What are the most popular bus companies in California?|153077

I am trying to plan a few round trips from northern California (Davis) to southern California (San Diego). What bus companies (preferably those with inexpensive fares) - other than the Greyhound and Amtrak - can take me across the state?

Not sure, but I think the only other option would be a charter company.

How can make school reinvent the Mardi Gras theme?|163589

We_re doing a fashion show and might have a Mardi Gras theme. The theme is a little cliche now with the masks and colors but, how could we make it new and refreshing? What can we do different from other Mardi Gras parties? Any ideas or tips?

Mardi Gras is known for its music and the beads. Why not recruit the band department to play traditional music for the models to walk to. The models can throw beads to the audience as they are walking....

You can have all the models wear mardi gras mask. They are different than halloween mask. Have you seen them? There like a piece of art . Check out www.brunacostumes.com for some ideas on masks

Well...it_s Zulu_s 100 year anniversary this year. You can do some research on that Krewe and come up with some fabulous ideas and costumes and _throws_.

Get back to some of the original ideas of Mardi Gras.

It might get controversial though, and the school may not approve.

just use mardi gras colors. Use beads and maybe make second line parade for the something.

How is the job market in the San Francisco Bay Area right now?|134744

I_ve been hearing that there are a lot of people losing jobs in the Bay Area. However, I would like to know how the job market is. Especially in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech fields. Is it as bad as people say it is?

Can anyone tell me how good and bad the job market is in San Francisco Bay Area?

If you have no powerful referral, most time you will not get interview.

Bachelor degree in biotech, average $35K a year. No PhD needed.

The job market in San Francisco, CA is pretty bad right now with people getting laid off and many peoples salary getting cut. A good job in SF that makes good money is a Doctor since there are a few disease outbreaks around.

The people in the pharmaceutical industry are taking there left overs and selling them to the 420 club up in santa cruz those guys will buy anything.

How did Highland park become as bad of an area it is?|133384

It_s worse than the place formerly known as Cabenie Green that used to be in Chicago.

Hamtramack and Highland Park have got to be the worst parts of Detroit.

Why hasn_t anyone given any consideration to cleaning up these places?

Hamtramack and Highland Park are separate cities that happen to be surrounded by Detroit. Detroit has nothing to do with those cities.
I can_t say much for Hamtramack, except there used to be a lot of Polish people there. They had nice stores, and a feeling of safeness.
Highland Park was once a city were the elite lived, you could probably compare it to today_s Birmingham. They had lots of small shops, was where Henry Ford had his first assembly line. Chrysler_s world headquarters were there until the 90_s. The Davison Freeway was the FIRST freeway in the world ( all 2.8 miles of it)
Highland Park is the birthplace of Bill Haley, the artist who first made music that later became known as rock_n_ roll.
The Ford plant gave birth to Hazel Park ( known as a bedroom community) The workers couldn_t afford to live in Highland Park.
My Dad spent the early part of his life in Highland Park, he showed me the house that he grew up in, it was a mansion.
Take a drive through Highlan Park, you can see the once lavish homes.....all wasted.
There is still some industry in Highland Park but 90% of its gone. I don_t know how they exist with no Tax base. What that and those city_s need is major investment.

DRUGS. Plain and simple. Drugs and poverty took over Highland park and turned it into a land of crackheads and prostitutes.

Hamtramck is nowhere near as bad as Highland Park. Both these towns are broke as crap though so they don_t even have the money to clean it up if they wanted to.

Maybe if the Mayor stops getting lawsuits thrown at him, we_d have more money to help these cities out.

No one that lives in Highland Park cares. I don_t know about Hamtramack.
Neither has any industry for a tax base. Any companies that were viable left them decades ago.

When the economy changed in the 1960s people started taking single family homes and turning them into apartments. The people living there didn_t have the right to fix things up (because they were renters) or the money (economic downturn) and things just got worse and worse.

While there are huge problems with drugs and some people don_t care, most of the people there care about their community but don_t have the tax base in the city government to do much about it. There have been recent improvements and development in the area, including a new very nice strip mall with an Aldi.

Hamtramck is a vibrant community with a lot of eclectic shops, etc. It is NOT the worst part of Detroit.

That is solid evidence that political figure heads like Kwame Kilpatrick only cared about the welfare of his own neighbor hood and ignores the needs of the rest of the city.

Let_s just say that the area doesn_t have a very high rate of intellegence.......