The Oakland side of the
Bay Bridge is of a
cantilevered design which
proved faulty in a 1989
quake and problematic
since. The cheap way to
fix the eastern side of
the bridge may not be the
style which has elegantly
survived local
earthquakes
DAVID SIROTA...fighting
the Right-Wing,
Neo-Conservative,
Republican, Outsourcing,
Union-Busting Spin
Doctors who currently are
running America into the
ground..."Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger:
right-wing blowhard
demonizing unions"
Right now my union, UFCW
is negotiating with the 3
major employers in the
Southern California
market. In 2003-04,
Southern California was
the site of one of the
biggest labor disputes in
US history as over 60,000
grocery workers went on
strike.
The federal government --
mostly under the current
administration -- has
fought California in the
courts on issues ranging
from civil liberties to
energy policy
to bio-sciences. Today,
Bush administration
spokespeople insisted
that Governor
