The tragic disappearance of thousands of Bay Area birds in the wake of the Cosco Busan oil spill was rendered even that more palpable today by the San Francisco Examiner, who identified the avian survivors by name. The above screen capture from the Ex displays a couple of our luckier local feathered friends (hat tip to the reader who can tell us what kind of birds those are; there's a hint here on the page) -- yet the caption identifies them as "Maria Zellerbach, left, and Lee Munson." Maria an
U.S. Coast GuardYou can't blame illegal drugs for this -- but how about legal drugs? And how about the next time?An eye-opening article in today's San Francisco Examiner recounted the mountains of hard-core prescription narcotics picked up by Cosco Busan pilot John Cota in the months before he directed the ship into the Bay Bridge. The article was culled from a jaw-droppingly thorough National Transportation and Safety Board investigation into the troubled pilot's medical history. You can read t
The opposing attorneys' stories seem to go together like oil and water...Lawyers representing aggrieved San Francisco fishermen and the oil-spewing Dubai Star tanker spoke this week. They can agree on that. But not on much else, it would seem. After reviewing the $10 million class-action suit filed in San Francisco court on Friday, the lawyer for the Dubai Star ship and the corporations that own and operate it gave the legalistic version of "meh." "The owners have reviewed the lawsuit and
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