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.
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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.
At a special meeting Monday night, City Council voted to impose a 7 percent tax on medical marijuana sold in local dispensaries. The decision was made possible after voters passed Measure U, which empowered City Council to impose a tax as high as 10 percent. No other regulations on dispensaries were passed.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: DIY holiday lights, Jazz Orchestra, Cannons and Clouds, Northern Son, Quetzal Guerrero.
There already is an $89 million deal to build a new stadium for the Earthquakes near Coleman Avenue. It’s been there since 2008. Now, however, the city wants to make the deal even more attractive to Earthquakes owner Lew Wolff and two local developers in an effort to keep them from backing out. The proposed terms of the new deal would save the developers $4 million and give them an additional two years to buy it.
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.
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.
Mixing ska, funk, punk, rock and hardcore, Fishbone caters to their hardcore fans. They bring the funk to the Avalon on Dec. 16.
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.
