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I'm looking at potentially switching from Comcast to Frontier Fiber in the South Bay. Advertised service is 1gbps symmetrical.

I'm a little wary of Frontier as a provider. Can anyone recommend or share your experience of their fiber service?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3051399

I'm so friggin excited to have this store so much closer than Daly City, and on my route to Costco!

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CCAS DIRECTOR BETH WARD

We come to you with a heavy heart and a plea for help that we believe only a caring community like ours can answer. Our shelter is facing a critical situation – we are at full capacity, with more animals coming in each day, and space is running out faster than we can create it.

Today, our animal care and medical staff have advised me that due to the high volume of dogs currently in our care and the number of new animals coming in each day outpacing those being adopted, rescued and returned to their families, we’re now faced with the impossible dilemma of having to make euthanasia decisions based on time and space. Sadly, this means that there is a potential that healthy/treatable animals may be euthanized to help make space for the other animals in our community needing help.

We have been messaging over the last year that our shelter is experiencing overcrowding due to our adoption rate not being able to keep up with the incredible flow of animals needing help coming into our shelter. We also know that the animal rescues in our region are experiencing similar challenges – they’re filled to the brim and their resources are being stretched. For months, we've navigated through the challenges of overcrowding, strained resources, and tirelessly dedicated staff who have given their all to care for these innocent lives. But today, we stand at a crossroads, faced with an unimaginable decision: unless we act quickly, we might have to make the heartbreaking choice to euthanize some of the dogs and cats in our care.

Our hearts ache at the mere thought of having to make such decisions. We firmly believe that each of these pets deserves the chance to find a loving home, to experience warmth, comfort, and the joy of companionship. We know you believe that too.

To that end, we need your help to get 50 large breed dogs out of the shelter through adoption, foster, and transfer immediately.

This is our heartfelt call to action. We're urging our community to step up and make a difference. We're asking you to open your hearts and your homes to the pets in our shelter. Adoption, fostering, volunteering – every gesture counts. If you've been thinking about adopting, or possibly fostering - permanently or temporarily - now is the time.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

You can access all of these services at www.ccasd.org

• Adopt – pets available for adoption can be viewed on our website. Our Martinez shelter is open Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-5PM (10AM-7PM on Wednesday). All pets are currently free to adopt.

• Foster – sign up to become a foster home for one of our shelter pets.

• Volunteer – sign up to volunteer and help socialize and care for the pets in our shelter.

• Help Reunite Lost Dogs – If you find a healthy friendly dog, try to hold onto that dog and help to search for their family. If you’re able to hold onto a lost dog while you look for the owner, you increase the possibility of that dog being reunited with their family. File a FOUND REPORT on our website and notify the lost animal social media sites, like Fido Alert, and post a notice on your NextDoor page. You can also place flyers in your neighborhood. By helping the dog find their family you will also help CCAS provide support for the sick, injured, or in danger dogs that are coming to us every day.

• Spread the Word - Share this message far and wide. You never know who might be looking for a new furry family member or thinking about fostering.

Contra Costa Animal Services must be able to help the animals in our county that are sick, injured or in danger, and to help care for lost pets while we work to reunite them with their families. The team at CCAS is focused on life saving and supporting our community needs. The needs in our community right now are overwhelming and the resources for families to spay/neuter their pets and obtain basic veterinary care are becoming less accessible and financially out of reach for many, which is contributing to more pets coming into the shelter.

We acknowledge that our shelter, like many across California, has been facing a relentless challenge. But we believe in the power of community, in the kindness and empathy that can turn the tides. We're all in this together, and together, we can make sure that no animal is left behind.

What do y'all think? Personally wouldn't mind, as I go to that area all the time for Target since it's on the 38 route.

I think this circus is in Spanish but the language is probably not that important. There will still be acrobats and a guy jumping through a ring of fire.

So I tuned into Live105 for the first time in a couple of weeks this afternoon, and I'm delighted to hear an actual live person announcing something about some upcoming concerts at Chase Center.

Nice! That's an improvement from edgy echo voice guy.

Then she says "This is Megan Holiday" and I go wait a minute that sounds familiar...

So I spent a couple of years living in LA and one of my favorite radio stations there was KROQ, which is has a similar alt rock format to Live105.

So I listened a lot to KROQ's stream while Live105 was off the air.

And the host for KROQ in the same afternoon timeslots is... Megan Holiday!

I mean it doesn't take much time to read copy about upcoming events in different markets, and Ms. Holiday does a good job of localizing the announcements, i.e. she's not just dryly reading the copy.

No real point, I just thought it might be interesting to fellow listeners in the Bay Area.

Just posting this because I didn't realize it! It was shut down for several years due to Covid and actually taken over as a Covid vaccine site, but now it's back.

Good luck to all driving in Santa Clara tonight and tomorrow evening!

Katie Dowd, SFGATE

Since 2018, one company has been methodically buying up the available land around Travis Air Force Base. The transactions have caught the eye of the U.S. government — but no one can figure out who the mystery buyer actually is.

In early July, the Wall Street Journal reported that Flannery Associates has spent almost $1 billion acquiring land that surrounds the base. Despite being in touching distance to the edge of Fairfield's urban center, the base itself is still mostly surrounded by agricultural land. Public records show Flannery Associates is now the biggest landowner in Solano County, with 52,000 acres acquired, the Journal reported. Most of the land the company has bought is south of the base, covering swaths of the agricultural and marshy area down to the Sacramento River in Rio Vista.

“Nobody can figure out who they are,” Rio Vista Mayor Ronald Kott told the Journal. “Whatever they’re doing — this looks like a very long-term play.”

Unsurprisingly, this has caught the attention of the military. According to Congressman John Garamendi, who represents California's 8th District, government officials are unable to track down who makes up the Flannery group. Because the company is registered in Delaware, it does not need to disclose its business partners, a tactic commonly used by LLCs.

"Literally three sides of that base are totally controlled by the Flannery group," Garamendi told ABC7. He called it "reason to be concerned."

"Who are these people?" Garamendi added. "Where did they get the money where they could pay five to ten times the normal value that others would pay for this farmland?"

The Journal reported that Flannery Associates says 97% of its investors are American citizens and the remaining investors are in the U.K. and Ireland. The government and military investigation is ongoing into who bought the land and for what reason.

Construction began on Travis AFB during World War II, and it earned the moniker "Gateway to the Pacific" for its role as a major cargo and troop transport center on the West Coast. Today, it's the largest employer in Solano County with over 13,000 employees.

I've seen BART fare inspectors recently but don't recall seeing them in the past. Is this a new position? Do they only work sometimes throughout the year or do they inspect fares 40 hours a week?

The signs, which are orange and blend seamlessly with the construction signs installed along the bike lane by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, boast slogans like "We regret this bike lane" and "Uh, good luck turning right." The signs express several frustrations that have been voiced by bicyclists since the lanes, which are still technically unfinished, have begun to be used.