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Massive Water Bond delayed: Back to more realistic water solutions
Peter Gleick
President, Pacific Institute
Last night, the California Legislature pulled the massive $11 billion water bond from the November ballot and moved it to 2012. The Pacific Institute recently published a comprehensive independent analysis of the bond analyzing its cost, provisions, and legal requirements. The proposition [The Safe, Clean and Reliable... Read more »
08.10.10 at 9:12 AM | Comment count loading...
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To neuter or not to neuter: Is that really still the question?
Ken White
President, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA
A question I was just asked, really a question of something that I take as such a given that it truly caught me by surprise, is worth discussing here. It went like this: "I'm sure that, considering... Read more »
08.10.10 at 8:29 AM | Comment count loading...
ATM debit card crime: it hits home
Erica Sandberg
Personal Finance Expert / Reporter
Ever have your credit or banking information taken and used without your permission? It happened to me yesterday. I was out shopping when I received a call from my bank, reporting suspicious card... Read more »
08.09.10 at 4:17 PM | Comment count loading...
Losing the Real Culture War
Dr. Jim Taylor
Ph.D., Psychology, author, speaker
In recent decades, America has become embroiled in a so-called "culture war" between the right and left, red states and blue states. This culture war, supposedly fought over the moral values that are... Read more »
08.09.10 at 6:00 AM | Comment count loading...
The POWER of PV
Danny Kennedy
President, Sungevity
A study by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) has concluded that renewable energy could make up 95% of worldwide electricity by mid-century. If clean energy saw such a... Read more »
08.08.10 at 4:30 PM | Comment count loading...
Are we over medicating our kids?
Toni Brayer, MD
Physician, Internal Medicine
It is summer camp season for kids and well run camps require a medical history and record of prescription medications that the child is taking. One prestigious camp for teens in Southern California... Read more »
08.08.10 at 3:57 PM | Comment count loading...
Autism: Award winning documentary at Sausalito Film Festival
Laura Shumaker
Writer and Autism Pro
"I'm like a hermit on an island," is the way Patrick Wanker describes his life with autism . The Bay Area premiere of the award winning film How I Am (Wie Ich Bin) is at the Sausalito Film Festival... Read more »
08.08.10 at 10:53 AM | Comment count loading...
Flag Raising Robester
Will Durst
Political Comedian
Just when you thought we were settling in for another typical slow August news month, along comes Chief US District Justice Vaughan Walker to overturn California's Proposition 8. The one that banned... Read more »
08.07.10 at 3:20 PM | Comment count loading...
Stalling on the water bond is good for private interests, bad for average Californians
Elanor Starmer
Food & Water Watch, Regional Director
Legislation to delay the $11 billion water bond is expected to be taken up in the State Legislature on Monday. Sadly, this stalling tactic is an attempt to pull a fast one on voters. Supporters of... Read more »
08.06.10 at 3:48 PM | Comment count loading...
Time to go with the flow in the Delta
Laura Harnish
Environmental Defense Fund Regional Director
Laura Harnish at Ft. Mason Salmon Summit on April 1, 2010, demanding more flows for the Bay-Delta By living in San Francisco or the surrounding Bay Area, you can't help but be connected to the... Read more »
08.06.10 at 1:21 PM | Comment count loading...
The junior scientists club
Mark Coggins
Novelist, essayist
According to the National Vital Statistics System , life expectancy at birth for an American boy born in the late 1950s was somewhere between 66 and 67 years. That number is an average of course... Read more »
08.06.10 at 9:00 AM | Comment count loading...
Airport body scanner scandal erupts
Chris McGinnis
Frequent Travel Advisor
TSA agent in San Jose views image from body scanner at press event. Just as Oakland became the last of the Bay Area's three airports to install full-body scanners at security checkpoints this week, a... Read more »
08.05.10 at 5:46 PM | Comment count loading...
Real public service cease smoking thing from official antismoking org
Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist.org
Hey, the folks at American Legacy Foundation are the real deal, set up by lots of states as part of a settlement deal with the tobacco companies. They run the Truth campaign, trying to prevent... Read more »
08.05.10 at 12:52 PM | Comment count loading...
Fantasia Barrino overdose from aspirin and sleeping aid
Zennie62
08.10.10 at 7:02 PM | Comment count loading...
Flight delays, tight seats, rude and drunk passengers: The plight of the flight attendant
Yobie Benjamin
08.10.10 at 12:18 PM | Comment count loading...
Vietnam: When a smile can change everything
Yumi Wilson
08.10.10 at 12:10 PM | Comment count loading...
7 reasons why I am happy that I joined the Girl Scouts as CEO.
Marina Park
08.09.10 at 3:52 PM | Comment count loading...
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