Voleine Amilcar, of Oakland, right, dances with others during the Oakland Museum of California’s Hella Juneteenth Festival 2025 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, and backed by The Carlyle Group, Sciens Building Solutions is a fire and life safety company focused on protecting lives and reducing business risk.

The road commission meeting is at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12 at the administration building, 31001 Lahser Road in Beverly Hills, People can listen to the meeting by phone.

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Oakland must do rightby hotel’s tenants Re: “ California Hotel beset by disrepair, disrepute ” (Page A1, June 1).

Government runs on acronyms. In California, few inspire such strong reactions as CEQA. Those four letters stand for the California Environmental Quality Act. It’s a state law that’s been ...