More and more people across San Jose are turning trash into cash by bringing aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles for recycling and a refund. Once considered the income of the indigent, collecting recyclable trash is cutting across all economic sectors and incomes. At Ranch Town Recycling, they are seeing more and more people in expensive cars come to bring in their trash.
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At a special meeting today, City Council will discuss new zoning ordinances for medical marijuana dispensaries. The meeting comes in the wake of a series of raids on medical marijuana collective and a protest by card carrying marijuana users on Friday night. It is hoped that the meeting will clear up some of the haze surrounding the dispensaries’ legal limbo.
The film The Social Network was all about their on-again, off-again relationship between Zuck and the Winklevoss twins, who claim that Zuck was hired by them to code their own social networking site ConnectU. After receiving $65 million in settlement fees, the twins are back in court, claiming that the sum was based on fraudulent numbers.
A Continental Airlines flight from Mineta to Houston was diverted to Albuquerque because of a disruptive passenger, who threatened to commit suicide. Aviation police removed the passenger from the plane, and the FBI conducted interviews of the passengers to get a clearer picture of what happened in the air.
Stanford alums Thomas Steyer and Kat Taylor made a $7 million gift to the school to establish the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance for the study and development of new technologies for producing clean energy.
City Council is scheduled to discuss the latest developments in the proposed aerial route that high speed rail will take to reach its downtown destination. Meanwhile, Scott Knies, Executive Director of the San Jose Downtown Association, is already voicing his reservations, and urging the city to reconsider the tunnel option instead.
Pat Dando and the Chamber of Commerce will be attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a medical marijuana facility on Wednesday, even though the legality of such facilities under the city’s zoning laws has yet to be determined. “They are a business with good standing in the city,” says Dando, in what could be interpreted as the Chamber’s stand on medical marijuana.
The Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corp is suing Youtube for copyright infringement, after an Egyptian living in Alexandria posted videos of questionable ownership on the popular website. Though the videos have since been taken down, they are said to have caused “great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money.”
With unemployment still toying with 11 percent in Silicon Valley, chances are that you or someone you know is currently looking for a job. Well, there’s some good news finally. ABC 7 is hosting the HIREvent job fair today, and as many as 500 people could walk away with a salaried position. The event will be held at the Wyndham Hotel from 11 am to 3 pm.
The city is considering lowering the living wage requirement for airport workers and privatizing police and firefighter services there. The airport suffered more than the other two Bay Area airports during the recession, and it is facing a $1.3 billion bill for its recent renovation project. The South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council is challenging the city on the living wage issue.
