5 results for "Norimitsu Onishi"
A wider wealth gap troubles Silicon Valley
Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe approval of a new corporate jet center at this city's struggling airport might have been just another losing skirmish in the battle between Silicon Valley billionaires and middle-class neighborhoods worried about noise pollution. Instead...
Woeful Oakland Police Department is set for an ambitious restructuring
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 12:00 AMOver the next several months, this city will be partitioned into five police districts from its current two. The smaller districts, according to a new plan, will each be led by a powerful captain who will be held accountable for crime reduction ...
Shale could spark new oil boom
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 12:00 AMSecure in this state's history and mythology, the venerable Midway-Sunset oil field near here keeps producing crude more than a century after Southern California's oil boom. Many of its bobbing pump jacks are relatively short, a telltale...
Sex offenders fight online limits
Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 12:00 AMCalifornia's sex offender registry, the nation's oldest and largest, lists more than 74,000 living Californians convicted of sex crimes since 1947. Like sex offenders elsewhere in the nation, they have been increasingly restricted in rec...
George Lucas housing plan riles Marin County
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 12:00 AMIn 1978, a year after "Star Wars" was released, George Lucas began building his movie production company far from Hollywood, in the quiet hills and valley of Marin County just north of San Francisco. Starting with Skywalker Ranch, the ...
