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Are you an organ donor? Have you thought about organ donation at all? It’s a heavy subject, especially when you factor in what it means: you die, you give your body parts to someone else -- it’s a very personal decision to make.
But, consider this: according to the California Transplant Donor...
Early this week we aired a story on PG&E's SmartMeters. In case you missed it, here's a snippet:
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1 [Clip from PG&E SmartMeter Commercial]: The promise of a green economy is an improved environment, new jobs, and more efficient, sustainable living practices...
UNIDENTIFIED...
A new report says California's high-speed rail system would eliminate greenhouse gasses from the system and create thousands of permanent jobs. What kinds of jobs the system would create remain to be seen...
For now, job seekers may have to settle for low-paying, labor-intensive jobs...
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The global bottled water industry is worth tens of billions of dollars, and a new book is highly critical of it. It's called "Bottled & Sold," and it’s by Peter Gleick. He is co-founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland. He's also a...
There’s a lot to buy at the start of the school year: "back to school" clothes, composition notebooks, backpacks, number-two pencils. It can be a headache if you are a parent who’s short on cash, but at least you are not $122 million short.
That’s the case for the Oakland Unified School District....
So classes are underway in almost all districts in the Bay Area. They've also started at the Bay Area's esteemed institutions of higher education: Cal Berkeley started classes last week (go Bears), Stanford started this week (go Cardinal), and the latest addition to our local schools with national...
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...
Last week, the University of California at Berkeley was instructed by the California Department of Public Health to significantly scale back its “Bring your Genes to Cal” program.
That’s the innovative, and controversial, program asking freshmen coming into the College of Letters and Science to...
For over a century, the U.S. military had bases all over the Bay Area. In Oakland, Alameda and San Francisco, the Army and Navy built installations, trained personnel and moved cargo and ships in and out of ports. But in the 1990s, with the end of the Cold War, the military began pulling out,...
Often huge developments like Mission Bay or AT&T park define a city for decades.
There’s been one man whose job is to make big visions like those a reality. Michael Cohen is the director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development. That is, he was the director. After 15 years of public...
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