{"id":1608,"date":"2003-12-10T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T03:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/12\/10\/1608.html"},"modified":"2003-12-10T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T03:25:47","slug":"local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/12\/10\/local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Local news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two unrelated news items from yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here in Mountain View, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/business\/7457552.htm\">AOL has laid off about 400 employees<\/a>, including my friend S, who'd survived the last round of layoffs (in which AOL got rid of most of the people who'd been working on Netscape).<\/li>\n<li>Up in San Francisco, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2003\/12\/10\/MNGQV3IVM61.DTL\">Democrat Gavin Newsom won the mayoral runoff election<\/a> against Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez.  I'm not too surprised by that; what surprises me is that the race was rather close.  Although only 3% of registered San Francisco voters are Greens, Gonzalez got 47% of the vote, losing by only about 13,000 votes.  And that's after Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and former mayor Willie Brown all endorsed and campaigned for Newsom.  About 51% of SF's registered voters voted in this election; that's more than voted in the original election that this was a runoff for.  (Meanwhile, in the other runoff election in SF, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/12\/10\/SFDA.TMP\">Kamala Harris beat incumbent Terence Hallinan<\/a> (apparently known as \"America's most progressive district attorney\") to become the first female district attorney in San Francisco, and the first African-American DA in California, and the first female Indian-American DA in the US. I don't know enough about either candidate to have an opinion on that race.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two unrelated news items from yesterday: Here in Mountain View, AOL has laid off about 400 employees, including my friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}