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TURN (The Utility Reform Network) is a consumer advocacy organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.In 1972, Sylvia Siegel started TURN in her kitchen to represent consumers before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which she felt was overly focused on the interests of its regulated industries at the expense of consumers. [1]
The People's Warehouse was striving to build a “People’s Food System,” including a network of small community food stores throughout San Francisco. [3] In the summer 1975, Rainbow Grocery opened a storefront on 16th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco. At this time, the People's Food System already had two stores in San ...
The co-op, a member-owned local grocery store on R Street that provides luscious organic produce and a sometimes topsy-turvy salad bar scene, was founded in 1972 as a food-buying club. The club ...
San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA MSA: 4,729,484 $729.105 billion [16] San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA MSA: 1,999,107 $403.513 billion [17] Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA MSA: 2,345,210 $176.276 billion [18] Stockton, CA MSA: 752,660 $40.228 billion [19] Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA MSA: 499,942 $36.877 billion [20] Vallejo, CA MSA: 446,610 ...
California is the first state permitted to provide Medicaid to people behind bars, including those with mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Leaving prison for many means homelessness and ...
Berkeley Co-op logo, as reproduced on a belt buckle, c. 1970s. Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley, informally known as the Berkeley Co-op, or simply Co-op, was a consumers' cooperative based in Berkeley, California, which operated from 1939 to 1988, [1] [2] when it collapsed due to internal governance disputes and bankruptcy. During its height ...
While Expo has historically been an in-person event held in the San Francisco Bay Area, it has expanded to also take place online to include a wider global audience. [6] Notable keynote speakers have included Dr. Jane Goodall, [7] Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, [8] Peter Matthiessen [9] Dr. Claudio Sillero-Zubiri [10] and Dr. Greg Rasmussen. [10]
A majority of California's cities are located in either the San Francisco Bay Area or the Sacramento metropolitan area in Northern California; or the Los Angeles area, the Inland Empire, or the San Diego metropolitan area in Southern California. The Los Angeles Area, the Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area are among several major ...