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Dear editor, When it comes to growth in Napa County, things are changing fast. We are lucky that the cities have urban boundaries in their plans, and that the county has a limit on residential growth. That limit has been set at about 1 percent a year,...
Tags: Napa Pipe, Ginny Simms / Napa, Napa County, Napa Sanitation District, Napa, San Francisco Bay Area, Napa Valley AVA, Napa County California, Napa California, American Canyon California
11/17/2009 05:35:41 PM PST Today College men's basketball: Oral Roberts at Stanford, 7 p.m...JC women's basketball: Marin at Contra Costa, 4 p.m.; Mission at Las Positas, 6 p.m. JC women's volleyball: Yuba at Los Medanos, 6 p.m.; Cabrillo at Chabot,...
Tags: jc women, Canada, Toronto, San Francisco Bay Area, Ohlone
State budget cuts slashed her home health care services salary by more than half. And that's how Nanette Spencer found herself third in line last week at the Concord Salvation Army's Christmas Basket sign-up event. "I'm here so I can have a nice holiday,"...
Tags: Concord, San Francisco Bay Area, McCormick, East Bay, Alameda California, Concord California, Contra Costa County California, Gardner, Christmas kettle, The Salvation Army, Christianity in the United Kingdom, Protestantism, Social Issues, Religion Belief
A cool, dry air mass combined with light wind and clear skies will likely result in cold temperatures late tonight and early Monday morning. Temperatures in the coldest valleys are expected to drop near freezing for a few hours Monday morning around sunrise.
Tags: Bay Area Bay City, San Jose, Environment, San Francisco Bay Area, Weather
One always presumes a fair amount of communal thought in a state, even one this large. But apart from a shared disdain for the governor and the Legislature, there is hardly anything communal anymore in California politics. Political strategists these...
Tags: Californias, Los Angeles Times/USC, Central Valley, inland area, coastal voters, Los Angeles, San Bernardino County California, California, San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Inland Empire, Riverside County California
The Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit, which oversees a large swath of the Bay Area, plans to declare an end to the fire season Monday morning. This means that the agency will lower staffing levels in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, as well as...
Tags: fire season, cal fire, Morgan Hill, San Francisco Bay Area, Aerial firefighting, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Wildland fire suppression, Disaster Accident
The giant chip maker Intel, facing antitrust challenges around the world, announced on Thursday that it would pay $1.25 billion to settle its long-running disputes with its smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices. The settlement, covering both antitrust...
Tags: Intel Corp., More Business Intel, San Francisco Intel, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD, European Commission, business practice, bitter legal, rival advanced, smaller rival, Belgium, Brussels, Intel Corporation, General Motors, ATI Technologies, Ford Motor Company, Microprocessor, Semiconductor companies, Car manufacturers, Advanced Micro Devices, Business Finance, Paul Otellini, X86, AMD v. Intel, Intel 80386, Cyrix, Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, NeXT, Dell, Jon Leibowitz, United States antitrust law
San Francisco Bay area households spend up to two-thirds of their income on transportation and housing costs, a severe burden that leaves workers with insufficient resources for other basic needs, according to a recently-released study. The costs in the...
Tags: San Francisco Bay Area, household spends, basic needs, housing costs, area household, transport costs
Who says you can't take it with you? This doll sure appears to be reaching for the bag beside her in anticipation of moving from one family's home to another's, yard-sale style, in the great unregulated American marketplace that comes to life for a few...
Tags: Yard sales in America, Saturday morning yard sales, garage sales, Berkeley, San Francisco Bay Area, dolls, unregulated American marketplace, free markets, photography
If California farmers are to survive another dry year, they will need better water-transfer and delivery systems, state water officials said Wednesday as they met in Fresno. "The talking is over," said Al Montna, president of the State Board of Food and...
Tags: San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, California, water recycling, House