mayor Matt Mahan tweeted Friday that his plan to build housing at the Cerone Yard is one step closer to coming to fruition. After 3.5 hours of debate at VTA last night, we took an important step in the long road to ending homelessness. I want to thank my colleagues and the dozens of residents who came out to speak in support of placing 200 units of interim housing on the Cerone site. Special shoutout… pic.twitter.com/mxIzqRSHmW— Mayor Matt Mahan (@MattMahanSJ) September 8, 2023The site, located at the southeast corner of Zanker Road and State Route 237, will provide 200 emergency temporary housing units and will keep unhoused people off the streets. Big changes to BART service schedule starting Monday "This shelter is far cheaper and more efficient to deploy than the status quo approach," Mahan said on X. "The situation on our streets is a crisis – and it’s time we act like it."Earlier this ...

Rhode Island eases by Stony Brook 35-14; Kasim Hill throws for 299 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

KINGSTON, R.I. (AP) — Kasim Hill threw for 299 yards and two touchdowns, Darius Savedge had eight catches for 90 yards and a score and Rhode Island eased past Stony Brook 35-14 on Friday night for its third straight win in the series.Rhode Island built a 28-7 lead by halftime. Hill was 12 of 16 for 243 yards and two touchdowns in the first half and Jaden Griffin added a short touchdown run. Hill connected with Marquis Buchanan for a 70-yard touchdown and DB Jordan Colbert returned a fumbled 49 yards for a score to cap the first-half scoring.Ja’Den McKenzie added an 18-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter for Rhode Island. Buchanan, who topped 100 receiving yards in his first college game last weekend, finished with one catch but Kahtero Summers had three catches for 103 yards, including a 70-yard play.Rhode Island (1-1, 1-0 Colonial Athletic Association) won its fifth straight home game dating to last season. Stony Brook (0-2, 0-2) has lost eight straight games and hasn’t ...

Lynch’s 3 TDs lead Division II Barton College past Davidson 33-31

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

DAVIDSON, N.C. (AP) — Jaquan Lynch threw for 285 yards and a score, and he added two touchdowns on the ground to lead Division II Barton College past Davidson 33-31 on Friday night.Barton, in just its fourth season as a Division II program, avenged a 37-17 loss to the Wildcats last season.Davidson (0-2), which lost to VMI 12-7 in a season opener, had a 13-game home winning streak snapped. The Wildcats had won their last seven home openers dating to 2016.Barton scored 20 unanswered points in the second quarter to take a 27-21 at halftime. Lynch was 7-of-9 passing for 155 yards and a touchdown in the first half, and he also carried it six times for 48 yards and two scores.Davidson scored the first 10 points of the second half to take a 31-27 lead on Adam Zouagui’s 35-yard field goal. After both teams punted, Barton went on a 12-play, 83-yard drive, capped by Jordan Terrell’s 13-yard touchdown run with 5:57 left.Davidson had the ball at its 39 with 2:59 remaining in the fou...

COVID cases surge in Colorado as summer comes to an end

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado health officials say the latest rise in COVID-19 cases was expected, but numbers might be higher than they thought across the state.More than 2,000 cases were reported in Colorado this week, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The number is up by almost 200 from the week prior. Trump lawyers move ‘insurrection’ clause lawsuit to federal court Hospitalizations are also up with the positivity rate. But there's no need for panic, according to doctors, although it is a better time than ever to know how to prevent more spread."It's not totally unexpected. I think it's probably a little bit worse than we were hoping," said Dr. Carrie Horn, chief medical officer at National Jewish Health.The number of new COVID cases in Colorado has spiked slightly higher than expected, in part, because of the new variant."The variants that are going around now are pretty infectious," Horn said. "It's pretty easy to get it still."That's not to b...

Troopers will be looking for drunk drivers this weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — With two high-profile sporting events in the Denver metro area this weekend, law enforcement is on high alert for drinking and driving.“It’s just basically like having St. Patrick’s Day/New Year’s Eve, because we have two big games,” Colorado State Patrol Master Trooper Gary Cutler said. Colorado icon ranked as one of the most overrated attractions in the world Cutler said they will have added enforcement near U.S. 36 for the Colorado Buffaloes football game and on Interstate 25 for Sunday’s Denver Broncos game at Empower Field at Mile High."We will definitely have additional troopers out in those areas, looking for anybody that decided to drink and drive," Cutler said.Cutler said a relatively new DUI enforcement team has paid dividends in keeping drunk drivers off the road.The Colorado Buffaloes football game versus Nebraska starts at 10 a.m. Saturday. The Denver Broncos and the Las Vegas Raiders clash on Sunday at 2:25 p.m.“We’re gonna be out there," Cutler said....

Editorial: The downside of Biden’s drug price control scheme

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

Economic fallacies are like horror movie villains. They just won’t stay dead.Late last month, the Biden administration announced it had selected 10 drugs for Medicare price “negotiation.” The list included drugs for diabetes, heart failure and blood cancer, among others. The White House said these are some of the most costly to the Medicare Program. In future years, Medicare will negotiate the prices on dozens of other drugs. The administration claims this will save money for both Medicare recipients and taxpayersThis sounds innocuous, even necessary. Of course, the federal government should use its purchasing power to obtain lower prices. But that’s not what’s happening here.Consider Bristol Myers Squibb. Its blood thinner, Eliquis, is one of the 10 drugs on Biden’s list. In a real negotiation, the company and Medicare would meet together. If they couldn’t come to a mutually beneficial agreement, both would go on their separate ways. But that’s not what will happen under the Inflat...

Lowry: Electric cars should be choice, not mandate

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

Joe Biden has seen the future, and it is electric cars. Lots of electric cars. Electric cars — or else.The European Union wants to ban gas-powered cars in 2035. California, New Jersey and Massachusetts are doing the same.The goals here would make Soviet central planners blush. Last year, electric vehicle accounted for about 7% of U.S. sales, but according to the panjandrums at the Environmental Protection Agency, they’ll have to be nearly 40% by 2027. A couple of years after that, they’re supposed to be higher than 60%.And why not? All that’s missing is the charging capacity and supply and processing of the minerals necessary to build the 1,000-pound batteries, not to mention the consumer demand.For Biden and his allies, though, what kind of automobiles we drive is not a practical question but almost a theological one.Insofar a rush to electric cars throws us into the arms of Chinese manufacturers and suppliers, it should rightfully be thought of as an anti-i...

‘Madama Butterfly’ gets a do-over

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

Phil Chan believes “Madama Butterfly” should be celebrated as a masterpiece.Chan also believes the 120-year-old Puccini opera should be reclaimed and reinvented by Asian and Asian-American artists.Best known for his work in ballet and as a co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, an organization  committed to eliminating offensive stereotypes of Asians on stage, Chan makes his opera directing debut with the Boston Lyric Opera’s “Madama Butterfly.” The production, which runs Sept. 14-24 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, is the culmination of a massive exploration of the legacy of “Madama Butterfly” undertaken by Chan, the BLO team and a dozen others.“We can say that ‘Madama Butterfly’ is inherently racist and sexist, but we could also ask, ‘How can we save it? What else can this work be?’” Chan told the Herald. “Three years ago, scholars, performers, directors, historians, and folks from all across the opera ecosystem took a look at this work asking what are problems with it and what i...

Varvaloucas: Gen Z dropping college dream, America should catch up

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:37 GMT

For years, we have lamented the spike in college costs and accompanying student debt bloat while we teach high schoolers to covet admittance to a tiny sliver of prestigious universities — ones that refuse to enlarge incoming class sizes despite endowments the size of some small countries’ gross domestic product.President Joe Biden’s first plan to relieve student debt is dead in the water, and the second is off to a slow start. Meanwhile, Americans’ confidence in higher education is eroding, and college graduates are surprised to find themselves still in the working class.Colleges are finally lying in the beds they made for themselves. According to data from the National Student Clearinghouse, undergraduate enrollment dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022 and doesn’t show signs of recovering post-pandemic. “The slide in the college-going rate since 2018 is the steepest on record,” The Associated Press reported this spring, going on to paint those numbers as a crisis for Gen Z.But is it really...