9 Feb 2012 at 1:47pm A new report released this morning shows that Outside Lands generates more than $67 million for the local economy (about $60 million of that going to SF alone). The report, authored by San Francisco State University, also shows that the music festival created 756 jobs.? [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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9 Feb 2012 at 1:31pm SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- - San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival brings artists and festival fans from around the world to the Bay Area -- and with them an influx of income to San Francisco, its ...
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7 Feb 2012 at 2:00am This was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University and author of a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal . By Mark Phillips Read full article >>
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7 Feb 2012 at 1:01am Living as a minority can be hard ? living with AIDS is even harder. But Andrew Jolivette, an associate professor and department head in American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, said colleges can help eradicate stigmas by offering more programs and organizations addressing AIDS.
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3 Feb 2012 at 10:58am The campus bookstore at San Francisco State University was bustling last week. A long line snaked through the aisles, as students waited to pay for this semester?s books. Junior Gloria Keane guessed that her tally for five classes would be $600. ?It gets worse every year,? said Keane, who works a full-time job to pay for school. ?You have to push every limit you have to get these books. And it?s ...
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26 Jan 2012 at 1:13pm ( San Francisco State University ) Psychologists have found that buying experiences makes people happier than possessions, but who spends their spare cash on experiences? Extraverts and people who are open to new experiences are more likely to make a habit of "experience shopping" and are happier as a result, according to research published today in the Journal of Positive Psychology. The ...
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19 Jan 2012 at 8:43pm Writer and Sonoma State Professor emeritus Gerald Haslam met S.I. Hayakawa in 1963, when Haslam was enrolled in Hayakawa's graduate seminar on semantics at San Francisco State University . In the latest issue of Boom: A...
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