Labor
Which California bills will beat the deadline?
CalMatters 6/1
The end-of-week deadline to pass bills in their house of origin is only one day away, so legislators have been busy advancing a litany of measures.
Yes, you can be employed and homeless
Marketplace 6/1
What happens when you’re working but still can’t afford a place to live?
Food Industry Policy
How a Santa Barbara County community is cracking down on single use plastics
KCLU 6/1
It’s estimated there are over 5 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean and the City of Goleta is cracking down on single-use plastics.
Fort Bragg City Council to consider keeping easy outdoor dining rules
The Mendocino Voice 6/1
FORT BRAGG, 5/31/23 — The Fort Bragg City Council will be asked to keep outdoor dining easier, while the rest of the county is headed back to pre-pandemic rules for tents.
On the Side
25 restaurants opened around Sacramento in May. Where to get tacos, tequila and Spanish wine
The Sacramento Bee 6/1
May brought some of the Sacramento region’s most interesting restaurant openings in recent memory, including a 17,000-acre farm taphouse, a Latin American refuge and a boundary-pushing midtown Korean spot.
Hometown High School Sweethearts Bring Cajun Cooking to Benicia
Comstock Magazine 5/26
The story of The Workshop, the popular 600-square foot Cajun-Creole walk-up restaurant in Benicia, starts with a teen romance between Danny Glassmaker and Naomi Buskirk more than 30 years ago.
