Today's News Roundup

Mercury News

Don’t hold your breath … toll lanes unlikely in Bay Area tunnels: Roadshow
Mercury News

A Silicon Valley lawyer kept this vanity license plate for 50 years. Now he wants to sell it for $2 million.
San Francisco Examiner

Why outspoken SF supe says he won't miss 'consistently irresponsible' Bird
SF Gate

Bay Area housing market slowest it's been in more than a decade
Mercury News

State gives $42.8 million to three San Mateo County affordable housing projects
SF Gate

How Red Rock Island became the only privately owned island in San Francisco Bay
Mercury News

Google nears end of first demolitions for downtown San Jose village
San Mateo Daily Journal

Foster City Planning Commission wants more housing
East Bay Times

Hundreds more tech, life science layoffs jolt East Bay, San Francisco
East Bay Times

Hundreds more tech, life science layoffs jolt East Bay, San Francisco
Mercury News

Discount retailer Tuesday Morning files for bankruptcy, will close San Jose and 30 other California stores
San Francisco Chronicle

California is bracing for back-to-back winter storms. These are the biggest impacts