The launch of a Verizon connected iPhone in February could cost AT&T as many as 6 million customers. The new phone could also affect Google, since many users of its Android phone chose it to avoid the iPhone’s exclusive contract with AT&T.
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City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio wants performance, not seniority, to determine who the city lays off. He argues that eager young employees are being lost to cuts, while older, higher-salaried workers end up keeping their jobs regardless of their performance. The Civil Service Commission warns that the unions will fight this “to a person.”
The Mexican American Community Services Agency is suing former CEO Olivia Soza Mendiola and former CFO Benjamin F. Tan, along with accountant Joe Clovis, for financial negligence. In its suit, MACSA indicated that several other high ranking staff members could also be sued for financial improprieties. One possibility is former COO Xavier Campos, who has since been elected to City Council.
We are lucky to live in such a bountiful state. Where else can you taste wine from three different local wineries, eat incredible cheese then finish the week with rare Bordeaux brought directly from France? Some might call us spoiled, yet it’s just another week of food and wine events in the Silicon Valley. Jan 12-19.
With 21 albums and a Na Hoku Hanohano lifetime achievement award, the Makaha Sons keep spreading the musical culture of Hawaii. They perform at Montalvo on Sunday, Jan. 16.
The police are not releasing any details about the suspects or victims in the Mexicali Club triple homicide. Meanwhile, the city continues to search for a new police chief. With the number of applicants narrowed to ten, a new chief could be named as early as February.
With California’s budget still in a crisis, it was inevitable that the new Governor would search desperately for places to cut. And it was inevitable that all the old favorites would be targeted. This means that higher education is on the chopping block again, with a proposed $1.4 billion in budget cuts. The UC and CSU systems will each face $500 million in state funding cuts, while the community college network can expect another $400 million in cuts.
A new planetary discovery by NASA Ames proves that rocky planets like Earth exist throughout the universe. The new planet, just 1.4 times the size of Earth, orbits a star about the size of our sun. With an estimated surface temperature of 2,500 degrees, however, it is believed to be too hot to sustain life.
A woman who found $1,000 in a Target parking lot had a hard time getting it back after no one claimed it. Although the store promised to give it to her if it remained unclaimed for 30 days, they later told her that store policy regarding large sums that are found is to add them to petty cash. Only after ABC News intervened did she get the money.
There may never have been a book quite like Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981),’ in which an 80-year-old songsmith takes an X-ray to his work, while evaluating predecessors too dead to complain.
