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craigslist now in over 700 cities
Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist.org
Hey, people invite us in, and we respond! Here's just the top of the list the sysadmins sent me. +-------------------------+--------+---------+----------------+ | romania | | RO | bucharest | | ghana | | GH | accra | | ethiopia | | ET | addisababa | | kuwait | | KW | kuwait | | bolivia | | BO | lapaz | | reykjavik | | IS ... Read more »
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Will Durst
Political Comedian
President Obama spent part of his vacation at the Grand Canyon. Probably a cautionary trip to view Bush's final approval ratings. Read more »
08.21.09 at 12:15 PM | Comment count loading...
A Call for Civility in UC Protests
Frances Dinkelspiel
Author / Journalist
Early Thursday morning, a car exploded outside the house of UC President Mark Yudof. Within minutes, police from Oakland and UC Berkeley were on the scene, checking out the damage and opening an... Read more »
08.21.09 at 10:53 AM | Comment count loading...
The New Rumpelstiltskin: Google Books
Michelle Richmond
Author / Booklover / Observer of Neighborhoods
There's a new Rumpelstiltskin in town, but he's not going after the miller's daughter. This Rumpelstiltskin has set his sights on authors, who, according to critics, may unwittingly spin him buckets... Read more »
08.21.09 at 10:18 AM | Comment count loading...
Chinatown, My Chinatown
William Wong
Author, Journalist, Oral Historian
Chinatown. No, not Roman Polanski's legendary movie starring Jack Nicholson, but a real Chinatown, like the one in Oakland, CA, where I was born and grew up, or the mother of all American Chinatowns... Read more »
08.21.09 at 8:10 AM | Comment count loading...
The Shame of the Self-Righteous Scot
Alan Black
The Tartan View
Of course, it's an outrage that the Lockerbie convict went free. For the sake of trying to understand the course of events, we might look at the Scottish legal system. Scotland is the only country in... Read more »
08.20.09 at 2:26 PM | Comment count loading...
Outsourcing Death
Michael Yaki
Attorney & Political Consultant
The Central Intelligence Agency -- as Herb Caen would have said, a self-cancelling phrase -- tried to outsource assassinations on top Al Qaeda leaders, according to the New York Times . You couldn't... Read more »
08.20.09 at 1:46 PM | Comment count loading...
Bolivia: South America's hidden jewel
Pia Chatterjee
Writer and Traveler
The white cars line up in front of the white basilica. There are twenty, thirty of them, all of them white, queuing up to be blessed by the priest. Each car is decorated - they have large paper... Read more »
08.20.09 at 8:42 AM | Comment count loading...
A sign of how bad things are at KRON, part 2
Jayson Landeza
Pastor, St. Columba Catholic Church, Oakland
This past Sunday, Rich Lieberman wrote about how bad things were at KRON. Well, in addition to filling bottom-of-the-screen news headline spaces with ads, they're now adding to the abandoned vehicle... Read more »
08.19.09 at 11:17 PM | Comment count loading...
Leah's List Day Three: The Green Small Office
Leah D. Williams
CEO, Strategies, LLC
Can the green small office exist and save money? Quite simply - yes. First, what does "green" mean? Well, Leah's List is not going to take on the role of defining it for all but here it will mean ... Read more »
08.19.09 at 11:21 AM | Comment count loading...
Authors: Your publisher is rich. Why aren't you?
Joe Quirk
Novelist, Humorist, Ghostwriter
I bet your agent owns a summer home in upstate New York. FACT: Book store clerks at Barnes & Noble make more money per year than most published authors. Why is this? I went to Barnes & Noble and... Read more »
08.19.09 at 11:05 AM | Comment count loading...
Governor's role in political water theater not Oscar material
John Laird
Recovering Legislator
California water politics have moved to center stage. Delta farmers demonstrated on the Capitol steps this week against a Peripheral Canal and for a fortified delta. Central Valley farmers bussed... Read more »
08.19.09 at 10:45 AM | Comment count loading...
Back to (money) school
Erica Sandberg
Personal Finance Expert / Reporter
Yup, mom and dad, it's back to school time again. If you're like many parents (me included) you've been doing at least a little shopping for the new class year. Backpacks, lunch boxes, assorted... Read more »
08.19.09 at 8:47 AM | Comment count loading...
Colin Powell rumored to be selected for high-level post
Zennie62
08.21.09 at 3:20 PM | Comment count loading...
Democrats... an emasculated majority?
Yobie Benjamin
08.21.09 at 12:30 PM | Comment count loading...
If in doubt, rip the Raiders; Cable affair brings out vultures; Update
Rich Lieberman
08.21.09 at 9:05 AM | Comment count loading...
Fetch the endangered species' poop, Spot -- Good doggy!
Ken White
08.20.09 at 11:30 AM | Comment count loading...
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