In a statement Sunday afternoon Southwest said the cancellations began Friday as a result of weather challenges in Florida airports that “were compounded by unexpected air traffic control issues in the same region, triggering delays and prompting significant cancellations for us beginning Friday evening.”
Bay Area airports feel impact of Southwest flight cancellations
KELLIE HWANG, Chronicle: "Widespread cancellations and delays of Southwest Airlines flights, still not fully explained, continued to plague the carrier Sunday, with the impact felt at all the Bay Area’s major airports.
As of Sunday night, the airline had canceled more than 1,900 flights nationwide over the weekend, affecting almost a third of its schedule, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
Southwest tweeted that “disruptive” weather and air traffic control issues were to blame, but no other airlines were logging major problems with their flight schedules, and it was not clear why those factors would affect only Southwest."
Here are 6 impactful new California laws Gavin Newsom signed over the weekend
DUSTIN GARDINER: "From banning gas-powered leaf blowers to requiring gender-neutral children’s sections in large stores, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off on a host of new California laws over the weekend.
Newsom had until Sunday night to decide the fate of dozens of bills as the deadline approached for him to sign or veto new legislation for the year. But the governor finished his work by Saturday evening.
The signed measures take effect Jan. 1, unless noted otherwise. Here are six of the most impactful and interesting laws the governor approved in recent days."
Citizens review board leader wants to change the way it investigates deaths in custody
JEFF McDONALD, Union-Tribune: "The board that provides civilian oversight of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the Probation Department wants to expand its authority and change the way it investigates deaths in custody.
Paul Parker, executive officer of the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board, is proposing several reforms that will rewrite the way the appointed board monitors county law enforcement.
The 11-member board has professional investigators who look into in-custody deaths, uses of force that result in great bodily injury and public complaints of misconduct involving sheriff’s deputies or probation officers."
Academics at UC Berkeley, Stanford and MIT win Nobel Prize in economics
LATimes, AP: "Three U.S-based economists won the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for pioneering research on the labor market effects of minimum wage, immigration and education, and for creating the scientific framework to allow conclusions to be drawn from such studies that can’t use traditional methodology.
Canadian-born David Card, who teaches at UC Berkeley, was awarded one half of the prize, while the other half was shared by Joshua D. Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dutch-born Guido W. Imbens, who teaches at Stanford University.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three have “completely reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences.”
San Francisco poised for lower speed limits after Newsom signs legislation
RICARDO CANO, SF Chronicle: "Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that gives local cities greater freedom to reduce their speed limits, and the new law is primed to be put to use in San Francisco as the city struggles to meet its goal to end traffic fatalities by 2024.
It’s not yet clear at what scale the city will exercise its newfound power to set speed limits under Assembly Bill 43, by Assembly Member Laura Friedman, D-Burbank, but officials and advocates described the legislation as a necessary reform in the battle to curb pedestrian fatalities.
“This opens up some new possibilities for saving lives here in San Francisco and other cities,” Marta Lindsey, spokesperson for the Walk San Francisco advocacy group, said in an email."
Woodland gang officers seize teenager’s trove of illegal guns and ammunition
VINCENT MOLESKI, SacBee: "The Woodland Police Department’s gang task force recently seized a teenager’s trove of illegally possessed guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
In a news release, the Police Department said that officers were sent to a home on the 700 block of East Street after a couple said their 19-year-old son was suffering from mental health issues and was threatening to harm himself.
They also said he was seen putting a stash of guns into their trash bin, according to the police department."
