Thursday, September 10, 2009

Thursday is the New Friday

CFA, students protest

Students, faculty voice concerns over cuts

Blazej Bruzda

Issue date: 9/9/09 Section: News

The California Faculty Association (CFA), along with many students, filled the Sacramento State quad with protests against increased student fees and furlough days.



CSU, UC executive raises bill up for vote

Thursday, September 10, 2009

State lawmakers have brought back to life a bill prohibiting executive pay raises at California State University in bad budget years.

Sacramento State, UC Davis stress flu shots for students


Published: Thursday, Sep. 10, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 1B

There was a carnival atmosphere inside theUniversity Union at Sacramento State on Wednesday, with jugglers, magicians, fortune tellers, balloon artists … and nurses giving flu shots.

Sacramento Bee


Swine flu vaccines to come in October

Kristine Guerra

Issue date: 9/9/09 Section: News

With more cases of H1N1, also known as swine flu, expected this fall, Sacramento State will offer free swine flu vaccines to students, faculty and staff members, along with seasonal flu vaccines given every year.




U.S. Braces for Long Flu Season


Along With the New H1N1, Some Nasty Traditional Strains Are Raising Concerns

This year's flu season is shaping up to be unusually long and unpredictable, with current outbreaks of swine flu in schools potentially followed months from now by waves of seasonal flu among the elderly, according to health officials.


Wall Street Journal



Job Openings Fell to Record Low in July

Employers appear to be in no rush to hire back the millions who lost their jobs in the recession, despite signs of improvement in the economy.

Wall Street Journal

Bay Bridge delay feared

Thursday, September 10, 2009

State and regional transportation officials warned Wednesday that the planned completion of the Bay Bridge's new east span in late 2013 may be delayed and exceed original cost projections.

SFGate


President Makes His Pitch

Health Plan Cut to $900 Billion With Tax on Premium Coverage;

GOP Unconvinced

President Barack Obama gave an emotional, sometimes contentious address to Congress on Wednesday, combining tough talk to opponents with olive branches on policy in a bid to break the impasse on revamping the health-care system.


Wall Street Journal

Lawmaker Under Fire for Heckling Obama


New York Times



Assemblyman Duvall quits after bragging about affairs with two women


Space shuttle to dodge debris on way home

Thursday, September 10, 2009

NASA has decided to move the shuttle Discovery out of the way of a mystery piece of orbiting junk before the spacecraft heads for a scheduled landing on Earth.

SFGate


U.S. Says Iran Could Expedite Nuclear Bomb

Published: September 9, 2009

WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded in recent months that Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky, sprint for a nuclear weapon. But new intelligence reports delivered to the White House say that the country has deliberately stopped short of the critical last steps to make a bomb.


Typical jumper: 40, white, single and male

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The typical person who jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge is a 40-year-old, single, white man, according to a new report that looked at every known suicide on the span since 1994.

SFGate


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