Fox News’ Sean Hannity on his unlikely relationship with Gavin Newsom: ‘We just hit it off’
LA Times, STEPHEN BATTAGLIO: "Sean Hannity and Gavin Newsom are an unlikely cable news bromance.
The conservative Fox News host and the Democratic California governor are ideologically polar opposites. But their recent joint appearances — an hourlong sitdown in June and a lengthy interview after the second Republican presidential candidates’ debate on Sept. 27 at the Ronald Reagan Library — offered a robust but cordial discussion of issues, a rarity these days in a media landscape where politicians and advocates are more comfortable preaching to their own tribes."
Hamas frees hostages including U.S. girl, 4, whose parents were killed in Oct. 7 attack
AP, WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY: "The fragile, temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third set of releases under a four-day truce that the U.S. said it hoped would be extended.
In turn, Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners."
Here’s how cold it will get in these Bay Area cities as freezing nights continue
The Chronicle, ANTHONY EDWARDS: "Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Napa and Fairfield dropped below 32 degrees Sunday morning, marking the first freeze in many parts of the North Bay since February.
Lows in the 20s and 30s are forecast to continue in the North Bay on Sunday night into Monday morning, prompting the National Weather Service to extend freeze warnings and frost advisories for another night. Frost advisories are issued during the fall until the end of the growing season when the temperatures are forecast to be 33 to 36 degrees. Freeze warnings are issued for temperatures 32 degrees or lower."
California faces big challenges to implement new math guidelines
EdSource, MONICA VELEZ: "After a contentious road to approve a new set of statewide guidelines on teaching students math, California officials must still figure out how to support school districts with implementation.
The 2023 math framework, which the State Board of Education passed in July, is a 1,000-page document that details what many state and education officials accept as the best practices to teach mathematics. Although not everyone agreed and controversies arose during the four years of work it took to reach approval, math experts and organizations across the state are beginning to have conversations about what a statewide rollout could look like."
Cal Poly Humboldt students live in vehicles to afford college. They were ordered off campus
LA Times, DEBBIE TRUONG: "Maddy Montiel and Brad Butterfield marveled at the community they found this semester at Cal Poly Humboldt.
Montiel, an environmental science major, and Butterfield, a journalism major, had lived in their vehicles for several years, the only way, they said, that they could afford to attend college. They usually found parking in campus lots or on nearby streets."
A Jewish professor at USC confronted pro-Palestinian students. He’s now barred from campus
LA Times, MATT HAMILTON: "Until recently, USC professor John Strauss was known mostly for his research on the economics of developing countries, with decades of fieldwork in Indonesia and China.
That changed Nov. 9, when Strauss stopped before students staging a walkout and protest calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and holding a memorial to thousands of Palestinian civilians killed in the Israel-Hamas war."
S.F. private schools are expanding. Here’s how at least nine campuses are changing
The Chronicle, MICHAEL CABANATUAN: "A private school construction boom is under way in San Francisco, with at least nine schools planning, undergoing or recently completing expansions.
While some of the projects are intended to increase the number of students enrolled in the schools, others are renovations or modernizations and some involve the addition of facilities like gymnasiums or auditoriums that could make the schools more attractive to prospective students and their parents."
Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say
AP: "Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
The complaint, originally made public in redacted form, was the opening salvo in a lawsuit filed in late October by the attorneys general of 33 states."
The Chronicle, NAMI SUMIDA: "Marin County has an unusually old and aging population. With an average age of 46.8, the county’s population is the oldest in the nine-county Bay Area, and it’s expected to grow even older in the coming years.
Over a third of Marin residents (38%) are now 60 or older, but by 2041, that share is expected to rise to 42%, according to projections by the California Department of Finance. The average age of county residents is projected to be at its highest in 2041, at 50.3 years. The median age is set to peak even sooner, in 2026, at 53."
In the Bay Area, 1 in 4 millennials (and 3 in 4 Gen Zers) still live at home
BANG*Mercury News, ETHAN VARIAN: "After Kelly Zhao earned a master’s degree in ethnic studies from UCLA last year, she followed the lead of so many other young graduates thrust into a competitive job market: She moved back in with her parents while she looked for work.
Upon returning to her childhood home in Pittsburg, Zhao, 25, soon found a job with a local advocacy group, making around $70,000 a year. But even then, she said, renting an apartment just doesn’t make financial sense right now, especially while contributing around $1,500 a month toward her parents’ mortgage."
BART, Muni to receive bulk of Bay Area transit’s $776 million bailout, if they address fare evasion
The Chronicle, RICARDO CANO: "BART and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will receive the overwhelming majority of $776 million in state and regional subsidies for Bay Area transit — if they take certain steps to address ongoing fare evasion on their trains and buses.
The funds, which will be distributed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission through fiscal year 2026, partially come from the Bay Area’s share of the $1.1 billion transit bailout included in the California budget. The subsidies include about $300 million in regional transportation funds."