A number of readers contacted me over the weekend to criticize our story, "Bay Area's Biggest Wealth Gap Is in Berkeley." These readers argued that the gap between rich and poor is widest in Berkeley primarily because the city is home to large numbers of students, who, in the words of one reader, are "only temporarily poor." But the inequality, revealed in recently released data from the Census Bureau, is ......
Updated Oct. 3, 2011 at 10:53 a.m. California's electorate will not be allowed to ban male circumcision, thanks to a bill signed over the weekend by Gov. Jerry Brown. The bill, by state Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Burbank) and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco), declares that "no city, county, or city and county ordinance, regulation, or administrative action shall prohibit or restrict the practice of malecircumcision, or the exercise of a parent's ......
On Aug. 19, The Bay Citizen published an article I wrote on the clean economy, "Green Jobs Predictions Proving a Pipe Dream." The piece, which also ran in the Bay Area pages of The New York Times under the headline "Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises," has drawn strong criticism from both opponents and supporters of green jobs initiatives. Environmentalists and their allies have argued that ......
Amazon isn't the only company in California that doesn't want to collect sales tax: the owners of the Richmond District's venerable Green Apple Books also protests the current scheme by which their customers must pay a combined 8.5% in state and local fees. And Green Apple launched a petition drive, hosted by the website change.org, to convince Sacramento to honor their request. "We should be exempt too, because we think it ......
The U.S. Census Bureau has launched an extremely useful -- and fun -- interactive tool that can help you bore in on the characteristics of an area's population with an incredible level of detail. Just put in your address on their interactive population map and you can see -- down to the block level -- how many people the 2010 Census counted, their age, race, age, and gender. You can use ......
