British Intelligence Chief Accuses Facebook, Twitter Of Helping Terrorists
A British intelligence expert is calling out a handful of Silicon Valley tech companies, accusing them of helping terrorists.
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A British intelligence expert is calling out a handful of Silicon Valley tech companies, accusing them of helping terrorists.
In what may be a nod to her Burning Man constituents, the woman who appears to be Oakland's mayor-elect rode off from a victory speech Wednesday in a metallic, fire-spraying snail vehicle.
The developers behind Oakland's Brooklyn Basin project near Jack London Square say the major residential development of 3,100 new homes is starting to take shape.
A coalition of high school parents in the East Bay said they were shocked and upset to find out Planned Parenthood was teaching sex education classes to their children.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee helped box up carrots for the needy at the SF-Marin Food Bank as a part of #LoveLocalSF, a citywide event showing off businesses and attributes.
The Coca-Cola beverage company alone spent nearly $6 million.
One of the 15 candidates in the Oakland mayor's race, who gained some notoriety after he was featured in a TV segment by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, managed to glean a few hundred votes despite his views which include the Internet being a tool for masturbation and using horses as a form of alternative urban transportation.
From Flash Gordon, to Mayor Butt, Einstein, and even Jim Harbaugh, some unusual names popped up on Tuesday's ballot, and some of them won.
Voters in two California coastal counties approved a ban on fracking and other intensive oil production on Tuesday, while a third coastal county rejected such a ban.
San Francisco already has the highest minimum wage in the country but voters on Tuesday pushed it even higher. Now, low-wage earners in both San Francisco and Oakland will be getting raises.
Two out of three transportation measures on Tuesday's ballot in San Francisco appear to have been approved, according to complete unofficial election results.
Incumbent Tom Torlakson defeated first-time candidate Marshall Tuck in the hotly contested race for California's superintendent of public instruction, an election that became an expensive battleground with high stakes for teachers unions and education reformers.
In a closely watched East Bay State Assembly race, Republican Catherine Baker appears to have come out on top for the District 16 Assembly.
Soda drinkers in Berkeley will soon have to pay an extra cent per ounce to consume their sugary drinks as a majority of voters supported Measure D. It will become the nation's first tax on soda. Meanwhile, a similar soda-tax measure, Proposition E in San Francisco, failed to pass.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, with all precincts reporting, Liccardo took home 51 percent of the vote. But the race could be decided by absentee ballots turned in at the polls that will not be counted until later Wednesday and this week.
