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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The pay of 200,000 California workers may be cut to the federal minimum wage to help balance the state budget, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.The newspaper said the wage cut to $6.55 per hour was part of a draft executive order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to issue next week. The state minimum wage is $8 per hour.The Republican governor also is expected to order a freeze on state...
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Ghost Word (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
When the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News were imploding a year ago, I wrote extensively about the layoffs and the damage the downsizing would do to local news coverage. Well, the newspaper business has only gotten worse since then, with draconian cuts at papers around the country almost a weekly occurrence. At some point I made the conscious decision not to follow the news on my...
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Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
from the San Francisco Chronicle A sort of "micro-piglet" scheme in Nepal. - Kale by Meredith May, Olga Murray of Sausalito had been volunteering for five years in Nepal, helping abandoned and disabled children get an education, when she read something in the newspaper that she couldn't believe. In the southern Dang district, rural Tharu farming families trapped in extreme poverty - earning less than...
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Special Education Law Blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The school systems in the San Francisco Bay Area lack a coherent approach to teaching children with autism according to Nanette Asimov, the education reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, she defines the problem in terms of the following: "For...
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The Local Onliner (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
To all the skeptics who thought that Zillow’s deal with newspapers would never roll out…..next week, The Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and Richmond Times Dispatch are selling featured listings for Zillow at the same time as they are placing their classifieds. More newspapers will be added each week. The participating newspaper [...]
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On Deadline (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
A San Francisco Chronicle carrier accidentally drove over two 15-year-old boys who fell asleep early this morning while star-gazing in the middle of their cul de sac, the newspaper reports. The unidentified driver said she did not see the teens...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
What is Nancy Pelosi contemplating ? In an interview with her hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, the California Democrat said she is prepared to "step in" if the presidential race does not resolve itself by the end of next month. "I will step in," Pelosi told the paper. "Because we cannot take this fight to the convention
It must be over before then. Step in and do what? At least this...
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
You may not want to click on the San Francisco Chronicle's web site. Your life savings, identity and first-born are at risk. At least that's what the newspaper is reporting is likely to happen when surfing the internet. We all assume certain risks using the...
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Obscure Store and Reading Room (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Yes, it is a slow news day. But I like the fact that a newspaper went through the effort of reviewing more than 60,000 pet licenses to do this story. Take that, Woodward and Bernstein! (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
San Francisco Chronicle John Diaz says "Citizen McCaw," a new documentary film, "is a cautionary tale, not only about the perils of a newspaper owner run amok, but of what can happen when one very wealthy and vindictive individual decides to use the legal system to inflict a living hell on mortals of lesser means."
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The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
With the exception of Dan Neil's work at the LA Times, newspaper car reviews are written to fill space between-- and suck-up to-- automotive advertisers. When I caught sight of Tom Keane's take on the new Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid in the San Francisco Chronicle, I decided to see if the paper that fired TTAC's founder for his infamous Subaru Tribeca B9 "flying vagina" review had any teeth left in its...
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Blowin' In The Wind (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
I was amused to see The Straits Times, Singapore's main newspaper, ran this picture (above) of the Olympic torch protest in San Francisco and not this (below, from the Guardian website) or this (from the San Francisco Chronicle website) Each...
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Daddy Types (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Let the record show that in the year 2008, the San Francisco Chronicle, the newspaper of record for the capital of galaxy [or at least The United Federation of Planets], decided that the best name for it's "big page...
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How Appealing (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
"Brothers file claim in S.F. zoo tiger attack": The San Francisco Chronicle provides this news update. The newspaper has posted a copy of the claim online at this link....
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How Appealing (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
"Mukasey backs Bush efforts on wiretapping": Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle. And today in The New York Sun, Josh Gerstein reports that "Mukasey Makes Emotional Plea for Surveillance Powers." The newspaper also contains an...
