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Feb. 25th, 2009 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamusedinatxTo help non-profit and charity organizations hard hit by the recession, San Francisco's ZIPCAR offers free cars to charity workers.
Three years after three kids are stabbed during a Berkeley house party there is an arrest in the death of one of the three kids. Why did it take three years when there were over 50 witnesses to the altercation? This "no snitch" attitude on the street.
Meanwhile this bloke gives a nasty new spin on the phrase 'skirt chaser'.
New Oakland Toyota Dealership, supposedly a model of recession proof auto sales, closes.
New documentary showcases the cultural idiosyncrasies of Berkeley Native's experience as an Iranian-American.
San Jose's Song That radio fights to educate on gay awareness to the Vietnamese population here and across the Pacific.
Traditional newspapers are dying by the dozen. Hearst's San Francisco Chroncile is likely next. Likely as in next week.
San Francisco Port Authority confiscated 20 pounds of Opium and we're not talking perfume.
California assemblyman suggests legalizing and taxing pot as a revenue earner for the state.
The East Bay gears up for the 2010 census. There's a job ready and waiting for those willing.
Growing waves of uninsured flood area clinics and hospitals.
And while the phrase "buy American" may make some cringe and others wonder if America truly "makes" ANYTHING any more, US wine EXPORTS are up 6 percent!
California attorney reviews the old and oft discussed issue of splitting California in two.
Three years after three kids are stabbed during a Berkeley house party there is an arrest in the death of one of the three kids. Why did it take three years when there were over 50 witnesses to the altercation? This "no snitch" attitude on the street.
Meanwhile this bloke gives a nasty new spin on the phrase 'skirt chaser'.
New Oakland Toyota Dealership, supposedly a model of recession proof auto sales, closes.
New documentary showcases the cultural idiosyncrasies of Berkeley Native's experience as an Iranian-American.
San Jose's Song That radio fights to educate on gay awareness to the Vietnamese population here and across the Pacific.
Traditional newspapers are dying by the dozen. Hearst's San Francisco Chroncile is likely next. Likely as in next week.
San Francisco Port Authority confiscated 20 pounds of Opium and we're not talking perfume.
California assemblyman suggests legalizing and taxing pot as a revenue earner for the state.
The East Bay gears up for the 2010 census. There's a job ready and waiting for those willing.
Growing waves of uninsured flood area clinics and hospitals.
And while the phrase "buy American" may make some cringe and others wonder if America truly "makes" ANYTHING any more, US wine EXPORTS are up 6 percent!
California attorney reviews the old and oft discussed issue of splitting California in two.
