Measure E Provides Money for Tech Upgrades

Sara Duplancic, Staff Writer
March 11, 2011

In November 2008, the Acalanes Union High School District passed Measure E, a 10-year technology fund intended to upgrade, replace, and enhance classroom technology and infrastructure. The Measure issued $93 million in bonds, which has been used to install new or improved wireless servers and... (more...)

It Was Good While It Lasted, LimeWire

Sara Duplancic
December 3, 2010

Say goodbye to all your excuses for pirating music. For record companies, it’s been a long and expensive road, but a four-year legal battle between LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ended in late October, leaving LimeWire permanently shut down. But with online... (more...)

What’s This Cotton Candy Doing on My Salmon?

Sara Duplancic
November 5, 2010

It’s not a gimmick. Seafood wrapped in cotton candy and liquid nitrogen as a staple ingredient sound impossibly hard for the taste buds to process, but pioneering Chef Jose Andres will take you on a savory tour where the kitchen meets the laboratory, featuring an avant-garde cooking technique,... (more...)

U.S. Troops Heading Home

Sara Duplancic
October 1, 2010

After seven and a half years of U.S. military occupation in Iraq, American troops finally slated to come home The United States’ seven-year occupation of Iraq is officially over as of Sept. 1, 2010. President Obama, in an Aug. 31 Oval Office address, formally discontinued U.S. combat operations.... (more...)

Chilean Miners Await Rescue Mission