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San Jose
San Jose became the largest city in the country on Tuesday to utilize the online social media network for individual neighborhoods, Nextdoor.

Based in San Francisco, Nextdoor provides an exclusive, closed, and verified social media network platform for neighbors and city governments to communicate with each other.

Nextdoor launched across the country last October and has grown to over 4000 neighborhood sites nationwide, with 160 in San Jose alone.

Bay Area
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Monday awarded $40 million in competitive grants to several Bay Area transit agencies for public transit improvements such as new hybrid buses, fare collection systems and real-time departures.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority received $3.8 million, San Mateo County Transit received almost $5 million, San Francisco Muni received $21.4 million, Alameda County Transit received $7.5 million and BART received $3.2 million.

California
The President of the California Fish and Game Commission, Dan Richards, was removed from office Wednesday, months after receiving criticism for killing a Mountain Lion while in Idaho.

“Californians have twice voted in a resounding fashion to protect mountain lions in our state, and his flagrant flaunting of his disagreement with the electorate put him out of sync with California,” said state director of the Humane Society, Jennifer Fearing. “We’re glad to see the commission take action.”

California
Young African-American men without a high school diploma are 27 to 36 percent more likely to be serving time in a prison than at work, according to a report by the Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color for the California state legislator.

The report also found young Latino men to be 40 percent more likely to serve jail time than white men, and African-American kindergartners are over three times as likely to believe they cannot succeed in school.

California
California Senator Leland Yee is pushing for reform on California’s assault weapons law in response to high profile shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin.  Yee is seeking the support of California democrats to ban weapons with magazine ammunition, which allows guns to be reloaded quickly.

California currently allows possession of automatic weapons, only if a tool is used to separate their magazine, ultimately slowing the reloading process. Opponents are saying that, Yee’s SB 249 is anti-constitutional.

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