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SF Weekly Letters

SF Weekly Letters

SF Weekly Letters

State Cuts Cal Grant Funding for Many For-Profit Schools

It took a destructive recession and a budget deficit even MC Hammer finds ridiculous, but California has slowed down the flow of tax-payer money to for-profit colleges. Yesterday, the California Student Aid Commission announced a sharp decrease in the number of schools eligible for Cal Grants: fo ... More >>

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Shit-Shoveling Left Off Politician's Official Bio, Oddly Enough

Chris Parker definitely can tell you-know-what from Shinola...​Our introduction to Chris Parker began with shit. The Franchise Tax Board attorney and candidate for the state's board of equalization happened to mention his long years' experience shoveling the stuff to Assembly whip Fiona Ma during ... More >>

Our Favorite Twittering Politician Tweets About Shit Once Again

Fiona Ma​Three times equals a trend -- that's the journalistic maxim. Well, we now have a trend -- plus once. Assemblywoman Fiona Ma has fired off her fourth tweet about excrement -- and there was much rejoicing. Ma, you may recall, earlier tweeted out a jarring message that her dinner acquaintanc ... More >>

Politician With Propensity to Tweet About Fecal Matter Chides SF Weekly: We Forgot a Shitty Tweet!

Fiona Ma, she of the "bat guana" Tweet​Last week, we once again ventured into the surreal world of Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's Twitter feed -- where you should watch where you step. The former San Francisco supervisor has demonstrated a remarkable tendency to Tweet the shit, so to speak -- the subjec ... More >>

Fiona Ma, Our Favorite Twittering Politician, Casually Tweets About Beasts' Explosive Diarrhea

Fiona Ma's Tweets are getting a bit, shall we say, Freudian​Following Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's Twitter feed is sort of like panning for gold. Most of the time you're not finding anything that'd inspire a prospector's jig, but every once in a while -- score! And that makes it all worth the while. T ... More >>

What Crazy Shit -- Literally -- Is Fiona Ma Tweeting About Now?

Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's Tweets make us happy -- but perhaps not in the manner she intended ​Fiona Ma, you never disappoint us -- on Twitter. We make a point of checking the San Francisco Assemblywoman's Twitter feed at least twice a month. So far, we have never failed to find some manner of bizar ... More >>

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