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Retired Alameda County Sheriff’s Lt. Jim Knudsen added a real life perspective to the Board of Supervisors’ decision to end the Urban Shield anti-terrorist training program. The supervisors voted 3-2 (the valley’s supervisors, Nate Miley and Scott Haggerty opposed) to establish conditions that violated the contract with the federal agency funding the training. As expected, […]

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