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By Molly Samuel on Oct 26 2011 - 5:32pm
Take a quick look around while on Muni, BART, or AC Transit, and you’ll notice that a lot of the people who depend on public transit are seniors. But not all seniors are that comfortable navigating the system. So at ages 70, 80, and 90, as Molly Samuel reports, some seniors are going back to school...
By Max Pringle on Oct 11 2011 - 4:58pm
If you take a look at the list of contributors to the San Francisco-based novel, No Rest for the Dead, it reads like a mystery writers’ hall of fame: Jeffrey Deaver, Diana Gabaldon, John Lescoart, Faye Kellerman, R.L. Stine, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Michael Palmer…
All of these writers...
By Sindya Bhanoo on Jun 29 2011 - 5:05pm
We live in a digital age – laptops, smart phones, tablets. Most of us have no idea how these things really work, but we depend on them – especially in times of crisis.
When a massive earthquake struck Haiti last year, a group of volunteer programmers came together in Washington D.C. for two...
By Ben Trefny on Mar 3 2011 - 5:30pm
Today was the last day of federal hearings for PG&E in Washington, D.C. The company has been under close scrutiny since its gas pipeline burst in San Bruno last September, killing 8 people and destroying dozens of homes. So far, the investigation has made some crucial revelations regarding the...
By Rina Palta on Dec 2 2010 - 3:59pm
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); }Earlier this week, a case went to the US Supreme Court that will have tremendous impact on California’s prison system. At issue is a federal court order that requires California to substantially reduce its prison population.
If the U.S....
By Mitzi Mock on Aug 26 2010 - 4:12pm
As of this week, most Bay Area schools are back in session, and if you haven’t heard, they’re in for a rough year. Over the last two years the state has decimated public school funding — $17 billion cut so far. To quote a former governor, "It’s trickle down economics." If the state doesn’t have...
By Erica Mu on Aug 25 2010 - 1:15pm
San Francisco made the top five of the worst U.S. cities for traffic. San Francisco came in trailing – or beating – Houston, Atlanta, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles…
While you were busy with the rat race yesterday, California public education lost a race of its own – Race to the Top. The state isn...
By Nathanael Johnson on Jul 1 2010 - 4:51pm
For months, watchdog groups and critics of the California high speed rail project have claimed that a study of projected ridership on the proposed super-train was wildly incorrect. The High Speed Rail Authority has acknowledged that one of its numbers was off by an order of magnitude, but has...
By Nathanael Johnson on May 17 2010 - 2:54pm
California has long been a laboratory for legislation that later is adopted by other states, or the federal government. Just as Broadway producers often refine their plays in San Francisco before taking them to New York, California has been a springboard for policy on its way to the...
By Clinton Killian on May 7 2010 - 3:07pm
The Oakland City Council voted to place a parcel tax on the November ballot to raise approximately $18 million and also voted to increase the individual user utility tax to raise $2.4 millions. This is about half the projected $42 million deficit. These new taxes do not come with any...
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