That Little Town Next to Berkeley Speaks Out on the 2007 Farm Bill
BERKELEY—Emeryville, California, a Bay Area town with more chain retail stores than its 7,000 residents can support—and no farmer’s market—has big plans for the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill. The city passed a...
View ArticleWhole Foods Gives New Life to Neglected, Historic Building
OAKLAND—The city’s first Whole Foods opened its doors this morning, eliciting praise from residents for providing high-end food while restoring a long-neglected downtown landmark. An African choir...
View ArticleGreen Industry Renews Oakland Economy
OAKLAND–A quiet spring of funds are being diverted to Oakland and other California cities thanks to the energy crises of 2000 and 2001. Few will forget the lawsuits brought by the state of California...
View ArticleStriking Workers Take Fight to Oakland City Council
Every morning for eight years, 44-year old Maria Luisa Contreras would take her place at a sewing machine to stitch name tags and logos on the uniforms of Oakland city workers and others. Last month,...
View ArticleCastro Businesses Looking to Party on Halloween
SAN FRANCISCO – Not all merchants in the Castro are taking the city’s advice to shut down this Halloween. Angel Castro, 19, who works at Lime Bar and Restaurant on Market Street between 15th and Noe...
View ArticleStriking Nurses Locked-Out
OAKLAND–Nurses were locked-out of work today at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland. After a two-day strike, hospital security guards refused to let the unionized nurses return to work en...
View ArticleJDSU CFO Denies Wrongdoing in Rare Class-Action Fraud Case
OAKLAND–JDS Uniphase Corporation’s former chief financial officer told an Oakland jury today that he never reviewed the cash flow of companies for which JDSU paid top dollar during the dot com boom....
View ArticleAn International Marketplace
BERKELEY — For Shahid Salimi, living the American dream has its trade-offs. The halal market his father started when “there was no goat meat around” in 1979 has been a success. Indus Valley now has a...
View ArticleCompetition and Optimism for Sari Shop Owners
BERKELEY–On a sunny and crisp fall afternoon, Sam Azam sprayed glass cleaner on the doors and windows of a shop on University Avenue in Berkeley. His wife, Perveen, organized glittering pink, red, and...
View ArticleAuto Show Fans Going Green
SAN FRANCISCO — This year Debbie Yates came from her home in San Rafael to San Francisco’s 50th annual auto show because she heard there were more green cars than ever before. “The good part of me...
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