October 23, 2012, 12:05 AM
How much online advertising is too much? That’s one of the questions before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as it finalizes regulations to let companies to raise money from investors through crowdfunding. The advertising regulations are one of a slew of issues the SEC...
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October 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
The pattern of knocking back a few drinks every few days, followed by days of no drinking, can cause more brain damage in rats than drinking moderately every day, say scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. And the damage caused to the prefrontal cortex sets up a cycle...
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October 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
Big changes are coming to San Francisco’s most heavily traveled and historic bus line – but few people know about them, according to a new survey of transit passengers. Plans to install two separated bus-only lanes on Geary Boulevard to speed up the 38-Geary line have been in...
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October 21, 2012, 12:05 AM
While nearly 70 of California’s state parks fought to escape closure from budget cuts, the crown jewel of the park system – Hearst Castle – waived $611,000 in private event fees over the last decade for select individuals and organizations, including the politically connected....
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October 19, 2012, 12:05 AM
The state medical board has revoked the license of an East Bay physician who prescribed high amounts of narcotic pain medications to indigent patients, three of whom died while under his care. Administrative Law Judge Mary-Margaret Anderson concluded that Edward Manougian, 83, prescribed...
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October 19, 2012, 12:05 AM
Robert L. Ferris, an estate-planning attorney, says the documents he has accessed through the San Francisco Law Library have helped him handle cases for nearly two decades. But he might be on his own next year when the War Memorial Veterans Building, which houses the historic...
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October 19, 2012, 12:05 AM
The Arizona group that dumped $11 million into California's ballot measure melee this week is led by a Republican activist who calls labor unions "the parasite that is killing our jobs." Robert Graham, a candidate for Arizona Republican Party chairman, heads Americans for...
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October 18, 2012, 12:05 AM
The California Department of Education said it would investigate whether the San Francisco Unified School District violated federal regulations by improperly denying summer school services to students with special needs in order to cut costs. The state investigation follows a report ...
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October 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
About nine months ago, at a small park playground a few hundred feet from their children’s struggling school, a group of parents chanted, cheered and delivered passionate speeches about their growing frustration with Desert Trails Elementary. That Jan. 12 park rally – which drew a...
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October 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
A Peninsula ballot measure that would limit the pay of executives at El Camino Hospital faces its toughest opposition from the hospital, which has donated three-quarters of the campaign funds to defeat the proposal. El Camino Hospital has contributed $149,000 in an attempt to...
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October 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
San Francisco police arrested Marcel Largaespada on April 30 after a gunpoint robbery at a Lombard Street business, but they couldn’t catch his alleged accomplice, Alan McCahill. McCahill gave officers the slip, investigators believed, by hopping on a Muni bus. He was caught days...
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October 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
Dr. Baldomero De Leon Jr. has practiced internal medicine for more than 30 years, currently working out of a second-floor office across the street from the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. A graduate of the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, De Leon is certified for...
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October 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
State regulators need to have more oversight of new types of companies that claim to have a social or environmental mission, legal experts say. About 75 companies have registered as "benefit" or "flexible purpose" corporations since Gov. Jerry Brown...
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October 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
Women might use emoticons more than men, but men have a broader emoticon vocabulary. That’s what researchers from Rice University are saying in a new study that evaluated the use of emoticons in text messages. “This was a unique study in that we were able to collect data from...
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October 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
A San Francisco Unified School District administrator urged teachers to re-evaluate whether to offer summer school to special education students as a way to cut costs, a move that special education teachers and attorneys say violates federal regulations. Lisa Miller, the district’s head...
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