The University of California system is embroiled in a scandal over perks and compensation for some of its highest-paid employees. Are they worth it? Find out where you stand!
The Chans were set to build a nice, simple home on their own property. Then Chronicle honcho Jerry Roberts and his relentless wife moved next door. Suddenly, everything became very complicated and very nasty.
More like 'Let There Be Fight!'The U.C. Regents began their three-day Board Meeting today at U.C. San Francisco's Mission Bay campus -- but the real action is happening tomorrow morning, when Senator Leland Yee will make an appearance at 7:30 a.m. sharp in front of UCSF's Mission Bay campus to rally with students and workers to protest U.C. President Mark Yudof's latest budget proposal. Yudof will make his pitch to the regents tomorrow, hoping to fill a $813 million hole left by state cuts. The
We recently wrote about a bevy of protesting University of California faculty members and researchers incensed that they were facing pay cuts and furlough days while top U.C. executives were earning more than the president of the United States -- or, even more unforgivably, Tim Lincecum.
The unionized workers' mood didn't brighten at all with the U.C. regents' recent decision to augment many of the execs' salaries while dipping into theirs. Also miffed was State Sen. Leland Yee, who has
Sorry Bob -- no money for you.Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken to brandishing unsubtly lethal cutting implements of late. But when it comes to the sharpest cut of all, the pen really is mightier than the sword. Today the governor is wielding his "blue pen," administering an additional billion dollars or so to the state's stinkeroo budget via line-item veto. So, expect City Hall-area bars to be doing a brisk business tomorrow when San Francisco government employees begin to get solid ideas
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Bridge! Bridge! More Bridge! Troubled bridge over water! Didja hear about the bridge? Sigh. Take a news quiz. 1. The city of San Francisco agreed to cough up $250,000 regarding a lawsuit stemming from a 2005 spill in which perhaps 54,000 gallons of what was leaked into the ground, sewers, and Bay?A. SewageB. PesticideC. ChlorineD. Gasoline2. A math professor told SF Weekly that the odds of the letters I F-U-C-K Y-O-U randomly appearing at the start of seven lines i
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