The Chronicle reports that the city of San Francisco is buying Treasure Island from the federal government for at least $55M to make the place "a model of sustainable development". Can it become the first charter city?
action: discuss this with Justo.
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Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Why PhDs voted overwhelmingly for Barak Obama in this election cycle?
One explanation would be that so far the scientific community took the biggest employment hit during this recession, therefore people voted with their wallets. For example, Monster Employment Index for the San Francisco Bay Area shows that over the last 12 months job demand in Life, Physical, and Social Sciences category fell 50% ( Oct, 07 - 121; Oct, 08 - 61).
http://corporate.monster.com/Press_Room/MEI/Oct08/DMA/MonsterLEI_SF_Oct08.pdf
Military and Maintenance/Repair jobs were among the least affected.
One explanation would be that so far the scientific community took the biggest employment hit during this recession, therefore people voted with their wallets. For example, Monster Employment Index for the San Francisco Bay Area shows that over the last 12 months job demand in Life, Physical, and Social Sciences category fell 50% ( Oct, 07 - 121; Oct, 08 - 61).
http://corporate.monster.com/Press_Room/MEI/Oct08/DMA/MonsterLEI_SF_Oct08.pdf
Military and Maintenance/Repair jobs were among the least affected.
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