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Bay Area Book Festival welcome letter from Cherilyn Parsons, founder and executive director of the festival
Published 2:56 pm, Thursday, April 19, 2018 Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Bay Area Book Festival welcome letter from Cherilyn Parsons, founder and executive director of the festival 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Nearly 90 years ago, Virginia Woolf published what became the classic “A Room of One’s Own” (1929) that decried how women were silenced in the literary world: “The world said with a guffaw, Write? What’s the good of your writing?” If we could pull down from history any writer to serve as our presiding spirit this year, it would be Woolf. She asserted that each woman who “never wrote a word... still lives. She lives in you and in me… I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worthwhile.” When I founded the Bay Area Book Festival in 2015, we made it a priority to highlight the voices of women as well as other … [Read more...] about Bay Area Book Festival welcome letter from Cherilyn Parsons, founder and executive director of the festival
Earthquake, hail, fierce rain rattle Bay Area — but, nope, there’s no link
Students from Montara Middle School play in the hail after their bus was grounded due to the hail storm on Redwood Road in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, April 16, 2018. The hail snarled traffic on Highway 13 due to cars sliding on icy roads and surrounding streets and delayed the start of the school day for many schools in the area. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group) A plant is almost buried in hail after a storm blew through the East Bay Hills during the morning commute in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, April 16, 2018. The hail snarled traffic on Highway 13 due to cars sliding on icy roads and surrounding streets and delayed the start of the school day for many schools in the area. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group) An Oakland woman takes a photo of her front yard after a hail storm blew through the East Bay Hills during the morning commute in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, April 16, 2018. The hail snarled traffic on Highway 13 due to cars sliding on hail covered roads and … [Read more...] about Earthquake, hail, fierce rain rattle Bay Area — but, nope, there’s no link
Bay Area nonprofit offers active shooter preparedness courses
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Active shooters in workplaces and public spaces are becoming more frequent.In the Bay Area in these last two months, a small San Francisco barber shop, the Veterans Home in Yountville, and YouTube headquarters were all targets. These events and others around the nation have groups like National VIPS (Violent Intruder Preparedness Solutions) on high demand. "Organizations are beginning to realize that they have a really significant role in protecting their people," says Kerry Harris, one of the nonprofit's founders. National VIPS offers active shooter prevention and preparedness services nationwide. Today, they were offering a class at Casino Matrix in San Jose.RELATED: Bay Area school administrators take active shooter safety courseHarris, who used to work at the San Mateo Sheriff's Department, offers these tips: Make a run for it, if possible. Create space between you and the threat. If you need to shelter, put as many barriers between you and a threat. … [Read more...] about Bay Area nonprofit offers active shooter preparedness courses
‘The Bay Area is broken:’ Why local startups are hiring outside Silicon Valley
By Marisa Kendall | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: April 9, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: April 10, 2018 at 12:43 pm Silicon Valley may be the world’s tech paradise, but it’s a hiring nightmare for many local startups now forced to venture from Portland to Boise in search of talent. Enormous salary expectations — driven by the Bay Area’s soaring cost of living and competition from well-paying giants such as Google and Facebook — have made it too expensive for a growing number of local startups to recruit employees here. Others say the workers they do have want to leave, frustrated by their inability to buy a home as the region grapples with a chronic housing shortage. Want to find more housing coverage and connect with our journalists? Click here to join our new Facebook group Full House: Inside the Bay Area Housing Shortage. Now local startups increasingly are opening satellite operations in cheaper … [Read more...] about ‘The Bay Area is broken:’ Why local startups are hiring outside Silicon Valley