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Hoping to protect one of the Bay Area's main water supplies after the next major earthquake, construction crews will soon embark on a job that sounds like something out of a Jules Verne novel: building a massive, 5-mile-long tunnel underneath San Francisco Bay.The project is believed to be the first major tunnel ever built across the bay.Using a giant boring machine, workers will carve a 14-foot high corridor through clay, sand and bedrock from Menlo Park to Newark as deep as 103 feet below the bay floor. They'll then run a 9-foot-high steel water pipe through the middle."All the experts...

The Oakland Tribune plans to vacate the storied Tribune Tower in downtown Oakland in the coming months, three knowledgeable sources said today. The move is part of a sweeping consolidation plan brought about by the MediaNews — the Trib’s parent company – purchase of the Contra Costa Times and the San Jose Mercury News. MediaNews plans to move all business and most advertising staff from its East Bay and South Bay papers to a building it will lease at Bishop Ranch Business Park in San Ramon. According to one well-placed source, Tribune editorial staff, including all reporters, photographers, and editors...

The reports from Almaden Valley are alarming. Coyotes stalking little kids in gated townhouse communities. Sharp-tusked wild pigs rototilling the lawns of million-dollar estates. Foxes, skunks and bobcats turning this suburban paradise into San Jose's own little Wild Kingdom. [...] That's not what Gardner needs to hear right now. ``This is getting to be very scary,'' she said of her nightly visitors. ``It's like Almaden Valley is under attack.''

I can't wait for November 3. Not only will all of the political commercials on television cease, but I'll be celebrating another four years of Bush-Cheney leaders in the White House. I'll also be faced with another four years of whining from my fellow Bay Area residents. The level of hatred Bay Area liberals feel for President George W. Bush is unprecedented. While conservatives were angry about President Bill Clinton's sexual antics in our White House, but nothing compares with how much liberals loathe Bush. Just drive around the Bay Area and read bumper stickers if you want a sense...