Beer: The Beverage of the People
An Oakland-based beer tasting shop used the Bay Area's Beer Week festival as an opportunity to highlight women's contribution to beer culture.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Shoes
Barefoot running: is this trend only for the serious runner, or is this an opportunity for the rest of us to kick our Nikes to the corner?
Good Night, Sleep Tight…well, you know the rest.
These little buggers can create a BIG problem, one that's seen a resurgence in San Francisco. See what one company is doing about it.
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Using grant money, program tries to recreate benefits of wealth
An ambitious program designed to alter the future of thousands of residents of Hayward’s most vulnerable neighborhood has had its official launch after nearly a year of implementation. If it is successful, the program’s reach could spread to other communities across the country. The Hayward Promise Neighborhood is an initiative billed as attempt to break [...]
Fight over soda tax continues in Richmond
A heated debate continues in Richmond over a controversial soda tax that voters will decide on in the November election. The measure has drawn national attention and the American Beverage Association has spent millions of dollars to defeat the measure. “We’re going to be able to do something that no one else in the country [...]
Preparations for reform may leave lasting changes
Federal health care reform might not survive after a Supreme Court decision expected this week, but the preparations for an influx of new patients may have already changed the health care system. The Affordable Care Act allows for about 32 million newly insured Americans by 2019, and three to four million eligible by 2014, and [...]