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 2008
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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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| Jan.25 |
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Urban Flood Alert For Bay Area
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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% Sales were up 21.4% from January and down 32.5% from 12 months earlier. The median price was $706,880
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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 The Bay Area boast the highest penetration of broadband Internet access in the country, with 62% of households connected to high-speed acces...
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| May.13 |
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Bay Area Gas Price Hits $4.02 A Gallon The statewide average price has reached a record high of $3.94. Cities that top the list include San Mateo, where gas is $4.05
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| May.22 |
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Homes sales get lift, but lid still on prices Compared with the previous April, however, sales were still down a painful 14.2%
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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.11 |
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PG&E: Electric increasing rates in October
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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 The price of a typical single-family home in the area plunged 22.1% compared with a year earlier
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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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| 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 week
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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. The $485,000 median price for resale homes, new homes and condos wa... | |
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Starbucks To Close 12 Locations  Starbucks has named all 600 company-owned stores, including 12 in the Bay Area, to close to boost its business and weed out unprofitable loc...
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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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| Aug.14 |
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PG&E plans big investment in solar power PG&E plans to buy 800 megawatts of photovoltaic solar power, 550 megawatts from OptiSolar, 250 megawatts from SunPower
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| Aug.15 |
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Bay Area Confidence Slips About 26% of area employers expect to shrink their workforce in the next six months, compared with 20% who plan to hire
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| Aug.19 |
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Home Prices Plunge To 53-Month Low Home prices in the San Francisco Bay area plunged 29.3% in July. The median price for new and resale homes and condos stood at $470K
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| Aug.26 |
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Home sales soar as prices plunge In the area sales increased 6.7 percent, and the median sank 21.2 percent to $663,190
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| Aug. 29 |
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5 of 100 most powerful women in B. Area Forbes: The Bay Area is home to five of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Safra Catz, Oracle's president, rose from No. 28 to No. 15
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| Sep. 12 |
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Smog violations increase under new rules The Bay Area may be forced to take additional steps to cut air pollution as it struggles to meet a new federal smog standard
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| Sep. 18 |
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Home sales sluggish, prices continue to slip Bay Area home sales stagnated in August as the median price continued to drop under the weight of foreclosures
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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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