Latest line: A good week for Buffy Wicks, a bad week for Jesse Arreguín

Buffy Wicks

Oakland assemblywoman wins rare early endorsement from Gov. Gavin Newsom for AB 609, her landmark bill to exempt most infill housing construction from the California Environmental Quality Act.

 

 

 

Jesse Arreguín

Berkeley state senator leads the push for $2 billion to bail out BART and other transit services whose ridership lags far below pre-COVID numbers. But Newsom in his revised May budget provides nothing.

 

 

 

Google

Internet giant agrees to pay $50 million to 4,000 current and former employees to settle a lawsuit claiming it paid black workers less than whites. But Google’s parent company made $100 billion profit last year.

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