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Is 'Healthy San Francisco' Unhealthy For The City?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Nov. 20 (Investigative Report) - This article comes to us courtesy of the San Francisco Public Press. By Barbara Grady Four years ago, San Francisco launched a grand experiment, becoming...

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Gavin Newsom Flees San Francisco

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Aaron Sankin - Jul. 13 (News Report) - It didn't take long after vacating City Hall for former mayor Gavin Newsom to hightail it out of San Francisco. Wife, daughter and newborn son in tow, the lieutenant governor crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and set up camp inside his in-laws' five bedroom, five bath Marin County estate. Both Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, grew up in Marin, so this move must doubtlessly feel like a homecoming for the couple. Newsom went to Redwood High School in Larkspur and his wife attended the Branson School, only a few short steps from her childhood home in Ross.

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Supervisor Wasserman Opposes Plastic Bag Ban - Los Gatos, CA Patch

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

patch.com - By Bay City News Service - Apr. 26 (News Report) - Former Los Gatos mayor is the lone dissenter as the rest of his peers approve ban for county's unincorporated areas.

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Obama Visits the S(lush) F(und) Bay Area

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Zombia - Apr. 23 (Special Report) - After satiating the hoi polloi with his Facebook stagecraft, Obama set off for some hardcore fundraisin’ — the real point of the visit. The first, and swankiest, of his three whirlwind back-to-back-to-back fundraisers was a $35,800/plate (not a typo) dinner at the Presidio Heights home of billionaire Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. This time I was waiting for him. But here there were no large crowds, no organized protests — because the exact location of the fundraiser had never been released. I myself uncovered it through a bit of detective work, but just about everyone else there were passersby who stumbled on the event by accident.

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Is There Enough Water for People to Drink and to Protect Endangered Fish? - Santa Cruz, CA Patch

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

patch.com - By Brad Kava - Apr. 17 (News) - If the city can't get a federal permit for drinking water, residents may see the most strict rationing ever.

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U.S.G.S. Says Menlo Park Will Be Fine - Menlo Park, CA Patch

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

patch.com - Apr. 07 (News Report) - Today's earthquake in Japan on a different tectonic plate than last month's.

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Skeptical City Council Picks Apart Organic Waste Plan - Palo Alto, CA Patch

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

patch.com - By Aaron Selverston - Mar. 22 (News) - Shipping the city’s food scraps, yard trimmings and solid organic waste to large, regional facilities may pump twice as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as a local aerobic digestion plant, and may not be any cheaper, according to a report presented to the Palo Alto City Council.

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Cupertino’s Chinese Community Reacts to Proposed Shark Fin Ban - Cupertino, CA Patch

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

patch.com - By Anjana Sundaram - Feb. 20 (News) - Ban of delicacy item finds itself in center of community debate.

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With Housekeeper Scandal as Backdrop, Whitman and Brown Debate in Fresno

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bay Citizen - By Jennifer Gollan - Oct. 03 (News Report) - It presented a peculiar tableau: Billionaire Meg Whitman on Saturday fending off attacks from her Democratic gubernatorial rival, Attorney General Jerry Brown, who claimed that she mistreated her poor, undocumented maid--in a Spanish-language debate in the Central Valley. Then everything went dark. Midway into their second gubernatorial debate on Saturday, a technical glitch with the audio system forced the candidates from the stage at the Satellite Student Union at California State University Fresno. The debate resumed a half-hour later, punctuating a similarly rollercoaster week in which Nicky Diaz Santillan, an illegal immigrant, claimed that Whitman and her husband knew that she was undocumented before they fired her in June 2009, with little care that she could be deported. "

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Residents Reported Leak Days Before Explosion

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bay Citizen - By Shoshana Walter, Gerry Shih - Sep. 10 (News Report) - Residents of the San Bruno neighborhood devastated byThursday's explosion said PG&E investigated a pungent gas leak over the previous week but did not take action. They already knew about the leak and they didnt do anything, said Alex Monroy, who lives on Claremont Drive, not far from where a broken gas main burst into flames early Thursday evening, scorching everything around it. PG&E has confirmed that one of its high-pressure natural gas transmission lines ruptured, causing the blaze that destroyed 53 homes, damaged 120 and killed at least three people. The explosion happened shortly aft 6 p.m. on Thursday and left a 15-foot-deep crater in the pavement. A massive fireball raged for more than an hour, radiating heat that could be felt through closed car

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Oakland Foot Locker Store Looted During Protest of Mehserle Verdict

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

YouTube - By Anna - Jul. 09 (News) - Videos posted to YouTube show looters breaking into a Foot Locker store in Oakland, Calif., after a verdict was announced in the trial of a former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed BART passenger, Oscar Grant. On Thursday, a jury in Los Angeles found ex-BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Protesters who gathered in Oakland's streets complained Mehserle should have been found guilty of murder.

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'Top Four American Cities' | Miller-McCune

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Erik Hayden - Apr. 04 (News) - University of Louisville researcher H.V. Savitch asks what makes a great city great and develops some criteria for determining the best.

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Young, Black, Male, Single--and Homeless in San Jose - NAM

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By La Mar Williams - Feb. 18 (Other) - Being one of the millions of unemployed black men in the country--and now homeless--as his 25th birthday approaches makes it hard to celebrate. But the writer has found a creative core and optimism to propel him forward.

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Back To School: The John Yoo Edition - Law Blog - WSJ

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

blogs.wsj.com - By Ashby Jones - Aug. 18 (Breaking News) - “There is little doubt that John Yoo is a war criminal,” said civil rights attorney Dan Siegel, speaking outside Boalt Hall. “John Yoo went to Washington and created the ideological, political and legal basis for the torture of innocent people.”

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What Housing Downturn?

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

spot.us - By Alice Chen - Jul. 15 (Special Report) - If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’d probably think that housing in the Bay Area would be a bargain right now– or at the very least, much more affordable. After all, many news outlets have reported that median prices for homes sold in April dropped an astonishing 41% compared to last April, and 54% from the peak. But if you’re a buyer, especially in prime areas like Berkeley, Mountain View or Lafayette, you’d quickly discover that home values have not dropped anywhere near that amount. In some cases, like Palo Alto or Sausalito, prices have even gone up slightly. (See this spreadsheet for more info: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6177652/Bay-Area-Home-Prices also embeded at bottom of this post) Why the discrepancy? First off, you should probably look at the data. Many news outlets focus on prices of sold homes. The problem is that about half of the homes sold in the past few months have been foreclosures, and sales volumes at high-end markets have been anemic. Both of those factors drag down the median price for homes sold.

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Stimulus Plan Will Net Berkeley Unified School District $4 Million Over Two Years

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

berkeleydailyplanet.com - By Riya Bhattacharjee - Jan. 29 (News Report) - The $819 billion federal economic recovery package that the House approved Wednesday will inject California’s public school system with nearly $10 billion in federal aid over the next two years, providing funds for scholarships, child-care development, at-risk children, Head Start, school renovations and other programs. Under the proposed stimulus package, the Berkeley Unified School District is set to receive a little over $4 million over the next two years in combined construction, special education and Title I funding increases, with $2.5 million allocated for 2009-10 and the remaining assigned for the next fiscal year... Riddle said that the proposal itself was very encouraging since it would fund previously neglected programs such as special education, providing a boost to children who require special care and attention to succeed but don’t always have the financial capabilities. “The federal government spends so little on education, that to have them target things like early childhood education and school renovations—which would create jobs for a lot of people—is really great,” she said. “I am hopeful that they will do something about K-12 education as well.”

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Schwarzenegger Signs Global Warming Solutions Act

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:57:59 -0700

North Gate News - By Alexis Martin - Sep. 28 (News Report) - (student report) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Global Warming Solutions Act Wednesday, a comprehensive cap on the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, refineries and other large consumers of gas, oil, and coal, in a groundbreaking move that puts California ahead of the nation in the fight against global warming. The law, formerly known as Assembly Bill 32, requires state greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. The California Air Resources Board will develop a list of short-term measures for reducing emissions to be enacted by 2010, followed in two years by a statewide cap designed to meet the 2020 goals. "AB32 will begin a bold new era of environmental protection in California that will change history," Schwarzenegger said. "Nothing is more important than protecting our planet. The fight against global warming is one of the biggest issues of our time." California has led the nation in addressing global warming since 2002, when the state Legislature passed limits on greenhouse gas emissions for cars and trucks, a bill sponsored by state Rep. Fran Pavley, (D-Agoura Hills), primary author of AB32. Since passage of the 2002 regulations, eight states have followed suit.

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Berkeley Thai Community Watching Coup Abroad

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:36:06 -0700

North Gate News - By Sindya N. Bhanoo - Sep. 23 (News Report) - (student report) Berkeley's Thai community had mixed views on Tuesday's military coup that ousted Prime Minister Thanksin Shinawatra. But most agreed that with the support of the King, a beloved figure in Thai society, life would soon return to normal. "I haven't heard that there is violence or resistance against the current coup...my family back in Thailand told me that everything seems normal except for the military presence," said Jonas Jarat, a U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. student from Thailand. U.C. Berkeley student and Thai American Nicholas Kulavitaya said that dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Shinawatra had been growing over the year. "Everyone knew something was going to happen. It was just a matter of when." Kulavitaya's family, in the U.S. and in Thailand, is hopeful that General Sonthi Boonyaraglin, the military leader who spearheaded the coup, will restore Thailand to democracy.

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