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South Bay Area Codes Are a Changing
BusinessCommunityPolitics Oct 19, 2012, by Josh Koehn
Years from now, residents of San Jose will tell their children and grandchildren about simpler times—when phoning a neighbor meant punching in seven digits. Those will have been the days. When we were a community that rallied around a single area code. But starting Saturday, the laborious and confusing process of using 11 digits starts, as a new area code—669—is introduced to the South Bay.
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Religion has played a relatively small role in the Presidential race this year, aside from the topic of abortion. What many people don’t know, however, is that Republican candidate Mitt Romney took firm stances against abortion, even when the lives of the mothers were at risk, according to women who knew him during his rise to prominence within the Mormon church.
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Gov. Jerry Brown announced Thursday that California will be joining Maryland and Illinois as the third state to ban employers and universities from demanding social media login passwords. The bill originated out of the office of Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose).
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Prop. 34 could end the Death Penalty
LocalNewsPolitics Aug 15, 2012, by Leilani Clark 1 Comments
At San Quentin State Prison, 724 inmates are housed in the largest death row in the United States, waiting their turn on the lethal injection gurney. But if the Savings, Accountability and Full Enforcement for California Act (SAFE) passes on Nov. 6, their fate will change dramatically.
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Three religious leaders from Reno, Nev., have joined forces to call on the Santa Clara City Council to start using multifaith prayers to open meetings. For the past 25 years, an annually appointed councilmember opens the city’s bimonthly council meetings.
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Four years of data detailing the locations of hundreds of thousands of drivers who have passed through San Jose resides in a server somewhere in Costa Mesa. The server belongs to Plate Scan LLC, a now-defunct company that sold License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology to police departments, including San Jose’s. While law enforcement officials call the ethnology a valuable tool to track criminals, privacy advocates and l;lawmakers are becoming concerned.
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Bike Sharing Coming to San Jose
CommunityEnvironmentPolitics Jul 03, 2012, by Kim Diaz 1 Comments
VTA is partnering with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to establish a new bike sharing program. The program, set to launch Oct. 1, will offer 1,000 rental bikes across the Bay area, with about 400 in San Jose, Mountain View and Palo Alto. Each bike will have high-tech features that include smart cards, wireless internet solar powered stations and GPS technology.
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Last week, the battle lines over crowdfunding were drawn at an event held at the MIT Stanford Venture Labs (VLABs). While venture capital firms and angel investors deplore some of the fundraising methods of websites like Kickstart and IndieGoGo, President Obama’s JOBS bill could be opening the door to equal-opportunity startup companies.
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Downtown Association Hires Off-Duty Patrol Officers
BusinessCommunityPolitics Jun 22, 2012, by Josh Koehn 5 Comments
While private security firms increasingly patrol events, a new program in downtown San Jose plans to hire off-duty police officers to combat crime and the perception that the city’s core is unsafe.
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Courtesy of SV411.com, here’s a quick rundown of the latest technology news in Silicon Valley, including Zynga’s stock taking a hit as a byproduct of Facebook’s performance and the creator of Linux giving his former employer, NVIDIA, the smackdown.
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