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GM adds 842000 vehicles to ignition switch recallHonolulu Star-AdvertiserDETROIT >> General Motors on Tuesday doubled to 1.6 million the number of small cars it is recalling to fix faulty ignition switches linked to multiple fatal crashes. Just two weeks ago, GM announced the recall of more than 780,000 Chevrolet Cobalts … and more …read more […]
Los Angeles TimesIn a rare public apology, General Motors acknowledged Tuesday that it may have reacted too slowly to a safety issue linked to 13 deaths. The delayed response could potentially cost GM tens of millions of dollars in civil penalties if the National Highway Traffic …GM adds four models to recall, doubles deaths to […]
Column 1: State of the City, Olympics & OaklandMartinez News-GazetteTHANK YOU, Mr. Mayor, for a terrific State of the City message delivered at the breakfast. I was not able to be there, but the full text in the Gazette made for educational and pleasant reading. I don’t recall the full text ever being printed before. […]
SportingNews.comAt 6-5 and 266 pounds, Clowney will surely prove to be one of the fastest linemen at the Combine. It’s his speed that has allowed him to blow by offensive tackles en route to the quarterback. He was often double- and triple-teamed this year and his …2014 NFL combine: Dee Ford on Jadeveon Clowney: ‘I’m […]
CBSSports.comWhile the buzz in Indianapolis remains centered on Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel and Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, the best player in the 2014 draft — South Carolina pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney — began his assault on their limelight …Jadeveon Clowney at NFL Combine: ‘I want to be the greatest of all time’SportingNews.com2014 NFL […]
Boston GlobeIt is a bonus for baseball fans that Derek Jeter’s final season as a New York Yankee will be one that Alex Rodriguez spends in baseball banishment. Jeter will be feted in 2014, A-Rod will be forgotten. It would have been indecorous and incongruous to see …Filling hole at shortstop to be costly for […]
New York Daily NewsIn so many ways, there has not been a Yankee who mattered more to the Yankees than Derek Jeter, not since Babe Ruth. This does not make Jeter bigger than Ruth in either baseball talent, or accomplishments. It does not make him a better player than the …Prices soar on Derek Jeter […]
Jeff Orr Says He Called Marcus Smart “Piece Of Crap” Nothing Racial Marcus Smart, the Oklahoma State star basketball player who shoved Jeff Orr, a fan in the stands near by, was reportedly told to ‘Go back to Africa’ by so-called Texas Tech “Superfan” Orr, leading to Smart’s outburst and push at the Ok State, […]
Cléver Jiménez , in a shocking story from Plan V, says that Ecuador President Rafael Correa wants to kill him. If you recall, Cléver Jiménez is an elected official in Ecuador who was accused of, among other actions, giving his emails regarding the Ecuador lawsuit against Chevron to Chevron. To recap. this is what I […]
USA TODAYDETROIT — Tesla Motors said today that it expects its fourth-quarter sales to come in 20% over its previous guidance, but executives here at the North American International Auto Show were hazy about when asked about deliveries of the electric car …Tesla to recall overheating chargersCNNMoneyTesla Plans to Add Charging Network in ChinaWall Street […]
USA TODAYGeneral Motors is recalling 303,000 of its new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks in the U.S. to reprogram software to prevent them from catching on fire. So far, eight fires have been reported and no injuries. The recall covers …GM Recalls Pickups Over Software ProblemsWall Street JournalGM recalling 370000 trucks […]
ABC NewsThe United States said Friday it was withdrawing a diplomat from India in hopes it would end a bitter dispute that started with the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York. Washington’s announcement that it was complying with a demand from …As Devyani Khobragade returns, India asks US to recall […]
BBC SportNewcastle Falcons recall Warren Fury at scrum-half and bring in Jamie Helleur and James Fitzpatrick at centre. The only other change from the side that were brushed aside 16-3 by Exeter sees Will Welch named in the back row. London Wasps head coach … and more …read more Source: London News From Google
USA TODAYJOHANNESBURG — For all his years of struggle, imprisonment and political leadership, it was Nelson Mandela’s capacity to embrace his former oppressors without bitterness in order to achieve a multiracial national reconciliation that stands out as his most …South Africa to Ensure ‘Successful’ Mandela Memorial ServiceVoice of AmericaObama to recall Mandela as personal and […]
Ruoyang Wang is not a celebrity, not someone this blogger knows, not anyone who you’ve heard of. But to his parents in China, Ruoyang Wang was their son. Their promise. Their hope for the future. And their dream come true. Their son, Ruoyang Wang, was a Berkeley student. Ruoyang Wang died in a car accident […]
The New Parkway Oakland at 474 24th Avenue in the Uptown District, is something to see. It’s kind of tucked way in a warehouse that’s much larger than it looks, and is just around the corner from a corner cafe on Broadway and 24th that has been several different businesses over the years. The hosts […]
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has a terrible habit of operating the Office Of The Mayor Of Oakland as if it’s Mayberry RFD: a small town where she drives herself around, or has her husband Dr. Floyd Huen do it. All of that would be fine for a town of 5,000 people, but Oakland is not […]
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are an American pop-culture phenomenon. The squad, started by sports marketing legend and Cowboys General Manager of lore Tex Schramm, has produced two generations of models who have gone on to fame, and in a few cases fortune. Now, the 2013 version of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is being formed and […]
Amanda Bynes latest plot for attention, posting topless photos of herself on Twitter, is far less extreme than any of her actions in 2012. Consider, that in 2012, last year, Ms. Bynes got arrested, charged with a DUI, and then was out of jail in April, and then by September had reportedly checked into rehab. […]
Coldwater, the movie that was the result of the production and directoral effort of Vincent Grashaw, made its debut at South-By-Southwest Festival in Austin tonight. In fact, as this blog post is typed, the movie’s just starting. If you, as a regular viewer, recall, this blogger interviewed Mr. Grashaw last June 2012. He and I […]
“Dear TMZ” goes the top Twitter Trend for today (one of them) because TMZ has said there are photos that have Justin Bieber and Lil Za, and Lil Twist with codine and Sizzup. But they don’t show the photos asserting that claim. Big error. Oh and if you recall, I met Lil Twist at CES, […]
The NFL has released the Super Bowl XLVII injury report from Wednesday, and it has a few surprises with Niners Linebacker Ahmad Brooks and Aldon Smith seeing limited action in practice due to a shoulder problem. If you recall, this blogger interviewed Smith at the 2011 NFL Draft: Here’s the rest from the NFL BALTIMORE […]
WOW! This is great news. If you recall from a past post, City Slicker Farms, one of Oakland’s great non-profits, is having a ground breaking of its planned and now underway West Oakland Urban Farm and Park. Here’s the advisory that was sent: Groundbreaking Ceremony for Innovative West Oakland Urban Farm and Park 1.4 Acre […]
Julie Buehler, who readers may recall has the radio show Buehler’s Day Off at KXPS 1010 Palm Springs, CA, and where I co-hosted the show last July 2nd, is in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII, where her show’s part of radio row. Julie posted the YouTube video above and that gives you a great […]
An update in the news about what’s called the Excalibur murder-suicide of Vegas.com’s Jessica Kenny via the gun of Eddie Brandt last Friday at the registration desk of the hotel-casino. According to KNTV Las Vegas, Jessica Kenny may have moved to Vegas to get away from Eddie Brandt. She had not talked to him in […]
Robert Griffin III is not only impressive on the field, as Quarterback for The Washington Redskins, he’s equally impressive off of it. Bascially RG3 is a smart, emotionally balanced, disciplined young man with a wicked sense of humor. And frankly, he’s part of a new generation of African American college football players who are entering […]
When last we checked, Stephanie Thorpe had just secured the rights to develop new versions of the modern classic ElfQuest. If you recall, I met Ms. Thorpe at this year’s Comic Con: But Stephanie, proving that she’s one of the most dangerous Comic Con women, does not sit still. Here’s a quick update from her […]
Ross Mirkarimi has dodged a bullet this week, since legendary Retired Navy Cmdr. Zoe Dunning (pictured), anti-DADT Activist, and Green Bay Packers Fan who won a seat on the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee (DCC), pulled her resolution to start a recall effort to remove the Sheriff from his position. According to the San Francisco […]
If you remember or have recently seen the 1994 hit movie Forest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, you certainly recall the man named “Bubba.” Forest Gump’s Vietnam War sidekick, and later business partner back home in America, was played by Mykelti Williamson. I had the pleasure of meeting actor and director Mykelti Williamson at the Night […]
Video streaming by Ustream Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook Founder and CEO who’s had a roller coster five years, was the featured interview target of TechCrunch Founder and CEO, now “Uncrunched” blogger and head of CrunchFund, Michael Arrington on Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012. It was the first interview Zuckerberg gave since the Initial Public […]
Charlie Sheen’s Twitter account, @CharlieSheen which this blogger reported as up-and-running again six hours ago, and after being closed since June, was at just over 4 million followers – now a refresh of the page reveals just 105 followers, which means Sheen’s lost a ton of them in the deactivation and has to play catch-up. […]
The San Francisco Herb & Natural Food Company, a firm that creates herb products, is embroiled in an unfortunate situation that’s caused it to recall its food products. On July 26th, a voluntary recall of 16 specific lots of San Francisco Herb products was done by the firm, and due to the potential contamination of […]
The Oakland Army Base Project has a new enemy: Gene Hazzard. Yes, the same Gene Hazzard who designed the initial effort to recall Oakland Mayor Jean Quan that fizzled under a wave of what makes Oakland tick: jealously and insecurity. And encapsulated within Gene’s objective of taking down the Army Base Project is a total […]
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 time, in 2005, my life was complicated by both of my fathers, real and step, and my Mom, all battling […]
Here’s the video – a classic: For the record, Larry Reid is the President Of The Oakland City Council and after his initial reaction to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s claim that she backed the Oakland curfew plan, explaining that she was in the same public safety committee that he was on and as Mayor took […]