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Climate change Environmentalists question whether Gov. Jerry Browns actions match his rhetoric
MOUNTAIN VIEW -- The world is fast approaching a tipping point after which the damage caused by climate change can't be undone, Gov. Jerry Brown told a technology summit Thursday."Five years from now, it's over," unless we change our ways sooner, he said.Some environmentalists, however, say Brown's actions don't match his rhetoric -- particularly his recent decision ...
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Covered California to pay $12M for ad agency and PR over two years
Weber Shandwick $12 million over two years to market the exchange, which will offer insurance to uninsured Californians and small businesses. The contract with Weber Shandwick goes through April 2015, officials said late Friday, just as the Memorial Day weekend got into full swing. Covered California is also retaining Ogilvy Public Relations for media relations and community outreach work. ...
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Nearly two dozen East Bay schools get top marks
SACRAMENTO -- Nearly two dozen public schools in the East Bay ranked high compared with similar schools statewide, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education, while 52 schools were ranked at the bottom of the list. The latest round of public school rankings are based on how well students performed on standardized tests they took more than a year ago. Schools are ...
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Craig Dahl Focuses On Progress
pass on the second day of OTAs, but was unable to haul in the takeaway during a 7-on-7 period in the red zone. Even so, Dahl read the 49ers starting quarterback and broke perfectly on a pass intended for tight ...
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Sidecar gets CPUC approval for ridesharing
Sunil Paul, CEO of Sidecar, got some good news this week, as the CPUC has reportedly allowed the ridesharing service to continue operations in the ...
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Celebrity
In Woody Allen's "Celebrity," the center of modern cultural decay is filled with the famous and infamous, and they come in all shapes and sizes: actors and actresses, producers, directors, plastic surgeons, weathermen, supermodels, critics, hostages, authors, agents, and even the celebrated dregs of society like hookers, skinheads, and Ku Klux Klan members who are watched daily on talk shows by mi ... ...
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In tonights skies Supermoon rare planetary lineup
The holiday weekend and unofficial start of summer will kick off Friday night with some good skywatching: a closer-than-usual full moon, and rare a planetary cluster. Because it's within a day of lunar perigee - the moon's closest point to Earth for the month - the moon will be about 17,000 miles closer than average. That qualifies it as a "supermoon." Rising at 8:09 p.m. ...
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Food trends from the NRA
The NRA (calm down, I'm talking about the Nation's Restaurant Association) recently held its big show in Chicago, where more than 2,000 companies representing more than 900 product categories showed up to showcase what they've got cooking. During this conference, lots of ...
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Mid-Market mystery building ready for housing
Raintree Partners has cracked the code on Mid-Market's most mysterious building. The developer is converting the Wilson Building, the seven-story structure at 973 Market St., into 65 apartments. The building stands on a block of Market Street that is undergoing radical transformation, with a Gensler-designed Market Street Place under construction next door. But it turns out that the ...
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Robots rise sneak preview of 18 clever ones
Keller Rinaudo, co-founder and CEO of Romotive, which launched in August of 2011 and has raised $6.5 million, says his goal is big: to take robots out of the ivory tower and introduce them into people's homes ...
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Silicon Valley Scoops 49ers COO three big deals exclusive video Video
Big week for scoops and exclusives. Super Bowl L is coming to town! We measure our newsroom by how many exclusive stories we deliver. Thats a high bar that gets higher when a huge event like the Super Bowl lands in a newsrooms backyard. This week we told our readers what landing the Super Bowl in 2016 means to Silicon Valley faster and with greater breadth and depth than the competition. Our ...