There’s a new party in town, the Teapot Party, and they put the “grass” back into grassroots. A small group of local supporters of the new movement met in San Jose’s Calabasas Park to talk about the goals: the taxation, regulation, and legalization of marijuana. City Councilmemers are divided as to their objectives.
Articles by Danny Wool
Time Magazine named Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook its Person of the Year for 2010, beating contender Steve Jobs and Julian Assange for the honor. The magazine explained its decision, saying that Facebook is “transforming the way we live our lives every day. It’s social engineering, changing the way we relate to each other.”
Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are both in the running for Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, but to win the honor, they will have to beat Julian Assange, Lady Gaga, and the Unemployed American.
City Council will vote tonight whether to place a ban on single use plastic bags in the city. The ordinance would restrict the use of plastic bags to restaurants and second hand stores as of 2012, with shops in violation of the new law facing a $1,000 fine.
Faced with dwindling revenues and an inability to compete with Google, Yahoo is preparing to lay off between 600 and 700 workers, possibly before Christmas, possibly as early as today. Most of the cuts will occur in Sunnyvale’s products unit, which creates consumer and advertising services.
Back in 2007, the 75 families of the South Valley Islamic Community received a permit to build a mosque on 15 acres of land in San Martin. Then the donations dried up because of the down economy. Now the community is trying to reinvigorate the project and hopes to have a new mosque in place within a year.
NASA Ames Airfield will soon be home to the world’s largest blimp, the 235-foot-long, 65-feet-in-diameter Bullet Class 580, manufactured by E-Green Technologies.The ultra-modern blimp has more room for helium in its compartments, making it able to reach altitudes of 22,000 feet, far more than the standard blimps, which rise to 4,000-5,000 feet.
San Jose took another step forward toward annexing Cambrian 36 on Tuesday. City Council voted unanimously to move ahead with the planned annexation, it agreed to postpone the matter for six months so that it can review an alternative offer made by Campbell to the city. The offer would likely include the exchange of lands between San Jose and Campbell, though Vice Mayor Judy Chirco says that any deal would be “revenue neutral” to San Jose.
Mark Zuckerberg was one of seventeen superrich individuals to sign on to the Giving Pledge, a campaign launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to get the very wealthy to pledge to give at least half of their wealth to charity. Also representing Facebook by signing the Pledge was Dustin Moskovitz, his Harvard roommate and Facebook cofounder.
The percentage of high school dropouts is inching up in Santa Clara County, and in 2009 stood at one out of every six students. The figures are making it hard to compete with up and coming educational powerhouses, like Shanghai, China.
