In Spring 2002, Alameda County successfully completed the fourth largest solar electric system in the world atop the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of Alameda County's government buildings. This solar installation, the nation's largest rooftop system, was commissioned to help...
Home to over 1.3 million people, Alameda County, California encompass a land area of 738 square miles on the east side of San Francisco Bay. Alameda County has been a leader in smart energy strategies for years. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of all the Alameda...
Children in Alameda County Are Now Screened and Assessed 24 Hours a Day in a Safe, Nurturing Place OAKLAND, Calif. -- WestCoast Children's Clinic (www.westcoastcc.org) today announced that they are now staffing Alameda County's STAT Program 7x24x365. This is a significant change for the STAT Program. STAT provides...
LOS ANGELES, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- "Cumbia" music by La Sonora Dinamita, ballet folklorico dancers, carnival rides and other family entertainment will highlight the grand opening celebration of La Alameda -- newest shopping center serving the greater Walnut Park area featuring name-brand retailers and restaurants -- on Saturday, July...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Funding allocations from Proposition 1B, the 2006 voter approved bond to improve California's transportation infrastructure, have surged close to $4 billion near the end of the 2007-08 fiscal year, the California Department of Transportation Caltrans announced today. "Proposition 1B is paying for vital transportation projects...
Large Commercial Property Owners Begin Adopting Clean Energy IRVINE, Calif. -- Solar Monkey[TM], a national solar energy systems provider, today announced that it will be retrofitting 650,000 sq ft of the Robison Family Trust portfolio to accommodate rooftop solar electricity generation. Preliminary engineering has sized the systems to...
One Million Cans of Tomatoes to Benefit Needy Food Banks Throughout California OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Alameda County Community Food Bank today received a truckload of nearly 70,000 cans of diced tomatoes from SK Foods as part of one of the largest donations to food banks in California...
NEW YORK -- Three experts from NERA Economic Consulting provided testimony in support of Sprint in a recent favorable jury ruling in a class action lawsuit on early termination fees in Alameda County Superior Court, California. NERA Senior Vice President Dr. William Taylor and Vice President Christian Dippon...
SAN DIEGO -- Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP today announced that an Alameda county jury in Ayyad v. Sprint, rejected Sprint's contention that it suffered over a billion dollars in actual damages as a result of plaintiffs' early termination of their cell phone contracts. At the trial it...
Challenges Planned Termination of General Assistance Benefits County Agency Plans to Terminate Subsistence Benefit for Thousands of Desperately Poor People Who: The Public Interest Law Project PILP, an Oakland, California based advocacy group; Heller Ehrman LLP, an international law firm; and Bay Area Legal Aid, the...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'A+' rating to San Joaquin Delta Community College District's (San Joaquin, Sacramento, Calaveras, Solano and Alameda Counties, California) $100 million general obligation GO bonds, Election of 2004, series 2008B. The bonds are expected to price on June 18. Fitch has also affirmed...
Spirit Rising Music/Music World Entertainmentartist BRIAN COURTNEY WILSON will release his debut inspirational CD "JUSTLOVE" in stores on August 5. The Houston-based singer/songwriter's newdisc contains 10 tracks, including the self-penned title track, "JustLove," and "All I Need." Both songs are available on iTunes and werereleased simultaneously to Gospel...
With Alameda County's children suffering from some of the highest asthma emergency room and hospitalization rates in the state, new four-year "ATTACK" Asthma Program will target high-risk pediatric asthma patients through early intervention and education to improve quality of care and reduce health care costs. ALAMEDA, Calif. --...
Last evening, SF Bay Area non-profitsOWIT-NC, APICS Santa Clara, Northern California's WERC Chapter, WIL andGolden Gate University joined CSCMP's San Francisco Roundtable for theAnnual Collaborative Banquet. Incoming 2008-2009 CSCMP SFRT President,Michele Carroll, facilitated an Accelerated Networking reception before thebanquet at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. 'First...
Anthem's Care Comparison Tool Gives Anthem Members in six California counties - Los Angeles, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, the Most Complete Picture of Costs Associated with Medical Procedures WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross in California announced today...
Nearly 20 percent of Ellie Mae's in-house staff volunteers for one-day charitable housing project PLEASANTON, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellie Mae, the award-winning provider of software and services for the mortgage industry, is supporting the East Bay affiliate of Habitat for Humanity by sponsoring a corporate...
The sentencing for convicted murder Hans Reiser has been set for July 9. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman set the date at a late-morning hearing today. Hans Reiser attended the hearing wearing a red jail jumpsuit - a stark contrast from the shirt and...
SAN LEANDRO - Firefighters are on the scene at the Bayfair BART parking lot this morning extinguishing a car fire, which is sending out a lot of smoke, Alameda County Fire Department spokeswoman Aisha Knowles said. The fire was reported shortly at 7:30 a.m...
SAN LEANDRO -- A San Leandro man died Saturday night in a residential fire in San Leandro, officials said. The Alameda County Coroner's Bureau identified the man as Loi Hua, 78. Firefighters summoned to a two-story home on the 700 block of Floresta Avenue performed CPR...
OAKLAND - Hassan Mohamed El Haj had less than 11 seconds to respond to a demand by a masked gunman almost three years ago to hand over all the cash in the Campbell Market register. Haj, 75, froze at the demand, apparently terrified of the pistol...
