Later this month, Silicon Valley tech magnate Peter Thiel will announce the names of the 20 lucky college students he will pay $100,000 to drop out. Thiel believes that similar to Americans’ willingness to assume large sums of debt for housing, the ever-increasing debt being assumed by students will create a similar bubble, which too…
Shh… don’t tell anyone, the illegal business of growing and distributing pot in California is now a $14 billion a year industry. The medical marijuana industry was born in 1980s San Francisco at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Dennis Peron, Vietnam war veteran, activist and longtime friend of the late Harvey Milk saw first-hand…
The Net Neutrality Ruling: Its Potential Impact on Independent Bloggers Posted by Angela Bacca on 2/07/11 • Categorized as Editorials The 20th Century was an era of increased efficiency in communications technology. It has allowed our economies and culture to globalize, turning communication into the world’s most valuable currency.Like the print, radio and television media before it, international…
Originally Published by SFCritic I spend a lot of time in front of a computer, and a lot of that time utilizing the internet to discover new music. I usually start at Pandora.com, discover a song I like and then listen to the whole album– for free- at Lala.com. Lala had become the bridge between…
by Angela Bacca DECEMBER 6, 2007 9:25 AM Rapper Jay-Z’s new video, “Blue Magic,” features scenes of New York City, clubs, cars and stacks of euros. That’s right, euros—not dollars. The dollar continues to drop and the euro continues to rise. So what exactly is Europe doing right and what is America doing wrong? Among other…
Revamping the CSU balancing act by Angela Bacca & Sean Maher AUGUST 29, 2007 10:23 PM “If it bleeds, we can kill it,” said then-actor, now-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in his 1987 movie “Predator.” See, even in 1987 Arnold had wise words on how to manage the budget. It took over two months to approve the states…
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