Human Interest
Occasionally, getting people to the polls is a glamorous job. After all, P. Diddy, Justin Timberlake, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson all rocked the vote back in their day. But usually, voter outreach is a rough business. Of the 13,000 people you might call to encourage to vote, you'll talk...
A new study indicates that emergency room wait-times in California average 274 minutes. Iowa has the shortest wait-times, and California is 99 minutes behind…
The wait-time has increased regarding a decision over whether State Controller John Chiang must issue minimum wage checks to state...
On Monday, an intern for the Mountain View tech firm, Covia Labs, stepped out onto a San Francisco street, fiddling with an iPhone. Moments later, a passing bicyclist snatched the phone from her hands, and raced off.
Since then, the blogosphere (including us here at KALW News) has been giggling at...
In between reading up on those November propositions and measures, you may want to take a break and indulge in a good old-fashioned arm-wrestle! The first organized arm wrestling competition was held in 1952 right here in Petaluma. Thirty-five years later, the film “Over the Top” starring Sylvester...
Yesterday, we took a look at the college demographic called the Millennial Generation and their place in our economy. Right now, Millenials, who are between the ages of 10 and 28, are graduating from college to the worst job market in ages.
Lynne Lancaster is co-author of the new book, The M-...
The government has ordered BP to step up monitoring of its undersea well. The New York Times reports that government scientists talked late Sunday with BP about a seep and possible detection of methane. If oil, gas or both are escaping from the well up to the seafloor, the government may order BP...
Move over boomers and X-ers, there's a new generation in town: the so-called “millennial generation”. It’s made up of people born between 1982 and 2000, and it's poised to rival the baby boomers as the largest generation in history, some 80 million people.
As they’ve begun trickling into the...
Social services all over the country are hurting from the weak economy, and for some, it’s become a matter of life and death. The waiting list to receive life-sustaining drugs for people with H.I.V. or AIDS has ballooned to 2,100 people nationwide. In response, the Obama Administration is...
This story is about something we can probably all relate to: not wanting to throw something away. Maybe it’s a baseball card collection, or a garage full of unread National Geographic magazines. But when the need to acquire and keep things crosses a certain threshold, it’s known as hoarding. It's a...
President Obama is getting back on the horn tomorrow, this time addressing comprehensive immigration reform rather than oil spills, Wall Street or healthcare. The president has been in talks nearly every day this week, meeting with community groups and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus...
Carletta Sue Kay
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