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Rookie Rally’s Comeback Win

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11 years ago

August 16, 2014

San Francisco, CA – The Giants rallied a comeback in the sixth scoring four runs to tie the game. But it was Joe Panik that leadoff eighth with a triple to setup the winning play that gave San Francisco the lead and the 6-5 victory over the Phillies.

The second base position has been in flux for much of the entire season. Panik was called up from Triple-A Fresno on June 21st. Since then he’s been making his presence known at second. Today he went 2-for-3 with a walk, RBI and scored the game’s winning run.

“I’ve hit my stride here,” Panik said. “I’m comfortable with where I’m at and I’m really trying to help this team win now.”

Gregor Blanco drove in Panik with a RBI single. But let’s credit the entire offense for rallying the comeback. The Giants caught a huge break in the sixth. Buster Posey leadoff the inning with a single. Pablo Sandoval popped up and the ball dropped between the second and third baseman resulting in a fielder’s choice and an error at second.

San Francisco had two runners on with no outs, Michael Morse who went 3-for-3 hit a RBI double. Panik followed with a infield single that bounced up and over the pitcher who was late with the tag to first and Sandoval scored. Blanco followed with a RBI single and Angel Pagan’s sacrifice fly tied the game 5-5.

“The bats came alive,” said Giants manager Bruce Bochy. “We started placing the ball well, kept the line moving, and when that happens, it really picks up the energy.”

Hunter Pence got things rolling when he went yard in the first giving San Francisco a 1-0 lead. But the Phillies took the lead in the third scoring two runs. Tim Hudson walked Jimmy Rollins and gave up two back-to-back singles. Ryan Howard hit a RBI single and Marlon Byrd followed with a sacrifice fly extending their lead 2-1.

“I didn’t really hold up my end of the bargain,” Hudson said. “But everybody else did and sometimes that’s enough to win. I wasn’t really in sync much of the game, it just wasn’t a very good day for me.”

The Phillies opened up their offense in the fifth by scoring three runs. Ben Revere leadoff the frame with a single followed by a walk to Rollins. Chase Utley hit a RBI double and Howard followed with a two-run single. Hudson was chased off the mound and the bullpen came in to take over.

Hudson surrendered five earned runs on eight hits and three walks. He tossed four innings which marked his second shortest outing this season. The Giants won for the fourth time this season when trailing by four or more runs. Prior to today’s game, San Francisco overcame a four-plus run deficit at home last season on May 25th against Colorado.

“Hopefully where getting back to who we are,” said Bochy. “A team who gets contributions from everybody throughout the lineup.”

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Oakland Post: Week of April 30 – May 6, 2025

The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of April 30 – May 6, 2025

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Gov. Newsom Approves $170 Million to Fast Track Wildfire Resilience

AB 100 approves major investments in regional conservancies across the state, including over $30 million each for the Sierra Nevada, Santa Monica Mountains, State Coastal, and San Gabriel/Lower LA Rivers and Mountains conservancies. An additional $10 million will support wildfire response and resilience efforts.

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April 28, 2025

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By Bo Tefu
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With wildfire season approaching, last week Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 100, unlocking $170 million to fast-track wildfire prevention and forest management projects — many of which directly protect communities of color, who are often hardest hit by climate-driven disasters.

“With this latest round of funding, we’re continuing to increase the speed and size of forest and vegetation management essential to protecting communities,” said Newsom when he announced the funding on April 14.

“We are leaving no stone unturned — including cutting red tape — in our mission to ensure our neighborhoods are protected from destructive wildfires,” he said.

Newsom also signed an executive order suspending certain regulations to allow urgent work to move forward faster.

This funding builds on California’s broader Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan, a $2.7 billion effort to reduce fuel loads, increase prescribed burning, and harden communities. The state has also launched new dashboards to keep the public informed and hold agencies accountable.

California has also committed to continue investing $200 million annually through 2028 to expand this effort, ensuring long-term resilience, particularly in vulnerable communities.

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California Rideshare Drivers and Supporters Step Up Push to Unionize

Today in California, over 600,000 rideshare drivers want the ability to form or join unions for the sole purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection. It’s a right, and recently at the State Capitol, a large number of people, including some rideshare drivers and others working in the gig economy, reaffirmed that they want to exercise it.

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On July 5, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into federal law the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Also known as the “Wagner Act,” the law paved the way for employees to have “the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations,” and “to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, according to the legislation’s language.

On April 8, the rideshare drivers held a rally with lawmakers to garner support for Assembly Bill (AB) 1340, the “Transportation Network Company Drivers (TNC) Labor Relations Act.”

Authored by Assemblymembers Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) and Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), AB 1340 would allow drivers to create a union and negotiate contracts with industry leaders like Uber and Lyft.

“All work has dignity, and every worker deserves a voice — especially in these uncertain times,” Wicks said at the rally. “AB 1340 empowers drivers with the choice to join a union and negotiate for better wages, benefits, and protections. When workers stand together, they are one of the most powerful forces for justice in California.”

Wicks and Berman were joined by three members of the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC): Assemblymembers Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood), Sade Elhawary (D-Los Angeles), and Isaac Bryan (D-Ladera Heights).

Yvonne Wheeler, president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor; April Verrett, President of Service Employees International Union (SEIU); Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU; and a host of others participated in the demonstration on the grounds of the state capitol.

“This is not a gig. This is your life. This is your job,” Bryan said at the rally. “When we organize and fight for our collective needs, it pulls from the people who have so much that they don’t know what to do with it and puts it in the hands of people who are struggling every single day.”

Existing law, the “Protect App-Based Drivers and Services Act,” created by Proposition (Prop) 22, a ballot initiative, categorizes app-based drivers for companies such as Uber and Lyft as independent contractors.

Prop 22 was approved by voters in the November 2020 statewide general election. Since then, Prop 22 has been in court facing challenges from groups trying to overturn it.

However, last July, Prop 22 was upheld by the California Supreme Court last July.

In a 2024, statement after the ruling, Lyft stated that 80% of the rideshare drivers they surveyed acknowledged that Prop 22 “was good for them” and “median hourly earnings of drivers on the Lyft platform in California were 22% higher in 2023 than in 2019.”

Wicks and Berman crafted AB 1340 to circumvent Prop 22.

“With AB 1340, we are putting power in the hands of hundreds of thousands of workers to raise the bar in their industry and create a model for an equitable and innovative partnership in the tech sector,” Berman said.