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09/06/2010
Meg Whitman's plan to reduce fraud and abuse
Meg Whitman has done her best to distance herself from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, succeeding so well that her fellow Republican has declined to endorse a candidate in the governor's race. But they agree on at least one thing - California can dig itself out...
 
Meg Whitman - California - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Republican - Politics
09/06/2010
Democrat Jerry Brown to launch first TV ads
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown released his first TV commercial of the general election campaign Monday, making good on his promise to use Labor Day weekend as his starting point for the fall contest against Republican opponent Meg Whitman....
Meg Whitman - Jerry Brown - Republican Party - Labor Day - Television advertisement
09/06/2010
Son: Iran woman who faced stoning to be lashed
An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday. There was no official...
Iran - Stoning - Middle East - Adultery - Newspaper
09/06/2010
No body found in Pittsburg dump after 3 days
Three police officers and more than a dozen volunteers spent a third day combing through a Pittsburg landfill on Sunday, looking for the body of a man who may be the fifth victim in a killing spree last week. No body had been found when the 17 or so searchers...
Police officer - Spree killer - Police Misconduct - Crime and Justice - California Highway Patrol
09/06/2010
Economy blamed for drop in births
If it's true that sex is one of the best forms of free entertainment in a recession, the folks taking it to heart must be using protection - the nation's birthrate has dropped to what may be the lowest level ever. Many Bay Area hospitals reported fewer births...
United States - Birth rate - San Francisco Bay Area - Recession - California
09/06/2010
Obama calling for more infrastructure spending
President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering economy. The infrastructure spending is part...
Barack Obama - President - United States Congress - President of the United States - Infrastructure
09/05/2010
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface
Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. Engineers took 29 1/2 hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton blowout preventer from a mile beneath...
Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - Blowout preventer - Environment - Energy
09/06/2010
Foster City's Hillbarn Theatre gets bell back
Foster City has its bell back, but the mystery rings on. In a whodunit worthy of its own three-act play, a 300-pound antique bell, which vanished from a community theater in 2004, reappeared Friday just hours before opening night of the 70th season. The cast...
Theatre - Community theatre - Art - United States - Performing Arts
09/06/2010
Hassle in Haight over McDonald's menu change
What would seemingly be an issue of capitalism and supply and demand in any other city, or any other neighborhood in San Francisco, has instead morphed into another battle between merchants and the homeless in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood: The McDonald's...
San Francisco - Haight-Ashbury - McDonald - United States - California
09/06/2010
Open space deal sustains dairy farm forever
Robert Camozzi Jr. is a fourth-generation Petaluma farmer who, like many owners of agricultural land in California, was facing the ugly prospect of having to one day sell his heritage to developers. The thought of a business park or condominiums replacing the...
California - Agriculture - Dairy farming - Petaluma California - Dairy
09/06/2010
Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon
A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his...
Barack Obama - Richard Nixon - Republican - United States - President of the United States
09/06/2010
Sheer number, sour economy favor GOP in govs races
Never before have so many governorships been up for grabs _ and with so much at stake. The races come just ahead of once-in-a-decade congressional and legislative redistricting to reflect the U.S. population of the 2010 census, a process in which governors...
Republican - United States - Population - Redistricting - Democratic
09/06/2010
Labor Day news grim, but gloom may lift soon
It's been more than a century since President Grover Cleveland signed the law that made the first Monday in September a federal holiday for working stiffs, but this Labor Day finds Americans in an economic squeeze that leaves little to celebrate. About 15...
Labor Day - United States - Grover Cleveland - Holiday - History
09/06/2010
World markets rise as double-dip fears ease
World stock markets advanced modestly Monday as investors rode momentum from Friday, when an upbeat U.S. jobs report eased fears that the global economy could slip back into recession. With Wall Street closed for a holiday, however, trading was expected to...
Wall Street - Stock market - United States - Business - Investing
09/06/2010
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09/06/2010
Ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd may land at Oracle
Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is in talks to take a top executive position at Oracle Corp., the database software company run by his friend Larry Ellison, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions said Sunday. It wasn't immediately clear...
Mark Hurd - Larry Ellison - Hewlett-Packard - Oracle Corporation - Oracle
09/06/2010
U.S. tech firms shop abroad to avoid taxes
U.S. technology companies are in a bind. Much of their cash is parked abroad and they risk higher taxes if they bring profits from overseas back home. They have joined other U.S. businesses in lobbying for a tax holiday for repatriated earnings, and with no...
Business - United States - Technology - Company - Tax
09/06/2010
Privacy concerns grow with the use of RFID tags
Last month, a three-day summer camp in Israel brought Facebook to the real world. Using bracelets equipped with radio-frequency identification tags and programmed with their Facebook log-ins, teenagers could "Like" objects and activities by holding their arms...
Facebook - Israel - Radio-frequency identification - Social network - Coca-Cola
09/06/2010
CHRONICLE | CNET REVIEWS / Headphones with iPod controls
Klipsch Image S4i earphones Cnet rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 (outstanding) The good: Exceptional sound quality for the money; very comfortable; the package includes a few handy extras such as a storage box and cleaning tool. Plus, there's a call answer button,...
headphone - IPod - Klipsch Audio Technologies - Consumer electronics - Shopping
09/06/2010
Israeli FM pushes for new settlement construction
Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations. Avigdor Lieberman said the Israeli government must keep...
Israel - Middle East - Avigdor Lieberman - Politics of Israel - Mahmoud Abbas
09/06/2010
Livermore man arrested in stabbing of teenage son
A Livermore man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing his teenage son and wife with a fishing knife during a late-night argument. The Alameda County Sheriff's Department says 48-year-old Gary Gomez took his wife, 14-year-old son and his son's two friends...
Sheriff - Alameda County California - Livermore California - Law - California
09/06/2010
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09/04/2010
Nevada candidate touts speedy fix to budget crisis
One Nevada gubernatorial hopeful sees a speedy fix to Nevada's budget crisis. Nonpartisan candidate Eugene "Gino" DiSimone believes people would pay for the privilege to drive up to 90 mph on designated highways _ and fill the state's depleted coffers....
Nevada - United States - Budget crisis - Nonpartisan - Politics
09/04/2010
Revelers keep Abbots Bromley Horn Dance alive
Oh, deer! That's likely to be the reaction from hikers and picnickers in the Oakland hills Monday when they stumble across a herd of more than 100 humans trotting through the redwoods in deer antlers. No, the horned hordes have not become unhinged. They will...
Deer - Antler - Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - Hunting - Game
09/05/2010
Long-shot GOP candidate looks to unseat Pelosi
San Francisco resident John Dennis, 46, is the longest of long-shot candidates - a Republican trying to unseat Nancy Pelosi from her Eighth Congressional District seat in the November election. "This is my first campaign," Dennis said last week before leaving...
John Dennis - Nancy Pelosi - Republican - San Francisco - United States
09/05/2010
Supes' races to decide city's political future
The November election will mark the end of a profound political era in San Francisco that a decade ago gave rise to an insurgent group of newcomers that loosened then-Mayor Willie Brown's powerful grip at City Hall and tilted the legislative branch...
San Francisco - Willie Brown - California - United States - San Francisco Bay Area
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