Headlines, August 25
By
Roger Rudick
8:22 AM PDT on August 25, 2026
- Near Disaster as Another Muni Operator Falls Asleep (SFChron, ABC7)
- BART Gets $$ for Ashby Plaza Design (Berkeleyside)
- Oscar Grant’s Uncle Appointed to Police Oversight Board (EastBayTimes)
- More Problems for Woodstock Ferry (SFGate)
- Vestige of East Bay’s Electric Railway Burns Down (Oaklandside)
- Fossil Fuel Use Blamed for Water Shortages (SFChron)
- Fossil Fuel Use Heating the Ocean (SFChron)
- More About Crashes on Van Ness (Hoodline)
- Driver Kills Pedestrian in San Jose (EastBayTimes)
- But I Saw a Cyclist on the Sidewalk Once (EastBayTimes)
- As Older Californians Stay Put, Housing Supply Tightens (MarinIJ)
- More on S.F.’s High Tech Public Toilet (SFChron)
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