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By Alexandra Muller on Dec 13 2011 - 10:46am
Newly-elected mayor Ed Lee wants to eliminate homelessness in San Francisco, and he says the magic number to do it is three million -- dollars, that is. $500,000 of those dollars come from a Dave Matthews Band fundraising concert in 2005...
65% of California adults support Governor Jerry Brown's...
By Holly McDede on Dec 7 2011 - 5:50pm
California is facing a $13 billion budget shortfall over the next year and a half, and it’s safe to say that the pain will be felt across public services. In some parts of the Bay Area, incoming tax dollars won’t be enough to buy even books for libraries. That’s why, in places like Santa Clarita,...
By Erica Mu on Dec 7 2011 - 5:49pm
Long before Beyonce decided to redefine “diva” for pop culture, the term was associated with high culture. Nevertheless, divas of then and now have maintained a reputation, as late comedian Anna Russell explains, “…you would need to be a glorious-voiced, independently wealthy, sexy, politically...
By Chris Connelly on Dec 1 2011 - 5:04pm
Technology has done great things for medicine: Machines can help keep hearts beating and lungs breathing. Electronic medical records help doctors keep track of their patients’ treatment and prevent mistakes. But all that technology needs a lot of monitoring – and that can be frustrating for nurses...
By Shuka Kalantari on Nov 28 2011 - 5:02pm
Over the past decade, California has resettled more Middle Eastern refugees than any other state in the country. In Northern California, Santa Clara County in the South Bay is a resettlement hub for Middle Eastern refugees – more than 1,300 moved there since 2006. About one out of three of those...
By Shuka Kalantari on Nov 28 2011 - 4:24pm
Many Middle Eastern refugees are Iraqis who have fled war-related violence. But in the past decade, the largest number of refugees have actually come from Iran.
More than 15,000 Iranians have moved to California just since 2006. Though their country isn’t currently at war, many Iranians suffer...
By Julie Caine on Nov 17 2011 - 5:09pm
The Bay Area’s first real freeway was the 880. Completed in 1957, it connects the Port of Oakland with San Jose. Today it’s a major trucking route, and the most direct way to get to the Oakland Airport, or to a Raiders game.
But those things aren’t what set it apart from other freeways. Of...
By Steven Short on Nov 10 2011 - 3:37pm
As we watch social unrest spread around the Bay Area, we remember San Francisco in the 1960s. It was a melting pot of ideas, in politics, lifestyle choices, and in music.
This was especially true for Latin musicians. It was a mix of rhythms and styles coming together … a whole generation of artists...
By Steven Short on Nov 3 2011 - 5:05pm
Buried Treasure is the Crosscurrents staff blog, showcasing our daily favorites: headlines, radio stories, internet errata, and anything else we come across and think is cool.
Usually something has to be very old before the Smithsonian Institution pays much attention to it. But not-so-old Bay Area...
By Casey Miner on Oct 26 2011 - 5:42pm
Occupy Oakland has been making international headlines. Early yesterday morning police shut down the tent city that stood in front of Frank Ogawa Plaza for nearly two weeks. KALW’s criminal justice reporter Ali Winston reported from the plaza.
By late afternoon, as many as a thousand people...
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