San Francisco Transit Pulls the Plug on Wireless Communications
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer {Note: This post originally appeared on the media website Lippmann Would Roll.) On August 11, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)–a special government agency–disabled signal rep... more
Views: 1527Growing Pains: Cell Phone Manufacturers and Service Providers Face Battles On All Fronts
Region: United Statesby Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared in the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. The last few months have been one giant headache for cell phone manufacturers and services providers and one giant victo... more
Views: 2456Do you sleep next to your phone? If so, it’s time to break up.
Region: United StatesLast Tuesday San Francisco's Board of Supervisor's passed its widely publicized "Cell Phone Right to Know" ordinance. The bill, which was endorsed by popular San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, passed 10-1. Now that t... more
Views: 5226Genealogy Serves As Catalyst For Book On African-American Issues
Region: United States
Horace Mann once wrote: "Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it." For two decades, author Anita Wills made a habit of researching her family... more
Views: 1610San Francisco on the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War
Region: California
A video on how San Francisco observed the 5th anniversary of the Middle East conflict. more
Views: 1293The Politics of Poop
Region: United States
A video on how one man is fighting to make 'poop' work for us, and not just be thought of as waste. more
Views: 1437Hooverville Returns: Car and Tent Cities on the Rise in San Francisco
Region: California
Radio journalist Thea Chroman has produced a two part series on the return of the Hooverville. It was one of the first pieces to be funded on Spot.Us and was done in collaboration with KALW and Roxbury News which provided ... more
Views: 2177Free Tickets to Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco for Citizen Journalists!
Region: California
Want to go to this year's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, but can't afford the nearly $2,000 pricetag? If you're a budding citizen journalist, you may be in luck! GroundReport is partnering with Technorati to offer two FR... more
Views: 2730Cubix Yerba Buena, Tiny 250 Square Feet Condos in San Francisco
Region: California
Property in San Francisco's posh South of Market neighborhood is some of the most expensive in the world. Cubix Yerba Buena, a new South of Market condominium development, is hoping the adages "loc... more
Views: 5378AFL-CIO Solidarity Center Honors Liberian Rubber Workers
Region: United States
The AFL-CIO honored the rubber workers’ union, the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL), with its 2007George Meany–Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award for "courage, innovation and leadership." ... more
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