-- Not enough credit card debt in your life? Top-shelf department store Barneys New York will solve that problem after it opens this week. [Chron] -- Health care for uninsured San Franciscans to "expand" next Monday. Woo hoo! [Examiner] -- Cadillac Hotel celebrates 100 years of survival in the TL. [BeyondChron] -- Shot/killed by cops, 20-year-old Naser Solis' parents sue Hayward police department. [Chron] -- Transbay Terminal neighborhood meeting happened tonight. (Our apologies for not......

Trying to figure out what your house is worth in today's real estate market is only slightly less difficult than practicing haruspicy to predict what will happen next week. Articles like JFN6OzQPpdZZs_20061011.html?mod=mktw">the one that appeared in today's Wall Street Journal can only add to that uneasy feeling in the guts of anyone who was counting on their improving equity to bail them out of their adjustable-rate mortgage. According to the research firm Moody's Economy.com, homeowners......

Man, our office is by the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop and we didn't see this. Well, we did overoptimistically think we wouldn't need an umbrella today, so we were a little distracted by the rain to look for folks in orange jumpsuits blocking the street from about 8:15-8:45 a.m. That's right, it's time to protest Bush by tying up traffic again! Seventeen protestors were arrested for blocking an intersection and refusing to comply with police orders,......