I witnessed some horrible decisions on Sunday at the Raider game and was devastated. I mean, there is absolutely no way Anna should have been crowned Raiderette of the Year at halftime. Diana got robbed. In their current three game skid, the Raiders couldn’t even get started against the Miami Fins or Green Bay Cheeseheads [...]
These are confusing days to be shopping for a light bulb. New federal standards were to kick in after the New Year requiring 100-watt bulbs to be more energy efficient. Then Congress, in a bill passed this month to keep the government running, blocked enforcement of the new law until October 2012. Online: Smartphone app [...]
Bank of America agreed to pay $335 million to resolve allegations that its Countrywide unit engaged in a widespread pattern of discrimination against qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers on home loans. The settlement with the U.S. Justice Department was filed Wednesday with the Central District court of California and is subject to court approval. The [...]
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who bought previously occupied homes rose last month. But the National Association of Realtors says it overstated about 3.5 million sales during and after the Great Recession, showing the housing market remains much weaker than previously thought. The private trade group says sales rose 4 percent last month to [...]
FAIRFIELD — A disagreement over how to deal with endangered species has put at risk $24 million that is to go toward the Interstates 80 and 680 interchange renovation project, according to local transportation officials. It’s a matter of timing. The Solano Transportation Authority and state Department of Transportation are working on a $111 million [...]
LOS ANGELES — KB Home is increasingly catering to more affluent homebuyers in markets where there is less competition from homes up for resale and foreclosures, and the strategy is paying off. The homebuilder reported on Wednesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 20 percent on rising expenses. Its shares fell 52 cents, or 6.7 [...]
OAKLAND — Thousands of nurses at nine San Francisco Bay area hospitals are planning a one-day strike over contract talks with Sutter Health. Union officials say 4,000 nurses will walk off the job at 7 a.m. Thursday unless a deal is reached with Sutter. The strike would affect Alta Bates, Summit and Herrick campuses in Berkeley and Oakland, Eden Medical [...]
Whatever else you may want to say about Michele Bachmann’s “serious” candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination, this much is true: she adds a much-needed note of levity to an otherwise “zany” but not very entertaining field. Her unreachable smile, her never-quite-serious yet never-wavering expression, make her seem like a “Saturday Night Live” spoof of [...]
Newt Gingrich caught well-deserved flak for referring to Palestinians as “an invented people.” While pandering for support of the Republican presidential nomination, he took his shtick to The Jewish Channel, a cable TV station. There he disavowed the legitimacy of a Palestinian homeland in the interview. The most insightful refutation to what he said may [...]
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