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President Bush Drops in at Facebook HQ
BusinessNewsPolitics Nov 30, 2010, by Danny Wool
President George W. Bush dropped into Facebook on Tuesday for a public chat with the social network’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. Though he refused to criticize President Obama, saying it was not good for the country, he id make reference to the recent Wikileaks revelations, calling them “very damaging.”
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Are you buying your kids a bike this Christmas? Don’t worry about getting a license for it. City Council is expected to drop the bicycle license requirement at its weekly meeting this Tuesday. Bicycle licenses have been in place in San Jose since 1974. They were originally intended to build a database of all the bicycles in the city, and to make it easier to track down bikes when they get stolen.
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Raids Follow Passage of Medical Marijuana Tax
NewsPolitics Nov 10, 2010, by Eric Johnson 1 Comments
The raid on San Jose Patients Group was one of a number of “smash and grab” raids on local pot dispensaries that occurred last Thursday and Friday, Nov. 3 and 4, just days after San Jose voters overwhelmingly approved Measure U, a medical marijuana tax.
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City Council Addresses Medi-Pot Raids
LocalPolitics Nov 10, 2010, by Danny Wool
Some sixty medical marijuana activists and supporters took up their complaints with City Council on Tuesday night. They spoke out about recent police raids and the atmosphere of fear surrounding medical marijuana dispensaries. The Mayor was sympathetic to their cause, but said that the raids were conducted by the county and outside his jurisdiction.
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Chief Development Officer Paul Krutko announced his resignation, effective today, in an email to his department.Krutko has been with the city for eight years, and has several important accomplishments under his belt. He oversaw the purchase of 75 acres to expand Mineta Airport, and he negotiated with eBay to ensure that they stay in the city and expand their presence in San Jose. Kim Walesh will serve as Interim Chief Development Officer.
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Mayor Chuck Reed and San Jose City Council have streamlined the rules to boost the development of affordable housing projects. New projects are anticipated to put 8,000 people to work, win at least $1 billion in private investment in the city, and raise as much as $10 million in revenues for San Jose.
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Why Are They Erasing Mail-in Ballots?
LocalPolitics Nov 03, 2010, by Danny WoolTeams of election workers have been toiling around the clock to clean up over 100,000 ballots that were mailed in for the election. According to the County Registrar’s office, a printer toner smudge was confusing the vote counting machines. ProVoteSolutions,which produced the ballots, has announced that it will compensate Santa Clara County for all of the costs involved in manually inspecting and cleaning up the ballots.
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People who went out to vote yesterday could kill two birds with one stone. Two polling stations in Santa Clara County also offered flu vaccines to voters and non-voters alike. The program was initiated by and run in conjunction with Stanford University’s School of Medicine.
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Pot Not Legalized but Still Taxed
LocalPolitics Nov 03, 2010, by Danny WoolCalifornians may have voted no to Prop 19 and the legalization of marijuana, but the people of San Jose voted to tax marijuana anyways—or at least whatever marijuana can be sold legally in the city. The precise amount of the new tax will only be determined after City Council holds a study session on the matter on December 13.
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Google Takes on the Federal Government
BusinessPolitics Nov 02, 2010, by Danny WoolGoogle is suing the federal government, claiming that the Department of the Interior tailored its specs Microsoft products, effectively shutting Google out of the bidding process, and losing it a potential 88,000 government employees as clients.The lawsuit argues that Google’s own products are inherently more secure than Microsoft’s for handling sensitive documents and emails.
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