SMC | California Regulators Deny AT&T’s Bid to Drop Landline Telephone Service: Local Officials Say Battle Not Yet Won

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Redwood City – San Mateo County officials celebrated today’s California Public Utilities Commission decision that allows residents to keep their land-line phones, a critical communications tool in emergencies. “This is a victory,” San Mateo County Supervisor Ray...

Cal Chamber | US Supreme Court Ruling Allows Cities to Restrict Public Camping

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Information provided by Cal Chamber: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court’s decision which held that enforcing criminal restrictions on public camping violates the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment unless the target of...

CA | CPUC Proposes Rejecting AT&T’s Request to Withdraw as Carrier of Last Resort; Initiates New Rulemaking Process

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After hearing from consumers across the state and reviewing the evidence in the record, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today issued a proposal rejecting AT&T’s request to withdraw as a carrier of last resort (COLR) and indicating that the CPUC...

USA | Biden-Harris Administration Announces $5.5 Billion in Grants for Affordable Housing, Community Development, and Homeless Assistance to Drive Economic Growth

Coastside, News & Updates

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced $5.5 billion in funding that will go to 1,200 communities through more than 2,400 grants to States, urban counties, insular areas, DC, Puerto Rico, and...

Coastside Chamber Honored to Accept Proclamation from Board Supervisor Ray Mueller on Behalf of the Coastside Business Community

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On May 7th Supervisor Ray Mueller sponsored a proclamation to designate May as Small Business Awareness Month. Krystlyn, the Coastside Chamber CEO, was honored to be invited to accept the proclamation on behalf of the Coastside business community alongside the Chamber...

HMB Review | Cal Fire to run voluntary evacuation in El Granada on May 11

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Personnel from Cal Fire’s San Mateo-Santa Cruz unit and other first responders will be in charge of a voluntary evacuation drill in part of El Granada next month. The drill goes from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and involves only a section of El Granada known as Zone SMC-E092....