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Marriage Celebrations all over California Tonight
The SF Superior Court ruled that that the state's exclusion of same-sex couples from
civil marriage is unconstitutional.
Take Action Tonight in Your Local Community to Celebrate this Historic Marriage
Decision!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 3:28pm PST
Republican Abuse of Power: With This Congress, Democracy is dead
Even Newt Gingrinch says they have gone too far.
"The House has become a place where trivial issues are debated passionately and important issues not at all."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 10:43pm PST
Stanford Daily- Free wireless Internet offered in Palo Alto
Students who want to use free wireless Internet over dessert at the Cheesecake Factory or over lattes at the University Cafe are in luck.
On Tuesday, AnchorFree Wireless, a Sunnyvale-based wireless Internet provider, decided to make wireless Web access free on University Avenue. Now anyone can access the Internet in all stores, restaurants and outdoor areas within what AnchorFree has designated the Palo Alto Hotzone — the section of University Avenue extending from Middlefield Road to High...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 10:50am PST
CHP Fatally Shoot Suspect After High Speed Chase on 101
A high speed chase up and down the San Francisco peninsula ended in death Sunday when California Highway Patrol officers shot and killed a domestic violence suspect....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 12:29am PST
UAL Engineers Fight for A Contract (video/quicktime 12.6MB)
300 UAL engineers of IFPTE Union Local 20 have been fight since 2002 for a contract at UAL. This video shows why they are out on the street calling for justice. 4 min. 12.5 MB...
Posted: Thu, Mar 3, 2005 1:24pm PST
Male dressed female died of stab wounds, coroner says
A 42-year-old Daly City man, whose body was found Monday
dressed in women's clothing, was stabbed to death, according to the San
Mateo County Coroner's Office....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 9:22pm PST
Day Of Solidarity Open House
What? Day Of Solidarity Open House
When? Saturday, Feb 26th, 2005
Time? 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Where? 120 Park Ave, Palo Alto CA...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:46pm PST
Palo Alto gets contract valentine
PALO ALTO -- Hourly city workers who have newly unionized sent a facetious valentine to city management Monday protesting the pace of their first contract negotiations....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 8:13pm PST
Mountain gets native upgrade
On a stretch of San Bruno Mountain where migrating birds annually stop to eat, drink and rest before making their trek north, park lovers and officials have big plans to restore the area's wildlife habitat....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 8:09pm PST
Social Security's "Sleeper Issue" : Price Indexing Exposed By Kucinich
Kucinich added that while much attention has been focused on private accounts, price indexing, once understood by both the media and the American people generally, will create such an uproar that it will jeopardize not only the Administration’s plans, but could create great political risk for members supporting the plans....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 9:58pm PST
Nancy Pelosi is failing the democratic party
According to The Hill newsletter, Pelosi wants to give Bush all the free air time he wants to sell his SS reform plan without rebuttal from Dems. Then Nancy proposes a "barrage" from Dems over President's Day weekend, when no one will be watching television....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:06pm PST
Woolsey Calls for Hearings: Support Troops by Bringing Them Home
"Everyone who loves freedom was moved by the courage of millions of Iraqis braving death to cast a ballot on January 30. The Iraqi elections, however, do not justify this war - neither the lies used to sell it, nor the incompetence with which it has been managed....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 7:49pm PST
Police Acountability
How to truly have police act like human beings....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 9:53am PST
January 20 Protest in Palo Alto
Two hundred people gathered in downtown Palo Alto January 20th to protest Bush's inauguration and the war in Iraq...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 11:33pm PST
Tanaka Kinuyo film series at Stanford
A Kinuyo Tanaka film series is coming to Cubberley Auditorium at Stanford University from January 12th until March 2nd, every Wednesday evening from 7:30pm. This is a rare opportunity to see some of the greatest achievements in cinema, with films by the greatest directors and actors of all time....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 2:12pm PST
Two men dead after separate police standoffs
A pair of confrontations with police left two San Mateo County men dead Sunday....
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 10:43pm PST
Raging Grannies at Walmart
The Peninsula Raging Grannies protested in their inimical style in front of the Mountain view Wal-Mart Saturday, December 11. http://PeninsulaRagingGrannies.org...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 5:00pm PST