One million people will descend on Market Street today for the San Francisco Giants victory parade and rally. The Giants have gripped the Bay Area like no team since the 1980’s 49ers, and the team’s hold on fans grows each
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As gutsy New Yorkers begin the task of drying out the city, here’s one thought that occurred to me last night watching the horrifying pictures from a distance. It’s obviously not crucial right now — but in the long run
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Hey, today is Halloween and the San Francisco GIANTS victory Parade in the City! Awesome young Giants swept Detroit Tigers on their home turf – Comerica Park. World Series Champions, second title and ring in three years, brought home the
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Remember those who urged consumers to heavily borrow for new homes just before the 2008 housing bubble burst? Such confidence was promoted as redefining economic reality, a nonsensical theory with destructive consequences. Now the Republican Party has borrowed this idea
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San Francisco become the better franchise in a longtime rivalry, its presence in the World Series a clinching piece of evidence. (Ed Note: LA Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke wrote this prior to the Giants winning the World Series. It
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Columbus, Ohio—Theresa Bruskin, a field director for Working America (the AFL-CIO’s community arm), passed a jarring mix of well-maintained bungalows and abandoned homes as she worked her way through Hilltop, a racially diverse, working-class neighborhood. Such traditional “labor to neighbor”
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In a nail biting, back and forth game that fittingly was decided by a Marco Scutaro game winner, the San Francisco Giants showed the baseball world for the second time in three years that they are the best. Few gave
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