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Leaving California: Where do ‘best state’ rankings tell you to move?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

Departing Californians take a lot of pride in their new home state.I know this because my “Leaving California” columns – designed to help folks choose which state might be best for a relocation – draw spirited comments from readers on how their relocation selection was slighted by my rankings.Yes, the trusty spreadsheet isn’t free of bias in various forms. But there are 49 other states. Some will grade higher than others. That’s the scorecard business.But to get past my personal blind spots, this edition of “Leaving California” scores relocation options for Californians on a simple scale – the average ranking derived from nine other “best state” scorecards. These gradings are based on a host of economic and demographic factors, each with its own wisdom – or not – backing the math.If we assume that such “best state” scorecards are valuable tools for home hunting, the average ranking says New Hampshire is your top spot. Then comes Vermont, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Minnesota. By t...

San Jose State football: Jenkins twins two of a kind in Spartans defense

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

SAN JOSE — Growing up, twins Tre and Andrew Jenkins did everything together. From homework to playing sports, the two were inseparable.This fall, as seniors, they are teaming up in the San Jose State secondary to try and help the Spartans capture their second conference title in four seasons and play in consecutive bowl games for the first time since 1987.“We want to win the Mountain West championship,” Andrew said. “That’s been the goal since day one.”The Jenkins brothers were sophomores on the 2020 squad that had an undefeated regular season and won SJSU’s first Mountain West championship.Tre was a starting safety on that squad, earning second-team All-Mountain West honors, and has been an honorable mention pick after each of the past two seasons. Andrew has been a key contributor primarily on special teams but is vying for a starting role at safety opposite his brother this season.Twin brothers Andrew Jenkins (#27) and Tre Jenkins (#22), practice with the San Jose State football ...

ADA-compliant dock installed at Vasona Lake in Los Gatos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

Vasona Lake County Park in Los Gatos got a new ADA-compliant boat ramp installed this summer, ensuring that residents of all abilities can enjoy the lake.Florida-based AccuDock installed the dock, which consists of a kayak loading zone and a marina boat loading zone. The docks are wider to make it easier to navigate with a wheelchair and have edge guards that serve as bumpers to prevent anything from rolling over the edge of the dock.The ADA-compliant dock is the first of its kind at Vasona, and Tamara Clark of the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department said it’s part of the county’s efforts to expand ADA accessibility across its water parks.“It’s just a really fabulous thing to have happen to see the expansion of recreation to other communities,” Clark said. “It’s been fabulous; one of the best things I’ve ever seen in my career here at parks is the expansion of boating to an entirely new community.”Santa Clara County hosted a ribbon-cuttin...

Broadmoor Police Department faces potential dissolution

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

BROADMOOR – The future of the state’s last active police protection district is in jeopardy.On Thursday, the Broadmoor Property Owners Association is slated to discuss the “potential dissolution” of the scandal-plagued Broadmoor Police Department and a “possible takeover” by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, according to the association’s website.Broadmoor police Chief Michael Connolly and a sheriff’s office spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.Association President Christine Taliva’a Aguerre said the association had no comment at this time.When asked by news website Mission Local if the department was dissolving, Connolly said “not necessarily,” but he also said the agency is in talks with the county and the sheriff’s office.Formed in 1948, the Broadmoor Police Protection District provides police services to a roughly half-square-mile area that includes Broadmoor Village and unincorporated pockets of Colma and Daly City. It is overseen by a three-member comm...

Map: Lightning fires prompt evacuation order west of Yreka

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

Lightning strikes sparked at least 19 wildfires in the Klamath National Forest, prompting an evacuation order for 325 square miles west of Yreka.A report Tuesday night from the forest service’s fire managers described the situation as “extremely dynamic.”The largest fire, Head, is near the confluence of the Klamath and Scott rivers, and was estimated Tuesday evening at 3,000 to 4,000 acres (5 to 6 square miles). It is just west of the scar of last summer’s McKinney Fire, which burned 60,000 acres and killed four people.In addition to the mandatory evacuation, the Siskiyou County sheriff’s office has announced evacuation warning zones, and there are closures on Highway 96 and Scott River Road.The map above shows the mandatory evacuation area in red. The Head Fire is indicated by the large fire icon. The red dots to the west are the Elliott, Malone and Titus fires, which were described as 5 to 50 acres and active on Tuesday evening. Orange dots indicate s...

San Francisco’s 166-year-old luxury retailer Gumps warns: This could be our last year

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

By Samantha Delouya and Alexandra Coenjaerts | CNNLos Angeles – John Chachas, the owner of luxury department store Gump’s San Francisco, wrote an open letter to Governor Newsom, Mayor London Breed, and the city’s Board of Supervisors, pleading for them to act on what he describes as the city’s worsening downtown conditions.“Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last,” Chachas wrote in an open letter, published as a paid ad in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.Gump’s, which sells luxury furnishings and jewelry, was acquired by Chachas after the retailer filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018. The high-end retailer, founded in San Francisco in 1861 and born out of the famed California gold rush, has only one physical location, which is one block from the city’s Union Square.“The ramifications of Covid policies advising people to abandon their offices are only beginning to be understood. Equally devastating have...

Search underway for 5 suspected carjackers in Alameda County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

(BCN) -- Law enforcers are searching for five armed suspects involved in carjacking incidents in Castro Valley, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday night. The sheriff's office said on social media that shortly before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, the suspects attempted to carjack a woman at a gasoline station along Lake Chabot Road in Castro Valley, but she was able to escape to safety with her vehicle. Moments after, the suspects were able to carjack a woman driving a black 2016 Nissan Sentra in the 2700 block of Sydney Way in Castro Valley. According to the sheriff's office, they forced her out of her car at gunpoint while she was attempting to leave a driveway. Expanding basic income program for formerly incarcerated moves forward with vote The armed suspects fled in the victim's car bearing the license plate CA:8MMT942 towards Stanton Avenue, according to the sheriff's office. In both incidents, the suspects were driving a 2014 silver Hyundai Elantra bearing t...

Francesco Molinari joins brother as vice captain for Europe in the Ryder Cup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Francesco and Edoardo Molinari are on a Ryder Cup team again, this time as vice captains before a home crowd at Marco Simone in Rome.Francesco Molinari was chosen as the fifth and final vice captain for Luke Donald when Europe tries to win back the cup against the Americans on Sept. 29-Oct. 1.The Italian brothers played together in the Celtic Manor matches in 2010, which Europe won. Edoardo Molinari was among Donald’s first choices as an assistant, as his brother, the 2018 British Open champion, had aspirations of making the team.Francesco Molinari’s selection was announced Wednesday. Donald’s other assistants are Jose Maria Olazabal, Nicolas Colsaerts and Thomas Bjorn.U.S. captain Zach Johnson has selected Davis Love III, Fred Couples, Steve Stricker, Jim Furyk and Stewart Cink.___AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golfSource

McLean company opens drone experimentation range in Virginia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

MITRE cut the ribbon on a new testing range for drones in Virginia. (Courtesy Mitre)Research and development nonprofit MITRE, with dual headquarters in McLean, Virginia and Bedford, Massachusetts, cut the ribbon this week on a new drone testing range near Orange, Virginia.The facility will be used to experiment with small, uncrewed aircraft systems and serve as a proving ground to develop, test and evaluate new drone, counter-drone and autonomous systems.Among officials at the opening on Monday was Jeffrey Vincent, executive director of the Federal Aviation Administration’s UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) Integration office.“The drone range will provide tremendous opportunity for valuable collaboration amongst government, industry and academic researchers benefitting the drone community at large,” Vincent said in opening comments.MITRE has been a pioneer in drone technologies for over two decades. It has partnered with police, firefighters and security and public s...

Javier Milei y la particular relación con sus perros

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:45:10 GMT

(CNN Español) — Luego de ser el más votado en las elecciones primarias, abiertas, simultáneas y obligatorias (PASO) del domingo, en Argentina, el candidato Javier Milei festejó en un prestigioso hotel de Buenos Aires y dedicó su triunfo, entre otros, a sus cinco perros. “Y se imaginarán a quienes también… a mis hijitos de cuatro patas: a Conan, a Murray, a Milton, a Robert y a Lucas”, dijo.El líder del partido La Libertad Avanza vive con cinco mastines ingleses, que pesan entre 80 y 100 kilogramos cada uno. Milei reconoce en cada uno de estos canes a su verdadera familia, según contó durante una entrevista en el programa televisivo Infama recargado, del canal América TV. El primero en llegar a su vida fue Conan, un ejemplar que conoció en la provincia argentina de Córdoba y que debe su nombre a la serie literaria de Robert E. Howard, “Conan, el bárbaro”.Javier Milei: Somos los únicos que queremos un verdadero cambio 2:43Según Milei, Conan tiene un carácter muy particular...