Tuesday, December 8, 2009 : I met some of you for the first time in December 2004 at a rally with United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, when she joined your call for St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) to negotiate ground rules for a free and fair election process. For the next four years, as an SEIU international organizer, I worked with you to build a powerful campaign that, by the fall of...
Health care reform hangs in the balance. Its fate rests with a handful of “centrist” senators — senators who claim to be mainly worried about whether the proposed legislation is fiscally responsible. But if they’re really concerned with ...
A FULL field of 16 runners will face the starter in today’s 1,350-metre NFM St Ann’s Stakes, final Graded event of the 2009 season for West Indian-bred two-year-old fillies, at Santa Rosa Park, Arima.
COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENTS Here's a reminder that some people have profited from the Atlantic Yards project without Bruce Ratner having sold a single bond. The Accountable Development Coalition (ADC), which negotiated the recent Sonoma Mountain Village CBA, is coming under more fire. It seems that the SMART rail district, a quasi-public entity, is requiring developers of the New Railroad Square...
COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENTS Here's a reminder that some people have profited from the Atlantic Yards project without Bruce Ratner having sold a single bond. The Accountable Development Coalition (ADC), which negotiated the recent Sonoma Mountain Village CBA, is coming under more fire. It seems that the SMART rail district, a quasi-public entity, is requiring developers of the New Railroad Square...
From a very early age I was a fan of the Peanuts comic strip. For Birthdays and Christmas, or whenever I had some extra money, I would often pick up Peanuts books ( which I still have today ). I've seen a number of those books, in worse condition than the ones I have, at the Charles M. Schulz museum in Santa Rosa, CA. I'd almost like to loan them mine so they'd have decent copies on display....
19-year-old Santa Rosa songwriter Ryan Schmale's solo low-fidelity jams under the That Ghost moniker have preceded the recent wavves of like-minded Cali dudes by a few minutes, most recently heard on the "Never Have Fun" b/w "Your Backs" 7", earlier on the two-tempo Pollard-tipping "Shouldn't Leave The Estate" which dropped from his seven-song set Get It And...
December 7, 2009 SANTA ROSA, Calif.,-- Thermal Technology recently expanded its on-site materials process laboratory in Santa Rosa, California. The lab serves both existing and potential customers through process development and verification, toll processing and pilot production. Skilled technical staff assist users in the advancement of efficient and reliable processes for high temperature...
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Medtronics Inc. names Martin Rothman vice president of medical affairs for its coronary and peripheral vascular business. Medtronic_100.jpg Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) tapped veteran British interventional cardiologist Martin Rothman to lead a portion of its vascular business. The Minneapolis medical device monolith said Rothman will be vice president of medical affairs for its Santa Rosa, Calif.-based...
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), today announced the hire of Prof. Martin Rothman as vice president of medical affairs for the company’s coronary and peripheral vascular business based in Santa Rosa, Calif. Prof. Rothman will join Medtronic on Jan. 4, 2009, after 37 years of clinical practice in the U.K. as an interventional cardiologist, including 27 years at...
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If forced to choose between hospital employees being represented by a union other than SEIU, and siding with management . . . well, you already know the answer , don't you? SEIU, whose mission includes the unionization of hospital workers, is now waging a full-scale campaign to prevent over 600 workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital from joining NUHW, a rival union. SEIU’s effort follows...
REWARDSINHEAVEN, who equalled the 1,000-metre track record held by Luca’s Gold on his debut run, was sharpened ahead of Saturday’s 1,200-metre  Juvenile Sprint with a bullet 48.24 over 800 metres with rider Sheldon Rodrigo pushing out the colt on the wet/fast Santa Rosa Park, Arima main track, yesterday.      Â...
***[Excerpt from Christmas Tree Lane Association] In 1885, real estate magnate John P. Woodbury of the Woodbury Family, the founders of Altadena - planted 134 deodar trees (Cedrus deodara) as a grand mile-long driveway entrance to the mansion he would build. Woodbury’s mansion was never built, but the trees thrived and the “driveway” became Santa Rosa Avenue. In 1920, Altadena resident and department...