Business
By Nina Morente on Dec 14 2011 - 10:42am
Occupy protesters contributed to a loss of $4-8 million for the Port of Oakland last Monday after attempting to shut down shipping activity. The port generates about $8.5 million per day, and the losses could cause a ripple effect in companies around the world...
PG&E is finally...
By Ben Trefny on Dec 13 2011 - 6:01pm
People losing their homes has been a national problem, ever since the housing bubble burst, leading the country into recession. A new federal report has revealed that real estate speculation was largely to blame.
Back in 2006 the economy wasn’t bust. It was booming. Investors were...
By Sara Bernard on Dec 13 2011 - 5:29pm
Until 2002, Adrian Allen was working a good paying job in construction.
“I went to school for construction,” she says. “Graduated at the top of my class. I was the only female on an all-men’s crew.”
But then she developed thoracic outlet syndrome, a rare condition that creates terrible...
By Jen Chien on Dec 13 2011 - 5:25pm
Josephine Tolbert’s house is locked. It has a “No Trespassing” sign posted on the front door, but through the small lace-curtained windows at the front of the house, she can still see her daycare business.
It might seem like the worst of the foreclosure crisis is over, but the San Francisco...
By Julie Caine on Dec 13 2011 - 4:35pm
Occupy protesters marched on ports from Anchorage to San Diego Monday in a coordinated action designed to shut down operations.
In Oakland, 150 longshoremen were sent home from work in the morning as a result of the protest, according to ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees. The ILWU, the union...
By Brian Pelletier on Dec 12 2011 - 6:42pm
Brewing beer is a complete sensory experience. I can feel the heat on the stove top as the grains and water are boiled to make the wort, the smell of hops fills the kitchen. Later, I can hear yeast feasting on the freshly brewed wort and see the release of the gaseous bubbles that result.
Making...
By Audrey Dilling on Dec 12 2011 - 6:39pm
Looking back at 2011, it was a year for earthquake awareness. The world witnessed the devastating effects of earthquakes in Japan earlier this year, and on Haiti and Chile in previous years. This past October, two earthquakes struck the Bay Area on the 22nd anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake...
By Sara Bernard on Dec 8 2011 - 10:12am
A report by the Public Policy Institute of California offers grim, and perhaps predictable, results: the middle class is shrinking to less than 50 percent across the state, and Bay Area incomes have dropped 12 percent since the recession started...
The Oakland Police Department has dropped audio...
By Steven Short on Dec 7 2011 - 1:39pm
Santa Claus knows when you're naughty or nice, and this year he also knows that many families are having tough times financially.
Those fabled yard-long Christmas gift lists that children make are shorter this year, according to the Associated Press. The AP quotes one Santa from North Carolina...
By Joaquin Palomino on Dec 7 2011 - 9:43am
Early this morning police took down San Francisco’s Occupy encampment – the last large Occupy camp in the Bay Area. Seventy people were arrested, a few on felony charges of assaulting an officer…
Meanwhile, anti-tax groups filed a ballot measure today in response to...
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