Now Arizona seeking California companies Remember the item two weeks ago about Colorado loving California so much it wants to adopt some of our companies? Arizona officials are coming Monday, we’re told, “to capture businesses looking to expand out of state.”…

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The last hope to stop General Motors Corp.’s wounded Saturn brand from falling out of the solar system appears to rest with some unknown automaker building cars for the dealers to sell. GM said in its restructuring plan presented to the U.S. government…

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General Motors seeking to shed Saturn

Back in the 1970s, California’s almond industry worried that they would have trouble selling an annual crop that totaled 100 million pounds. The harvest for 2008-09 will come in at 1.6 billion pounds. As you might expect, the industry is still worried. While…

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California almond industry feeling the squeeze

Nationalization. Nobody is sure exactly what the word means, but its mere mention sends shivers up the spine. On Monday, the Dow fell 250 points after some top legislators said the government might have to nationalize banks, at least temporarily. On Tuesday…

What really happens when banks are nationalized

Armed with mega heat guns, a small group gathered on a chilly morning taking aim not at the cold but at thick plastic sheeting draped over a small mountain of construction pipe. Guns blazing, they practiced their technique – long, sweeping strokes – and…

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Shrink wrap plastic now covers more than boats

With one eye cast toward home, giant European energy companies are investing billions in U.S. natural gas and oil fields where huge, hard-to-get reserves have been unlocked with new drilling technology. That technology is the prize in Europe, where gas…

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Europeans seek U.S. energy drilling know-how

Help for workers during downturn The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce is co-sponsoring a discussion Tuesday on how companies can support their workers in the economic downturn. Hosted by Sylvia Allegretto, an economist at the Institute for Research on Labor…

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Sanford Lowengart III was named vice president in the San Francisco office of Heffernan Investment Advisors. He previously owned and managed his own firm. Brian Henri was named a partner at the San Francisco law firm Thomas Whitelaw & Tyler LLP. He previously…

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Businesspeople on the move

Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Company: TMG Partners, San Francisco, commercial and residential real estate development Q: We’ve seen a flurry of recent federal legislation to rescue the economy. Will any of the steps taken so far revive the real…

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Three Questions: Michael Covarrubias

I’ve driven lots of cars. I’ve wallowed like a Russian oligarch pig in the gorgeous mud of a $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron. I’ve spit tailpipe fire across the midnight Mojave at the wheel of a Lamborghini. I’ve brushed gape-mouthed peasants aside with the…

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Honda’s grand, lovely and pricey boondoggle

Sellar’s incentive – $5,000 finder’s fee It’s no longer enough to simply hire a real estate agent or post an ad and wait for your home to sell. Sellers are finding innovative ways to lure potential purchasers, be it the offer of a throw-in Ferrari or…

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Two Berkeley homeowners received checks for their new solar panels on Friday, becoming the first to flip the switch on the city’s much-ballyhooed, closely watched solar financing program. “I’m a guinea pig, but there’s no way I could have afforded solar…

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Bright future as Berkeley starts solar program

Don’t think of the government’s new investment in Citigroup as cash. Think of it as time. Citigroup will save $2 billion a year now that it doesn’t have to pay the government dividends. But what the move really does is give the bank a bit longer to prove…

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Stock deal buys time for gov’t to unwind Citigroup

China and the U.S. wrapped up two days of military consultations Saturday that ended a five-month suspension over American arms sales to Taiwan. China froze such exchanges in October to register its anger over a $6.5 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan that…

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Tomasz Adamek knocked out Johnathon Banks with a flurry of shots midway through the eighth round Friday night to retain his IBF cruiserweight title. Adamek (37-1, 25 KOs), making his first defense after defeating Steve Cunningham for the title in December,…

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Adamek knocks out Banks to retain IBF title