High-speed rail costs go up, Oakland city workers rally against austere budget, Board of Supervisors move toward requiring so-called soft-story seismic retrofits, more.
- The Board of Supervisors gave initial approval to a proposed law to require at least 2,800 buildings to make seismic retrofits. KTVU 2
- Another boost in the projected cost of the state’s $69-billion high-speed-rail project, with rail leaders saying it will cost an extra $97 million in office and field work to design the line. Mercury News
- With Oakland’s leaders preparing a budget that calls for two more years of austerity, unionized city workers rallied Tuesday, accusing the city of crying poverty. Oakland Tribune
- San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed sent a letter to baseball commissioner Bud Selig asking for a personal meeting to help break the A’s-to-San Jose logjam. Mercury News
- A new audit accused the troubled College of Marin Foundation of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for college programs on consultants, lawyers and other professional services. Marin IJ
- A Union City man was sentenced to 128 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl whose parents let him take her to a Halloween party. Bay City News Service
- Two men were charged in the murder of a Hayward man at the Bay Fair BART station. Mercury News
- Oops! East Palo Alto gang members apparently videotaped themselves threatening to kill the 5-year-old son of a rival. San Mateo County Times
- Turns out the man who crashed his car into a San Jose Walmart store over the weekend before getting out and attacking people also allegedly crashed a car into a San Jose service station in December while high on meth. Mercury News
- The state Legislature took the first steps toward tighter gun controls, with a key Assembly committee approving a bill to restrict ammunition sales. Mercury News
- The Giants beat the Dodgers 3-0 to even their season-opening series in Los Angeles. Chronicle
- The A’s dropped their second game in a row to Seattle, 7-1 at the Coliseum. Mercury News
