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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Super Bowl XLVII may come down to dress. In the tradition of the game, the team that comes dressed for business wins. But the catch is, most of the time, both opponents have arrived wearing…
All 70-year-old Paula Uccelli wants to do is get out of the business of running a harbor her late husband established and called Pete’s Harbor. She and Pete Uccelli ran the harbor for 60 years…
The Pete’s Harbor controversy’s heating up. Here’s the latest news on the dispute between the legendary harbor, its tenants, and the State of California. More commentary will come, but these are the latest press releases:…
Redwood City, CA – Construction has started on a new pedestrian bridge that will allow public access to the Inner Bair Island and trail. Supportive neighbor, Pete’s Harbor, moved an outer harbor dock to facilitate…
After some years in this business and two companies Sports Business Simulations and Zennie62Media (as well as involvement in another tech startup called Bartabber and another called MyPartnerInCrime.com), I realized I have more than a…
Sonny Dykes arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and enroute to Berkeley for his meetings with Cal Athletic Director Sandy Barbour and Cal Football Players; the press conference introducing Sonny Dykes as Cal’s new…
According to ESPN Wisconsin, Aaron Rogers, who left Cal-Berkeley for the 2005 NFL Draft and The Green Bay Packers, and was the second example of Cal’s now former Head Coach’s Jeff Tedford’s ability to successfully…
Ok, now that Election 2012 is history, it’s time to pick out our winners and losers. Some of them will be unexpected people you’ve never heard of, others will be characters, of several kinds. It…
WonderCon, the large comic book convention that started in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been in Oakland at the Oakland Convention Center since 1987 to 2002, then at the Moscone Center to 2011….
U.S. President Barack Obama’s visiting the San Francisco Bay Area October 8th for a reception and concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at 5:30 PM. Here’s the link for tickets and the video:
Keywords: Zazzle, Bay To Breakers, San Francisco, Charity, Angela Fang, SF, Zennie62, Zennie Abraham The 101th running of the Zazzle Bay to Breakers was declared a success by race organizers as it entered its second…
Over the past five years, Oakland, California, this blogger’s home, has developed (and this is strictly by observation) a new populations of people, the majority of which are white, that has started to transform Oakland…
Yesterday, an explosion of some kind rocked the Chevron Richmond Refinery, sending giant plumes of smoke miles into the air, and that could be seen from almost all parts of the San Francisco Bay Area….
A Wednesday 4th Of July is just plain weird, mostly because the entire day caught me totally by surprise. Yes, this happens once every seven years, but that’s just long enough to recall the last…
The Oakland Army Base Project – the long-dreamed of plan to redevelop a long-dead 366-acre land assembly that was once the home of the U.S. Army for the San Francisco Bay Area, and the focus…
Yesterday, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg put out a blog post announcing that his company spent $1 billion to acquire Instagram, the popular smartphone-based photo-sharing service. Moreover, the organization made even more famous in…
Stanford Quarterback Andrew Luck had an outstanding Pro Day down on The Farm, as he threw 50 passes, completing 46 of them and in conditions that were less than perfect, to say the least. But…
Regular followers of my blog will remember my constant criticisms of The Bay Citizen, the online news organization that started with a $5 million investment from the now sadly passed on Warren Hellman. Now, after…
Ever wonder what a hard-core fitness workout looks like? If so, you’ve come to the right place. In this 21 minute video, you are taken through a fitness workout session with my friend Kortney Olson,…
Sears, facing a drop in sales, announced last December it was planning to close 100 to 120 stores. The local media assumed Oakland, Ca would be one of them, and so danced over Oakland’s grave….
The reports are all over that Major League Baseball’s long-delayed report on the Oakland A’s in Oakland, and if they should be given permission to leave Oakland for San Jose, will be released “soon,” and…
For some reason Mashable, the blog about social networking and digital trends, fired it’s Editor-At-Large Ben Parr. So ends a rather long run for a young man who’s star was rising in the tech news…
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee will join the U.S. Department of Health Services Assistant Secretary For Heath and Human Services Dr. Howard Koh today for a press conference to talk about a comprehensive national plan…
Larry Beil of KGO-TV ABC Channel 7 has an anti=Hope Solo bias this blogger had to challenge. The daily anchor of several news programs on the local affiliate, Beil has a weekly ‘Dancing With The…
At first this blogger was just going to leave the whole issue of TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington’s statement that he “Didn’t know any black entrepreneurs” alone at one blog post. But after a series of…
