The ballot for the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame is out, and about the only person missing is Mayor Ed Lee. For the Class of 2011, the Hall of Fame has listed 91 nominees in seven categories. Voters are asked to select one for each category, although more than one may be inducted. Last [...]
Here's another side effect of the recession: With people buying less, garbage cans in California are emptier these days. The amount of trash hauled to landfills has dropped to its lowest level since the state began keeping track in 1989, according to preliminary figures compiled by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. California now [...]
Earthquake Retrofit plans by Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital receive approval from Palo Alto.
Continued and growing evidence of fraud by the plaintiffs in the Ecuador case against Chevron are revealed in this fascinating piece in Fortune Magazine by editor Roger Parloff
The truth is starting to be known in the Chevron Ecuador case: "Legal hedge funds" are secretly backing the fraudulent lawsuit against Chevron
Although trial lawyers frequently have the upper hand in litigation built around environmental charges, they are taking a beating at the hands of Chevron Corp., which has been on a roll in U.S. federal courts.
Bay Area officials see major hospital projects in much the same way as Willie Sutton saw banks: It’s where the money is. More than $12 billion worth of hospital construction is in progress or planned in the Bay Area, and cash-starved local officials want to make sure part of that bounty finds its way into city and county coffers.
PR University has recruited master crisis strategist Sam Singer to outline the tools, tips and tactics we need in the digital era now to be ready to leap into action. Singer has earned his crisis stripes many times over with some of the nation's largest companies, but he's most recently famous as the Man Who Tamed the Tiger—for his brilliant handling of the San Francisco Zoo crisis after a big cat killed a zoo visitor on Christmas Day.
