Daylight saving time ends Sunday. Here’s how to adjust to the change and stay healthy
The Chronicle's CATHERINE HO: "Sunday marks the end of daylight saving time, the start of earlier sunsets and — for some — the time of year that seasonal affective disorder begins to feel more acute.
“Falling back” and gaining an hour each November tends to be an easier transition for most people than “springing ahead” and losing an hour of sleep each March."
Undecided on California propositions? Here’s what the major editorial boards recommend
CALMatters's JENNA PETERSON: "Endorsements have made national headlines lately, with both the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post announcing in the final weeks of the campaign that they won’t be backing a presidential candidate.
But presidential endorsements are only part of an editorial board’s role during election season. They’re also busy crafting recommendations for state and local candidates, plus ballot propositions."
Dodgers beat Yankees to win another World Series, cement ‘golden era’ of franchise dominance
JACK HARRIS, LATimes: " It had felt so close, yet remained so difficult to cement. For more than a decade, the Dodgers had aimed for more than just regular-season success. More than just repeated trips to the postseason. More than just a lone, COVID-bubble championship in a pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
This, as president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman had declared time and again, was supposed to be a “golden era of Dodgers baseball,” a generation of organizational excellence unmatched in the storied, but often tortured, history of the century-old franchise."
CA 120: Understanding the polls
Capitol Weekly's PAUL MITCHELL: "Going into the final weekend of the 2024 General Election, the presidential contest appears to be in a dead heat. The changing of the Democratic nominee, two conventions, two assassination attempts, one debate, countless speeches and town halls and podcasts, people eating cats and dogs and islands of trash in the ocean, and, frustratingly, nothing has pushed the contest out of the “toss-up” range.
The margins may be narrow, but there is a widening set of tools to describe them – from polls to forecasts to prediction markets and early vote projections."
‘I hear panic’: Bay Area Democrats brace for prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency
The Chronicle's KEVIN FAGAN, RACHEL SWAN: "Stocking up on guns and emergency food. Making plans to flee the country. Flooded with fear of concentration camps for immigrants, jailing of political leaders and demolition of abortion and LGBTQ rights.
With days to go before a fraught presidential election, Democrats in a Bay Area that launched Kamala Harris’ political career are bracing for what many once said was unthinkable: a second Donald Trump presidency, and the tumult they believe it could bring."
Too many Democrats in Sacramento? The downsides of political dominance in California
TARYN LUNA, LA Times: "Twelve years ago Democrats won a surprising two-thirds supermajority in the state Legislature, giving themselves the strength to pass any bill without the need for a single Republican vote in California.
Yet, even as they celebrated the first feat of its kind in nearly 80 years, leaders were mindful of their new power."
Busloads of Californians are heading to swing states. Can they make a difference?
CALMatters's ANA B. IBARRA: "WIth days left in a neck-and-neck presidential election, many anxious California Democrats are getting on buses to neighboring swing states where they hope they can make a difference with undecided voters.
They know their solidly blue state is practically in the bag for Vice President Kamala Harris, but polls show the race tied within the margin of error in Arizona and Nevada."
Bird flu jumped from cows to people. Now advocates want more farmworkers tested
CALMatters's KRISTEN HWANG: "In the heart of California’s dairy country, workers kitted in respirators, face shields and gloves are grappling with one of the largest bird flu outbreaks in history. California has reported 16 human cases of bird flu this month, and worker advocates say the state isn’t doing enough to protect dairy workers.
Only 39 people have been tested for H5N1, the strain of bird flu ravaging herds of cattle, according to the California Department of Public Health. California’s confirmed cases of sick workers account for almost all of the country’s cattle-to-human transmissions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Election battles over schools boards intensify as teachers, conservatives vie for influence
The Chronicle's DIANA LAMBERT: "California school board races, largely ignored by voters until the 2022 election, are again taking center stage. The California Teachers Association (CTA), the California Republican Party and other organizations have significantly ramped up efforts to help their favored candidates win local school board seats on Nov. 5.
On Saturday, teachers and other school employees dropped into the offices of the Elk Grove Education Association to receive last-minute instructions and pick up yard signs and union T-shirts before fanning out across the Sacramento County district to encourage residents to vote for a local school bond and union-supported school board candidates."
California foundations launch initiative to boost youth civic engagement
EdSource's LOUIS FREEDBERG: "As Californians gear up for elections that have the potential to shape the lives of young people in fundamental ways, a consortium of mostly California foundations have set up a fund to elevate the role of public schools in promoting civic leadership and democratic participation.
It is a key part of what the nearly dozen foundations who are participating in the project are calling the California Thriving Youth Initiative, a multiyear effort “to support the learning, leadership, and well-being of adolescents in California.”"
San Francisco just opened two new parks: Here are 12 ways to explore them
The Chronicle's PETER HARTLAUB: "It was a joyous 72 hours for San Francisco parks fans.
The rave reviews started on Oct. 20, when the city’s Recreation and Parks Department opened the $68 million 900 Innes Park in Hunters Point, the first quarter of the 10-acre India Basin Waterfront Park project. The bounty continued two days later, as the Port of San Francisco pulled the construction fences away from Bayfront Park, a 5.5-acre shoreline promenade squeezed between the San Francisco Bay and Chase Center."
It’s hard to vote in California when you’re homeless. Why it matters when their voices are silenced
CALMatters's MARISA KENDALL, YUE STELLA YU: "Ciara Lambright has a lot to worry about: Staying safe while living on the streets of San Francisco, trying to prevent people from stealing her belongings, and packing up her small cardboard bed before it gets swept away by police.
The thought of voting this election is just too overwhelming."
S.F. has spent millions on a parking site for the homeless. It’s finally got reliable electricity
The Chronicle's MAGGIE ANGST, ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH :"San Francisco’s only city-run parking site for homeless people living in vehicles has struggled with a litany of problems since opening nearly three years ago. It has sparked a lawsuit from neighboring residents and broad criticisms from those living at the site.
It’s serving far fewer people than anticipated, has moved only a handful into permanent housing and at about $278 per parking space per night, it’s costing San Francisco taxpayers more than a weeknight stay at the Fairmont Hotel."
