Friday August 14, 2009 Updated 8:45 PM PDT
Leaders of this famously green city last year passed the nation's first grocery bag fee, and other cities around the nation quickly followed. But the plastics industry has been fighting back.
A personal phone call and the absence of a supervisor during last week's collision over New York's Hudson River has led to two air traffic controllers being removed from duty.
Even when the women were picked up for drugs or prostitution, nights in jail looming, they called home to let their families know they were OK. Then, one by one, the calls stopped.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, President John F. Kennedy's sister, carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special...
SF Gate 8.11.09 4:00 AM
President Obama's summary of the furor over a black Harvard professor's arrest was so understated, and perhaps obvious, that it barely...
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Up here in Alaska, wildlife metaphors tend to be as abundant as their flesh-and-blood counterparts, and Gov. Sarah Palin has helped...
Chronicle 7.26.09 4:00 AM
Even in the state of "The Sopranos" and "On the Waterfront," where corruption seems institutionalized, the arrest of a neophyte mayor...
Chronicle 7.26.09 4:00 AM
President Obama, citing a new White House study suggesting that small businesses pay far more per employee for health insurance than...
Chronicle 7.26.09 4:00 AM
President Obama's top antitrust official and some senior Democratic lawmakers are preparing to rein in a host of major industries...
Chronicle 7.26.09 4:00 AM
A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones...
Chronicle 7.26.09 4:00 AM
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