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• OPEN FORUM: A Thanksgiving Feast With Vodka

  By George E. Barantseff In 1950 -- after Mao Tse-Tung and his Communist forces defeated Chiang Kai-Shek -- there was a large migration of White Russians (an anti-Communist movement) from the Chinese mainland to the San Francisco Bay Area. Those people who were on the losing side of the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:21pm EST
  

• Lois Kazakoff: Who creates the jobs?

  More economists are saying that continuing job losses and moribund job creation will require a second economic stimulus. What they don't agree on is where to create jobs -- in the private sector or in the public sector. Michael Bernick, a former director of the California Employment Development...
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:00pm EST
  

• Debra J. Saunders: Lockerbie bomber is still alive

  Angry critics of the Scottish Justice Minister's "compassionate" release of convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on August 20 -- based on the belief that Megrahi was supposed to have less than three months to live -- have been counting the days, to see how accurate the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

• Lois Kazakoff: Too few women in the executive suites

  Too few women in the executive suites and boardrooms? How often did I write that story when I was a business writer and editor? Sadly, a new report out of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, suggests little has changed on that front and that California's largest firms have [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:02pm EST
  

• Lois Kazakoff: How much do middle skill jobs pay? $50,000

  Well-paid jobs are within reach of many workers in the Bay Area, yet labor and business leaders say there are not enough trained workers to fill the jobs emptying by retiring Baby Boomers. The Chronicle's Nov. 15 Insight section offers a glimpse at the nature of those occupations, what [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:54pm EST
  

• Lois Kazakoff: And the next generation

  Californians still think our colleges and universities are valuable institutions but they are worried about the effects of budget cutting and rising tuitions. That's what the Public Policy Institute of California draws from its most recent survey of Californians, which you can read here . The...
  
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:09pm EST
  

• Lois Kazakoff: The face of globalization

  The clock my brother assembled in the days before he moved to Singapore offers a look at our globalized society in one face. Actually, five faces. The clock sits in his new apartment to help him mentally connect with the time and space where his family members are as he [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:49pm EST
  

• Debra J. Saunders: Poor recall

  John Todd from Napa didn't feel a need to check before he wrote the Chronicle, complaining that he did not recall my hitting anti-abortion shooters as terrorists. Apparently does not recall my June 2 column, "Terrorism in Wichita." Maybe it was too subtle. ...
  
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:32am EST
  

• Lois Kazakoff: Retooling for the new economy

  The lack of workers, not jobs, surprisingly was a running theme through The Chronicle's three symposia on joblessness in the Bay Area. Economists, sociologists and workforce specialists all said the state faces a huge shortage of skilled workers -- a million or more -- as Baby Boomers retire. ...
  
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:43pm EST
  

• OPEN FORUM: On prostate cancer screening

  By Laura Esserman As cancer surgeons, we witness the fear and anxiety we create when we tell patients that they may have cancer. This fear is understandable, as cancer can be a deadly disease. Choices for therapy can be overwhelming and treatments emotionally and physically taxing. We want to...
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:29pm EST
  

• Debra J. Saunders: So how tall is Steve Poizner?

  Because I had asked his staff how tall Poizner is for an Oct. 25 column , I figured I should put myself in the hotseat and ask the Insurance Commissioner myself when I ran into him at the Willie Brown Institute on Politics and Public Policy breakfast this morning: So [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:59pm EST