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Headlines & Global NewsGoogle Barge is reportedly on a move to set up a new home in Stockton, after the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission issued notice to expedite work or shift elsewhere. Google’s mysterious floating Barge created a lot of buzz …Google barge has civic leaders atwitterStockton RecordGoogle Barge to Sail to […]
CBSSports.comWhen this brainstorming happens, one location seems to always inevitably enter the conversation: San Francisco’s AT&T Park. The tenants of that beautiful ballpark on the San Francisco Bay, MLB’s Giants, share the same dream. According to Giants Extra, …San Francisco Giants willing to share AT&T Park with Oakland A’sSan Jose Mercury NewsSF Giants president Larry […]
MyFox Los AngelesThe weather system moved down from Northern California, bringing up to an inch of rain in drought-stricken coastal and valley areas of Los Angeles County, and more in the mountains. About an inch of rain fell earlier around the San Francisco Bay Area.First of two storms hits Los Angeles, residents prepare for soaking […]
Google Barge Headed To Port Of StocktonCBS LocalEarlier this year, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) had ruled the floating showroom is in violation of local permit rules and must be removed from its Treasure Island spot or face fines. BCDC executive director Larry … and more …read more Source: San Francisco […]
CBS LocalPLEASANT HILL (CBS SF) – BART officials are saying that repairs to a damaged train, track and third rail following a derailment at the Concord BART station Friday evening are likely to continue through Saturday night. Train service past Pleasant Hill …San Francisco Bay Area commuter train derailsSacramento BeeBART train derails near Concord StationSan […]
CBS LocalPORTLAND, Ore. (CBS SF) — A violent fugitive from Montana spotted in several Bay Area cities last week was captured Friday night in Portland, Ore., an FBI spokesman said. Kevin Anthony Briggs, who was wanted for alleged assaults on a woman and a …Montana fugitive spotted in San Francisco Bay AreaKPAX-TVKevin Anthony Briggs: Violent […]
San Francisco radio station cuts off USA-Russia overtime for golf showCBSSports.comFans in the San Francisco Bay Area that couldn’t get to a TV had KNBR-AM to rely on to follow the action of Saturday’s thrilling win for the U.S. hockey team over Russia at the 2014 Olympics. That was until overtime caused the game to […]
Is Tech Money Good For San Francisco’s Middle-Class? An Economist’s …TechCrunchThe liberal wonderland of the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the highest concentration of wealth in the country. Twitter’s IPO, alone, created an estimated 1,600 millionaires. But, are local residents catching any of the dollar bills being shaken … …read more Source: San […]
Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner are the USA Olympics Figure Skaters who have taken America (and the World outside Russia) by storm. So much so, that this blogger had to ask how they would look in Glo-Blades! What are Glo-Blades? Glo-Blades are an amazing invention and skating product by Ralph Haney and his son Steven […]
The Golden State Warriors New Arena Plan for San Francisco’s Pier 32 is dying and will effectively go the way of the DoDo by 2015. If you recall, this blogger went over to the party announced for the project in May of 2012, and asked if the owners were prepared to be sued by the […]
KTVU San FranciscoThe next America’s Cup could be sailed off a Hawaiian beach, on San Diego Bay or in some other port instead of returning to a San Francisco Bay course bordered by the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. Russell Coutts, the CEO of America’s Cup …S.F. losing ground in race to host America’s […]
Ars TechnicaOAKLAND, CALIFORNIA—For the last month, 40 mysterious billboards have popped up in seemingly random locations around the San Francisco Bay Area. “The revolution has started… Where do you stand?” they read. They’re accompanied by a Bitcoin … …read more Source: San Francisco News By Google
Nicki Minaj Not Hotter Than Megan Avalon Nicki Minaj Not Hotter Than Megan Avalon Nicki Minaj Not Hotter Than Megan Avalon http://ift.tt/1aFQ5CM Look, Nicki Minaj is hot, but not hotter than Megan Avalon. Megan Avalon is my friend who’s a personal trainer and female bodybuilder based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s the perfect […]
4 Rescued From Chilly San Francisco BayCBS LocalSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Four people have been pulled from chilly San Francisco Bay after a woman fell into the water and three others jumped in to save her. KGO-TV reports the woman was taking pictures from a pier with views of the Golden Gate Bridge …Good Samaritans […]
4 rescued from chilly San Francisco BaySacramento BeeSAN FRANCISCO — Four people have been pulled from chilly San Francisco Bay after a woman fell into the water and three others jumped in to save her. KGO-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1baLYhZ ) the woman was taking pictures from a pier with views of the …Good Samaritans save tourist […]
Oakland airport rail link to debut in fall 2014USA TODAYOakland International Airport’s direct link to the San Francisco Bay area’s BART rail system will be completed next fall, transit agency officials say. “It could be early fall; it could be late fall,” Jim Allison, a BART spokesman, says to the San … and more …read […]
USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit officials and labor union leaders announced a new deal early Saturday, saying the final issue in their ongoing dispute has been resolved. The transit system and its two largest unions have …San Francisco Bay Area transit system and labor unions reach deal, resolve …Washington […]
KQED (blog)Update 11:50 a.m.: It turns out there were two incidents this morning in Oakland involving Google buses in addition to a protest involving an Apple bus in San Francisco. In Oakland, one bus was stopped briefly at the MacArthur BART station. The second …In SF and Oakland, activists block tech buses to protest displacementSan […]
Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) Executive Director who has so skillfully directed the construction of the $4 billion Transbay Transit Center Project for The San Francisco Bay Area, has been honored with being inducted into Lambda Alpha International Honorary Society for the Advancement of Land Economics at its Annual Initiation Dinner. Ms. […]
Minneapolis Star TribuneFour homeless people have died of hypothermia in the San Francisco Bay Area since last week, authorities said, highlighting the danger to people without shelter as the region is gripped by freezing temperatures. Santa Clara County sheriff’s Lt. Dave …Bitter cold kills at least 4 in South BaySan Francisco Chronicle4 Homeless People Die […]
Nelson Mandela When Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in South Africa in 1990, he went on a United States “Thank You” Tour that included Oakland, California. You have to understand that, at that time I was just about three years out of grad school at UC Berkeley. And when I was there, protests against […]
Ron Conway, the famed tech investor and co-founder of Y-Combinator, started SF CiTi with the original objective of marshalling the San Francisco and San Francisco Bay Area Tech Community to move the political needle on legislation of interest to it. At first, membership was free, with events being paid for by sponsors. But now, Ron’s […]
The Transbay Transit Center held a first-of-its-kind outreach event on Thursday of last week, when it invited LGBT-ran business representatives to a mixer at its headquarters in San Francisco. Generally, an large public works organization like the Transbay Transit Center will have women and minority-focused events to make sure firms ran by women and minorities […]
Oakland’s Michael A. LeNoir, M.D., a well-known practicing Pediatrician and Allergist in the San Francisco Bay Area, was installed as the 114th president of the National Medical Association during the organization’s 111th Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly in Toronto, Canada. The National Medical Association promotes the collective interests of over 32,000 physicians of African descent […]
The Drake’s Bay issue is one I’ve largely ignored, but after meeting Kevin Lunny on my own, as I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and then trying to look at the situation from both sides, it’s hard not to side with Kevin’s little company. It’s the perfect David versus Goliath story, and it’s […]
The BART Strike that has impacted the travel and commute patterns throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and especially from the East Bay to the West Bay, is over. BART released the following statement from General Manager Grace Crunican: “I am happy to announce the BART system will be open and fully operational at 3pm […]
UPDATE: More Godzilla San Francisco Set Information Revealed! UPDATE VIDEO: Godzilla is still being filmed in Surrey, BC, and while that outdoor work is going on, there’s a photo from an indoor set that’s getting a lot of buzz, and another that was virtually ignored by the media, but gives the biggest clue yet to […]
The NFL Owners meet Tuesday at the Hyatt Harborside in Boston to conduct league business, including voting to determine which city hosts the 50th and 51st Super Bowl, or Super Bowl L and LI. (Follow Zennie62 on Twitter to keep track of what’s happening as I will be there.) The San Francisco Bay Area Super […]
The San Francisco 49ers and team President and CEO Jed York have scored a $220 million naming rights deal that’s the first one in the San Francisco Bay Area to actually reflect the true value of such partnerships in the region. According to The San Francisco 49ers, Levi Strauss & Co. plans to present to […]
Jason Collins came out as gay in a well-presented column released in Sports Illustrated today. This blogger’s initial reaction was “so what?” Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area makes one take what is an earth-shaking revelation to others, with a “Right on,” and “That’s cool,” reaction. But what went through my mind and […]
That Reese Witherspoon, Al Michaels, and Ms. Witherspoon’s hubby CAA agent James Toth got DUIs within this weekend is news only because of two things: their celebrity status, and how they handled getting the “driving while intoxicated” citation and arrest. Al Michaels, that legendary touchstone of American Culture, who made the famous “Folks, I think […]
Heyo’s a young Blacksburgh, VA company that makes a platform that allows you make a Facebook page, and also a Facebook page-related mobile app. Trouble is, they ask you to pay for the service. But considering that their clients are companies like NBC, that’s both a good thing, and a bad thing. Heyo, formerly known […]
While some “experts” reminded us that the Earth is hit by asteroids once every 2,000 years, the fact is that our planet was both hit and closely visited by two cosmic objects within 24 hours. One of them, 2012 DA14, came to within 17,000 miles of the Earth’s surface. The other, a meteor that’s called […]
Fitness SF, which was once called Gold’s Gym of the San Francisco Bay Area, and of which this vlogger has been a long-time member of it’s Oakland facility, has suffered from the actions of an irate web developer by the name of Frank Jonen. Claiming unpaid invoices, Mr. Jonen has taken to altering the FitnessSF […]