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| Jan.17 |
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Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year low
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| Feb.14 |
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Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year-low
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| Mar.21 |
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Bay Area Nurses Launch 10-Day Strike Thousands of nurses who work at hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health have gone on strike for the third time since October
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| May.28 |
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Bay Area home prices plummet 20.2%
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| Jun.22 |
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Relief As Temps Drop, Heat Wave Ends
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| Jun.26 |
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Smoke Invades Bay Area Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning throughout N. California made the sun appear pink as it rose and has caused health concerns
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| Jul.8 |
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Dangerously Hot Weather Grips Bay Area
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| Jul.17 |
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Home prices at four-year low
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| Jul.30 |
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The plunge in price of homes gets worse Prices fell 22.9% in May compared with a year ago. That made the area the 6th worst-performing region in the country
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| Aug.18 |
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Barack Obama Fundraises
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| Sep.23 |
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Inspectors Looking For Tainted Milk
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| Oct.5 |
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Palin Appearing At GOP Fundraiser
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| Nov.9 |
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Home prices down in 90% of ZIP codes
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| Nov.19 |
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Survey: job cuts coming to Bay Area
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| Nov.24 |
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Obama tapping Berkeley economist Romer
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| Nov.25 |
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Home prices had annual plunge, 29.5%
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| Dec.12 |
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School will not be renamed after Obama
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| Dec.15 |
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As rain & snow taper off, temps to plunge
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| Dec.17 |
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Bay Area Wakes Up To Frigid Temps
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| Dec.18 |
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Home values hit 8-year low| Bay Area home values plummeted to an eight-year low in November, to the median for existing single-family homes as $350,000 | |
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Gay rights leader to boycott inauguration
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| Dec.20 |
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Bay Area unemployment less than state
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| Dec.30 |
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Record 31% drop in home prices 4.2% drop from the prior month. Medians in the Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties have held up better than in Alameda, Contra Costa
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| Jan.1 |
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227 Bay Area D.U.I. Arrests, 1 Death |
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| Jan.17 |
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Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year low The sales plummeted to the slowest December recorded in 2 decades. It was the 35th consecutive month of decreasing sales
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Bay Area rents jump 9%
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Obama Touts Economic Plan In SF Stop
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| Jan.25 |
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Urban Flood Alert For Bay Area |
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| Feb.1 |
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Kennedy Touts Obama
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| Feb.14 |
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Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year-low Bay Area median prices dropped 10% last month, as a lack of credit and excess of uncertainty continued to keep buyers out of the market
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| Feb.23 |
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Strong Storms Predicted for Bay Area |
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| Mar.4 |
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Record low Bay Area business confidence |
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| Mar.9 |
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Bay Area transit agencies get millions |
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| Mar.14 |
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1,600 Bay Area teachers losing their jobs
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| Mar.21 |
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Bay Area Nurses Launch 10-Day Strike| Thousands of nurses who work at hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health have gone on strike for the third time since October | |
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| Mar.25 |
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Bay Area home prices drop record 13.2%
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| Apr.7 |
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Bay Area Inflation Exceeds Nat'l Average |
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| Apr.16 |
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Bay Area tops in broadband use
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| May.13 |
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Bay Area Gas Price Hits $4.02 A Gallon
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| May.22 |
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Homes sales get lift, but lid still on prices
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| May.24 |
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441 immigration arrests in Nor. California |
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| May.28 |
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Bay Area home prices plummet 20.2% Nationwide prices of single-family homes fell 14.1 percent in March nationwide compared with a year ago
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| Jun.6 |
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Cities issue fewer housing permits |
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| Jun.12 |
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Transit Agencies Get $21M For Security |
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| Jun.15 |
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Halibut boom means overharvest |
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| Jun.22 |
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Relief As Temps Drop, Heat Wave Ends Residents feeling stressed by a heat wave found relief from triple and near triple-digit temps that had become commonplace in recent day
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| Jun.24 |
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850 NorCal Fires Create Unhealthy Air |
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Bay Area home prices continue steep fall
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| Jun.26 |
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Smoke Invades Bay Area| Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning throughout N. California made the sun appear pink as it rose and has caused health concerns. Unhealthy air was expected to be the worst throughout the East... | |
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| Jun.29 |
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Commuters ditching cars due to gas cost |
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| Jun.30 |
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New Bay Area Red Flag Warning Issued |
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| Jul.6 |
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Heat Wave Headed To Bay Area |
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| Jul.8 |
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Dangerously Hot Weather Grips Bay Area The Bay Area is in the midst of a heat wave that is expected to break temperature records - with no relief in sight until the end of the wee...
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| Jul.9 |
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Wood burning banned on bad nights |
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| Jul.17 |
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Home prices at four-year low With bargain-priced foreclosures glutting the market, the median price in June plunged below the half-million-dollar mark
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Starbucks To Close 12 Locations
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| Jul.18 |
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Bay Area To See Int'l Space Station |
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| Jul.19 |
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Venture investments down last quarter |
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| Jul.20 |
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Foreclosure Rental Scam Strikes Bay Area |
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| Jul.23 |
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Transportation Officials OK Toll Lanes |
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| Jul.30 |
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The plunge in price of homes gets worse| Prices fell 22.9% in May compared with a year ago. That made the area the 6th worst-performing region in the country | |
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| Jul.31 |
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Clinton, Obama Rally Union Workers
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| Aug.15 |
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Bay Area Confidence Slips
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| Aug.18 |
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Barack Obama Fundraises Obama was expected to raise $7 million at the Fiarmont Hotel, his largest one-night event in the history of his presidential campaign
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| Aug.19 |
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Home Prices Plunge To 53-Month Low
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| Aug.26 |
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Home sales soar as prices plunge
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| Aug.29 |
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5 of 100 most powerful women in B. Area
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| Sep.12 |
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Smog violations increase under new rules |
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| Sep.18 |
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Home sales sluggish, prices continue to slip |
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| Sep.20 |
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Town's sign gets political update
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| Sep.23 |
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Inspectors Looking For Tainted Milk Federal and state inspectors have been sweeping through ethnic or Asian supermarkets
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| Oct.5 |
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Palin Appearing At GOP Fundraiser Republican vice presidential candidate was slated to attend a political fundraiser with more than 1,000 people paying as much as $2,500 each
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| Oct.9 |
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Pothole Forces Lane Closure On Bridge |
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| Nov.7 |
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Gore Says Obama's Election Overwhelming
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| Nov.9 |
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Home prices down in 90% of ZIP codes Home prices have declined often by more than double digits. More than 70% of ZIPs saw prices fall by more than 10 percent
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| Nov.11 |
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DA Harris To Run For State Attorney Gen.
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| Nov.12 |
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Homeowners owe more than home's worth
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| Nov.15 |
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2nd Day Of Record Breaking Temps |
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| Nov.19 |
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Survey: job cuts coming to Bay Area A survey of 509 executives: 4 out of 10 employers contacted in a survey anticipate cutting jobs within six months
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No Wood Burning On Spare The Air Day |
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| Nov.20 |
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Foreclosures boost homes sales
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| Nov.21 |
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Bay Area sheltered from huge job cuts
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Area Transit Use Mixed As Gas Prices Drop
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| Nov.24 |
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Obama tapping Berkeley economist Romer Obama turned to an authority on the Great Depression for his economic team today, tapping Christina Romer to head Council of Economic Advisers
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| Nov.25 |
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2nd Bay Area Spare The Air Day
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Home prices had annual plunge, 29.5% Among the 20 cities tracked, the San Francisco metropolitan region has the largest monthly decline, 3.9%
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| Dec.1 |
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600 properties listed below $100,000
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| Dec.4 |
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5 firms named 2009 Technology Pioneers
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| Dec.12 |
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School will not be renamed after Obama School District officials nixed the idea of renaming the Marin City's Martin Luther King Jr. Academy after community voiced opposition
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| Dec.13 |
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Cold Grips NorCal
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| Dec.15 |
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As rain & snow taper off, temps to plunge A powerful pre-winter storm system has pounded with rain and snow, and forecasters warned that temperatures would likely plunge
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| Dec.17 |
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Bay Area Wakes Up To Frigid Temps An exceptionally cold morning with temperatures in some coastal areas dropping into the 30s. In the North Bay valleys a low is 25 degrees
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| Dec.18 |
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Home values hit 8-year low| Bay Area home values plummeted to an eight-year low in November, to the median for existing single-family homes as $350,000 | |
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Gay rights leader to boycott inauguration Geoffrey Kors will skip Obama's inauguration ceremony to protest the participation of the Rev. Rick Warren, who supported a gay marriage ban here
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| Dec.20 |
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Bay Area unemployment less than state California's rate rose to 8.4%. San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo - 5.7%; Sout Bay, counties of Alameda and Contra Costa - 7.2%
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| Dec.26 |
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$89M infrastructure projects list submitted
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| Dec.30 |
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Record 31% drop in home prices 4.2% drop from the prior month. Medians in the Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties have held up better than in Alameda, Contra Costa
| Values for the region are still up 39.44 percent from January 2000
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| 2008 |
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| Jan.1 |
227 Bay Area D.U.I. Arrests, 1 Death |
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| Jan.25 |
Urban Flood Alert For Bay Area |
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| Feb.23 |
Strong Storms Predicted for Bay Area |
|
| Jun.15 |
Halibut boom means overharvest |
|
| Jun.22 |
Relief As Temps Drop, Heat Wave Ends Residents feeling stressed by a heat wave found relief from triple and near triple-digit temps that had become commonplace in recent day
|
| Jun.24 |
850 NorCal Fires Create Unhealthy Air |
|
| Jun.26 |
Smoke Invades Bay Area| Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning throughout N. California made the sun appear pink as it rose and has caused health concerns. Unhealthy air was expected to be the worst throughout the East... | |
|
| Jun.30 |
New Bay Area Red Flag Warning Issued |
|
| Jul.6 |
Heat Wave Headed To Bay Area |
|
| Jul.8 |
Dangerously Hot Weather Grips Bay Area The Bay Area is in the midst of a heat wave that is expected to break temperature records - with no relief in sight until the end of the wee...
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| Jul.9 |
Wood burning banned on bad nights |
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| Oct.9 |
Pothole Forces Lane Closure On Bridge |
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| Nov.15 |
2nd Day Of Record Breaking Temps |
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| Nov.19 |
No Wood Burning On Spare The Air Day |
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| Nov.25 |
2nd Bay Area Spare The Air Day
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| Dec.13 |
Cold Grips NorCal
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| Dec.15 |
As rain & snow taper off, temps to plunge A powerful pre-winter storm system has pounded with rain and snow, and forecasters warned that temperatures would likely plunge
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| Dec.17 |
Bay Area Wakes Up To Frigid Temps An exceptionally cold morning with temperatures in some coastal areas dropping into the 30s. In the North Bay valleys a low is 25 degrees
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|
| 2008 |
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| Mar.14 |
1,600 Bay Area teachers losing their jobs
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| Apr.16 |
Bay Area tops in broadband use
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| Jul.18 |
Bay Area To See Int'l Space Station |
|
| Dec.12 |
School will not be renamed after Obama School District officials nixed the idea of renaming the Marin City's Martin Luther King Jr. Academy after community voiced opposition
|
|
| 2008 |
|
| Jan.17 |
Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year low The sales plummeted to the slowest December recorded in 2 decades. It was the 35th consecutive month of decreasing sales
|
| Jan.17 |
Bay Area rents jump 9%
|
| Feb.14 |
Bay Area home sales fall to 20-year-low Bay Area median prices dropped 10% last month, as a lack of credit and excess of uncertainty continued to keep buyers out of the market
|
| Mar.4 |
Record low Bay Area business confidence |
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| Mar.9 |
Bay Area transit agencies get millions |
|
| Mar.14 |
1,600 Bay Area teachers losing their jobs
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| Mar.21 |
Bay Area Nurses Launch 10-Day Strike| Thousands of nurses who work at hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health have gone on strike for the third time since October | |
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| Mar.25 |
Bay Area home prices drop record 13.2%
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| Apr.7 |
Bay Area Inflation Exceeds Nat'l Average |
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| May.13 |
Bay Area Gas Price Hits $4.02 A Gallon
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| May.22 |
Homes sales get lift, but lid still on prices
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| May.28 |
Bay Area home prices plummet 20.2% Nationwide prices of single-family homes fell 14.1 percent in March nationwide compared with a year ago
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| Jun.6 |
Cities issue fewer housing permits |
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| Jun.12 |
Transit Agencies Get $21M For Security |
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| Jun.24 |
Bay Area home prices continue steep fall
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| Jun.29 |
Commuters ditching cars due to gas cost |
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| Jul.17 |
Home prices at four-year low With bargain-priced foreclosures glutting the market, the median price in June plunged below the half-million-dollar mark
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| Jul.17 |
Starbucks To Close 12 Locations
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| Jul.19 |
Venture investments down last quarter |
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| Jul.20 |
Foreclosure Rental Scam Strikes Bay Area |
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| Jul.23 |
Transportation Officials OK Toll Lanes |
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| Jul.30 |
The plunge in price of homes gets worse| Prices fell 22.9% in May compared with a year ago. That made the area the 6th worst-performing region in the country | |
|
| Aug.15 |
Bay Area Confidence Slips
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| Aug.19 |
Home Prices Plunge To 53-Month Low
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| Aug.26 |
Home sales soar as prices plunge
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| Aug.29 |
5 of 100 most powerful women in B. Area
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| Sep.18 |
Home sales sluggish, prices continue to slip |
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| Sep.23 |
Inspectors Looking For Tainted Milk Federal and state inspectors have been sweeping through ethnic or Asian supermarkets
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| Nov.9 |
Home prices down in 90% of ZIP codes Home prices have declined often by more than double digits. More than 70% of ZIPs saw prices fall by more than 10 percent
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| Nov.12 |
Homeowners owe more than home's worth
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| Nov.19 |
Survey: job cuts coming to Bay Area A survey of 509 executives: 4 out of 10 employers contacted in a survey anticipate cutting jobs within six months
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| Nov.20 |
Foreclosures boost homes sales
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| Nov.21 |
Bay Area sheltered from huge job cuts
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| Nov.21 |
Area Transit Use Mixed As Gas Prices Drop
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| Nov.24 |
Obama tapping Berkeley economist Romer Obama turned to an authority on the Great Depression for his economic team today, tapping Christina Romer to head Council of Economic Advisers
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| Nov.25 |
Home prices had annual plunge, 29.5% Among the 20 cities tracked, the San Francisco metropolitan region has the largest monthly decline, 3.9%
|
| Dec.1 |
600 properties listed below $100,000
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| Dec.4 |
5 firms named 2009 Technology Pioneers
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| Dec.18 |
Home values hit 8-year low| Bay Area home values plummeted to an eight-year low in November, to the median for existing single-family homes as $350,000 | |
|
| Dec.20 |
Bay Area unemployment less than state California's rate rose to 8.4%. San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo - 5.7%; Sout Bay, counties of Alameda and Contra Costa - 7.2%
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| Dec.30 |
Record 31% drop in home prices 4.2% drop from the prior month. Medians in the Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties have held up better than in Alameda, Contra Costa
| Values for the region are still up 39.44 percent from January 2000
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| 2008 |
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| Jul.20 |
Foreclosure Rental Scam Strikes Bay Area |
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| Sep.12 |
Smog violations increase under new rules |
|
|
| 2008 |
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| Jan.17 |
Obama Touts Economic Plan In SF Stop
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| Feb.1 |
Kennedy Touts Obama
|
| May.24 |
441 immigration arrests in Nor. California |
|
| Jul.9 |
Wood burning banned on bad nights |
|
| Jul.31 |
Clinton, Obama Rally Union Workers
|
| Aug.18 |
Barack Obama Fundraises Obama was expected to raise $7 million at the Fiarmont Hotel, his largest one-night event in the history of his presidential campaign
|
| Aug.29 |
5 of 100 most powerful women in B. Area
|
| Sep.20 |
Town's sign gets political update
|
| Sep.23 |
Inspectors Looking For Tainted Milk Federal and state inspectors have been sweeping through ethnic or Asian supermarkets
|
| Oct.5 |
Palin Appearing At GOP Fundraiser Republican vice presidential candidate was slated to attend a political fundraiser with more than 1,000 people paying as much as $2,500 each
|
| Nov.7 |
Gore Says Obama's Election Overwhelming
|
| Nov.11 |
DA Harris To Run For State Attorney Gen.
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| Nov.24 |
Obama tapping Berkeley economist Romer Obama turned to an authority on the Great Depression for his economic team today, tapping Christina Romer to head Council of Economic Advisers
|
| Dec.12 |
School will not be renamed after Obama School District officials nixed the idea of renaming the Marin City's Martin Luther King Jr. Academy after community voiced opposition
|
| Dec.18 |
Gay rights leader to boycott inauguration Geoffrey Kors will skip Obama's inauguration ceremony to protest the participation of the Rev. Rick Warren, who supported a gay marriage ban here
|
| Dec.26 |
$89M infrastructure projects list submitted
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