What we said: "If you encounter legal trouble, no problem, just rewrite the law. That's the approach taken by an engineering firm blocked from working on a $4.5 billion rebuild of San Francisco's...
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Thanks to the recession, rents all over the Bay Area are softening - and in the city of San Francisco, rental vacancy rates are expected to increase in 2009. So why would the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
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The Milken Institute recently released a report, "Manufacturing 2.0: A More Prosperous California," which paints, at best, a grim picture of California's manufacturing business environment....
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Most biomedical research is framed by an outdated view of disease, a linear mind-set that focuses on simple causes rather than complex relationships within dynamic systems. If we are to achieve President...
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A lack of respect I was shocked to read in Willie Brown's column June 28 about the lavish party given by the Shultzes in "honor" of retired Gen. Eric Shinseki. That these privileged and wealthy...
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If you encounter legal trouble, no problem, just rewrite the law. That's the approach taken by an engineering firm blocked from working on a $4.5 billion rebuild of San Francisco's water system....
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State workers feel budget pain, too Today my husband came home from work and delivered quite a blow to our family. He informed me that the governor has taken another day of work from him. That cuts our...
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What we said: "The Environmental Protection Agency has rejected California's plan to institute higher emissions standards for cars and light trucks. The excuse offered by EPA Administrator Stephen...
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As the unemployment rate reaches record highs and the recession strips workers of jobs that may never come back, adult education classes that teach basic skills - English and math skills necessary for...
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The Honduran military surrounded the Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa on Sunday morning, kidnapped President Manuel Zelaya in his pajamas and packed him off to Costa Rica in a plane. Within hours, a...
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Bernie Madoff's victims got their bitter justice Monday. As Madoff left the courtroom to begin his prison term of 150 years, the last thing he heard was their whoops and cheers. The Ponzi-scheme king...
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The U.S. Supreme Court undermined a key part of federal civil-rights employment law on affirmative action Monday with its ruling in favor of white firefighters in Connecticut who claimed they were unfairly...
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As I sat in my San Francisco apartment listening to the June 12 Iranian election results, Iranian friends and I tipped virtual champagne glasses when Mir Hossein Mousavi announced victory. A moment later,...
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Until Iran's election and ensuing political crisis, many Silicon Valley companies had ignored Persian-language services almost entirely. It's easy to understand why. First, there's an American...
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RAPID CITY, S.D. AP -- Police arrested a man they said tried to rob a hotel around 6 p.m. on Sunday with a butter knife. The clerk refused to give the man any money, and he left the hotel on foot. Police...
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WESTBURY, N.Y. AP -- Nassau County police said a congregant at a Long Island church disregarded at least one of its commandments: Thou shalt not steal. Police said the 46-year-old woman reached over a...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. AP -- A shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest. David McKenzie, 55, of Federal Way,...
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. AP -- A Wisconsin teenager using a classic excuse for evading schoolwork missed a class trip to Peru despite his tale being true: The dog ate his passport....
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