Animal Friends: Coon cats can be real characters - San Jose Mercury News border=

Animal Friends: Coon cats can be real characters - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
She rescued Mickelson — aka Micka, Mickaboo, McMuffin and M-Cat — from Humane Society Silicon Valley seven years ago, and the rascal is now a 20-pounder. "He's the biggest bundle of purrmonster love on the planet," Lisa said. …

Filmmaker Bill Rose focuses on people who follow unexpected paths - Palo Alto Online border=

Filmmaker Bill Rose focuses on people who follow unexpected paths - Palo Alto Online

Palo Alto Online, CA
She spent hours reading in the city library and began attending Mass. By 1999 she seemed calmer. That July she left town, saying she was "going home." The following January, her body was found near San Luis Reservoir in Merced County, 45 miles away. …
Stanford Report

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Another Bad Sign for Oakland? - East Bay Express

East Bay Express, CA
But after watching this stuff unfold for the past decade, I smell a snake in the grass. To me, it's more likely that Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is laying the groundwork to help his friend A's co-owner Lew Wolff make a case for moving the team to …

Sunset Launches "Plant Finder", The Ultimate (Online) Gardening Tool - PR Web (press release) border=

Sunset Launches "Plant Finder", The Ultimate (Online) Gardening Tool - PR Web (press release)

PR Web (press release), WA
New online tool allows gardeners to search the Sunset Western Garden Book's top 2500 plants, making it easy to find the best plants for your own backyard. Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) March 31, 2009 — Sunset Magazine (http://www.sunset.com), …
PitchEngine (press release)

Menlo Park could scrap Dumbarton transit station, housing plans - San Jose Mercury News border=

Menlo Park could scrap Dumbarton transit station, housing plans - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Mike Rosenberg Menlo Park officials tonight will ask the city council to abandon the long-standing plan for a Bayside multimodal transit center/housing project and push instead for a massive business park on a 130-acre parcel near the Dumbarton …
The Almanac Online
San Jose Mercury News

Saratoga Chamber of Commerce executive director arrested on ... - San Jose Mercury News border=

Saratoga Chamber of Commerce executive director arrested on … - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Brian Babcock Elizabeth Borbolla, executive director of the Saratoga Chamber of Commerce, was arrested Friday on charges of forgery and embezzlement, the Santa Clara County Office of the Sheriff reported. Borbolla is accused of forging two checks …
Bizjournals.com

Some Mountain Viewers Prefer Unaffordable Housing - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Some Mountain Viewers Prefer Unaffordable Housing - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
A small group of Mountain View residents are riled up about a city proposal to build an affordable-housing development on a city-owned lot, according to the Mountain View Voice. The concern, as one resident put it, is that the city is "building a …

Catholics Similar to Mainstream on Abortion, Stem Cells - Gallup.com border=

Catholics Similar to Mainstream on Abortion, Stem Cells - Gallup.com

Gallup.com
by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ — Despite the Roman Catholic Church's official opposition to abortion and embryonic stem-cell research, a Gallup analysis finds almost no difference between rank-and-file American Catholics and American non-Catholics in …
Washington Post
Religion Dispatches
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NC nursing home suspect had 'violent tendencies' - San Jose Mercury News border=

NC nursing home suspect had 'violent tendencies' - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News
By TOM FOREMAN Jr. and KEVIN MAURER AP Writers CARTHAGE, NC—The ex-wife of a gunman accused of killing eight people in a nursing home said he had "violent tendencies," and police said he could have killed more if a heroic officer hadn't intervened by …
CBS
Philadelphia Inquirer
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White House questions viability of GM, Chrysler - Washington Post border=

White House questions viability of GM, Chrysler - Washington Post

Washington Post
By PHILIP ELLIOTT AP WASHINGTON — Neither General Motors nor Chrysler submitted acceptable plans to receive more federal bailout money, the Obama administration said as it set the stage for a crisis in Detroit that would dramatically reshape the …
Bloomberg
New York Times
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