Today's News Roundup

The Benicia-MArtinez Bridge with a train in the foreground. — Credit

John Huseby

San Francisco Examiner

Why SF tourism, transit advocates love upcoming Clipper Card shift
San Francisco Standard

Here’s When You Can Tap Your Credit Card on BART and Muni
Bloomberg

Rising Insurance Rates Are Crushing Affordable Housing Developers
Bloomberg

Lyft to Pair Women Riders to Women Drivers in Safety Feature
KQED

BART's Big Schedule Changes: Which Lines Now Have More (or Less) Service?
San Francisco Standard

What Happens to Retired BART Trains?
KRON

Main Street Alameda Ferry Terminal closure begins next month
Mercury News

From the Roadshow archives: Highway 85 tragedy that spurred safety changes across California
Napa Valley Register

St. Helena highway work underway
Berkeleyside

Berkeley landlords are planning a party to celebrate end of eviction moratorium
NBC Bay Area

Bay Area home prices tumble, numbers show
San Francisco Chronicle

Housing bill that targets San Francisco for extra scrutiny sent to Gavin Newsom
San Francisco Chronicle

California lawmakers pass ‘YIGBY’ bill to let churches build affordable housing
San Francisco Chronicle

ADUs could be sold separately from homes under bill passed by California Legislature
San Francisco Chronicle

New S.F. condo building opening in rare area seemingly untouched by pandemic decline
Press Democrat

Housing, grocery store among proposals in play as Santa Rosa council seeks to transform 2 downtown parking sites
Sonoma Index-Tribune

City of Sonoma approves environmental consultant for Schocken Hill homes
Marin Independent Journal

Fairfax amends tenant protection regulations
San Francisco Chronicle

Dreamforce returns to S.F. at a critical moment with AI extravaganza
Cal Matters

A $25 minimum wage is in sight for California health care workers under new legislative deal
Mercury News

Fast-food companies pull California referendum, agree to $20 minimum wage
Bay Nature

How Do I Get My Hands on These ‘Wild Billions,’ Anyway?