AltWeeklies Wire
Road to Nowherenew
The FBI probes links between California state Senator Don Perata and a $40 million roadway project designed to enrich developer Ron Cowan.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon and Will Harper |
03-06-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Nice Nanostuff, But Is It Safe?new
With their futuristic industry out ahead of government regulators, some nanotech purveyors have concerns about their public image.
East Bay Express |
Eliza Strickland |
01-30-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: nano-tex
Losing LeRoynew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian missed its chance to break the best literary scandal in years.
East Bay Express |
Will Harper |
01-30-2006 |
Media
Identity Theftnew
As casino profits bring newfound wealth to Indian tribes, tribal leaders are finding excuses to disenroll more and more Indians like Eddie Vedolla and his family.
East Bay Express |
Eliza Strickland |
01-30-2006 |
Economy
Live, Fast, Die Oldnew
A growing body of evidence suggests that eating less -- way less -- could thwart disease and delay old age.
East Bay Express |
Kara Platoni |
01-23-2006 |
Science
Pandora's Boxnew
Can a company's musicological data mining breathe new life into the music industry?
East Bay Express |
Kara Platoni |
01-17-2006 |
Business & Labor
Ghost Townnew
Oakland's Fruitvale Village has been heralded as the future of transit-oriented 'smart-growth' development, but its retail establishments are struggling to attract customers.
East Bay Express |
Eliza Strickland |
01-09-2006 |
Housing & Development
Bouncing Backnew
Most of the 5,000 workers who were laid off when Oracle bought and killed PeopleSoft have landed on their feet and put the past behind them.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
01-09-2006 |
Business & Labor
Hit the Streets, Jacknew
Oakland's Men of Valor Academy, a last-chance program for parolees trying to turn their lives around, just closed after losing state funding.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
01-09-2006 |
Crime & Justice
You Made It, Now Sleep In Itnew
Tired of wrestling with bigger comforters and heavier mattresses, hotel housekeepers are protesting the comfy hotel bed.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
12-29-2005 |
Business & Labor
Target of Animal-Rights Activists Asks Court to Keep Them at Baynew
Pamelyn Ferdin, the child actor who did the voice of Peanuts' Lucy Van Pelt, is now president of a radical animal-rights group alleged to have participated in harassment and over-the-line protests.
East Bay Express |
Will Harper |
12-22-2005 |
Animal Issues
Tags: California, rights, van, animal, Chiron, cruelty, Emeryville, Ferdin, Huntingdon, Lucy, Pamelyn, peanuts, Pelt, Roche, Stop
Environmentalists Try to Free Fish Trapped in Reservoirsnew
Getting home is an uphill swim for the East Bay's steelhead trout, even without San Francisco's water agency and George W. Bush teamed up against them.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
12-12-2005 |
Environment
The Case Against Tenurenew
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to reform California's archaic and burdensome tenure rules for K-12 teachers was far from being too radical. It wasn't radical enough.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
12-12-2005 |
Education
Tags: No Child Left Behind, a longtime teacher and track coach at Thomas Olaeta Elementary School in Atwater, Albert G. Truitt Jr., California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, California Teachers Association, Michael E. Smith, partner of the Fresno-based law firm Lozano Smith, Union attorney John Kohn Attorney Thomas Driscoll
War on Avian Flu Threatens Free-Range Poultrynew
The surest way to keep birds from catching and spreading the disease, scientists say, is to keep them indoors. The battle over what that means for free-range poultry and cage-free eggs is beginning to roil.
East Bay Express |
Jonathan Kauffman |
12-08-2005 |
Animal Issues
Case of Condemned Gang Leader Becomes Death Penalty Lessonnew
Former Crips leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who was convicted of murdering four people, may be executed in December, but not before he's gained the sympathy of Oakland, Calif., schoolchildren.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
11-29-2005 |
Education
