Subject:

Domestic Policy

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    #OpCannabis: Anonymous Pushing Marijuana For 4/20

    Not every innocuous schoolboy joke becomes a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but this one -- 4/20, 4-20, four twenty -- has had legs since it began 41 years ago at San Rafael High in Marin County.This year, the universal code for marijuana use is being co-opted by everyone's favorite "hacktivist" col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Marijuana Legalization Measure Courts Billionaires for Vital Campaign Cash

    Close. But close enough?​Regulate Marijuana Like Wine, a marijuana legalization measure vying to get onto the November ballot, has only $80,000 in cash on hand, according to finance records. But in a poll released this week, it had potential support from 62 percent of likely voters -- and that, ba ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 1, 2012

    Free-Market Biological Warfare

    Close. But close enough?​Regulate Marijuana Like Wine, a marijuana legalization measure vying to get onto the November ballot, has only $80,000 in cash on hand, according to finance records. But in a poll released this week, it had potential support from 62 percent of likely voters -- and that, ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Makes for Sober, Safer Drivers, Study Says

    ​While medical marijuana advocates will politely ask them to stop talking whenever the subject arises, there are many cannabis users who will claim that the task of operating a motor vehicle is safer when the driver is a bit stoned. Turns out that researchers crunching traffic data from 13 states ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Minhaz Kahn, DREAM Act Eligible Student, Spared Deportation -- For Now

    No deportation for Minhaz Kahn. But others might not be so lucky. ​A DREAM-Act-eligible recent college grad won reprieve on his deportation case earlier this week, yet the celebration ends there. San Francisco-based immigration officials warned attorneys that not all DREAM Act-eligible immigrants ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Lawyers Challenge Feds to Bust All Pot Dispensaries or Bust None

    Pretty sure Hamilton was a pot head ​It's rarer these days, but you can still find some medical marijuana purveyors fond of saying how much they welcome the federal government throwing them in prison for decades. Each dispensary in San Francisco, for example, violates the Controlled Substances Act ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Pot Legalization Measure Has Support of Mendocino Growers

    Drug Policy AllianceThat's the idea​Can Protections for Medical Patients Help Succeed Where Proposition 19 Failed?Cannabis advocates promised they'd be back at the California ballot following marijuana legalization measure Proposition 19's historic failure in November 2010 (the measure received mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    FCC Narrows Inquiry Into KUSF 90.3 FM Sale

    KUSF friends enjoying a gentler time​The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to narrow its request for documents from the University of San Francisco, as the regulator investigates the transaction that turned KUSF from community radio programming to a classical music format."With this lat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    KUSF Sale: FCC Wants to Sweat the Details

    Chris StevensKUSF supporters at a hearing on the station's closure earlier this year.​ Doesn't look like the FCC is going to just rubber-stamp USF's sale of the beloved community radio station KUSF. In a letter yesterday, the FCC's audio honcho asked to see all the documents generated in the ... More >>

  • News

    June 22, 2011

    H1-B Visa Program Creates Caste System for Silicon Valley

    Chris StevensKUSF supporters at a hearing on the station's closure earlier this year.​ Doesn't look like the FCC is going to just rubber-stamp USF's sale of the beloved community radio station KUSF. In a letter yesterday, the FCC's audio honcho asked to see all the documents generated in the ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Clean Energy Stimulus Cash Is Slow to Be Spent

    Chris StevensKUSF supporters at a hearing on the station's closure earlier this year.​ Doesn't look like the FCC is going to just rubber-stamp USF's sale of the beloved community radio station KUSF. In a letter yesterday, the FCC's audio honcho asked to see all the documents generated in the ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    Chris StevensKUSF supporters at a hearing on the station's closure earlier this year.​ Doesn't look like the FCC is going to just rubber-stamp USF's sale of the beloved community radio station KUSF. In a letter yesterday, the FCC's audio honcho asked to see all the documents generated in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Gavin Newsom: Friend or Foe of Illegal Immigrant Youth?

    Friend of students, foe of alleged felons.​Update: Newsom's spokesman responds. Read below.  Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has come out today supporting a group he threw the book at during his time as San Francisco mayor: illegal immigrant youth. Newsom has sent a letter to Assemblyman Gil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    KUSF Staff Files Petition to Block Sale of Radio Station

    KUSF needs the FCC to listen​We had almost gotten used to the idea that KUSF would not longer be the indie college radio station we had known. But the station's staff reminded us this week when they filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission, officially asking it to block the sale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Gay Binational Couples Fighting Deportations On Obama's New DOMA Stance

    ​Gay couples are already using President Obama's new stance against the Defense of Marriage Act as a weapon to fight deportations of their foreign spouses. The couples hope that the administration's declaration last week that the law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman is uncon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    A Valentine's Day Fact -- STDs Are on the rise in San Francisco

    Sexy time stats​Leave it to the San Francisco Public Health Department to use Valentine's Day as a way to get people to not want to have sex.Health officials decided to use this hallmark holiday to tell us the hard, cold truth about our Valentines -- they aren't so pure after all. As it turns out, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    USF Faculty Asks University to Cancel Sale of KUSF

    Even teachers and librarians like music​The University of San Francisco is already feeling the pressure from the community to back off the sale of the college radio station, KUSF. There have been protests, rallies, and even the city's politicians are supporting the student body in its effort get i ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2010

    The Mad Quest of Mr. Wu

    How a wannabe banking magnate from S.F. built an empire on deception.

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Mexican Macroeconomics

    How a wannabe banking magnate from S.F. built an empire on deception.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    R.E.M., The Roots, and a Bunch of Waffles Tell Feds To Preserve Net Neutrality

    R.E.M. loves net neutrality! ​A group of musicians that includes R.E.M., Jackson Browne, The Roots, Moby, and OK Go has sent a letter to the FCC urging legal protection for net neutrality, the principle (and current reality) that all information can travel equally quickly on the Internet.The FCC i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Sierra Club Sues EPA For Not Enforcing Clean Air Act

    Trouble in paradise?​Two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in San Francisco, asserting the EPA did not adequately enforce provisions of the Clean Air Act.The lawsuit, filed yesterday by the Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardian ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Legalize Marijuana, Says Former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara

    'We're doing far more damage with the war against marijuana than any good that could possibly be coming out of it,' says the chief​Ask former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara when he began to support the notion of legalizing marijuana, and you don't get a short answer. It began half a century ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    Worlds Apart

    Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Guardian Editor: How Dare You Call Me Anti-Tax?

    The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond today called us with some spirited criticism of an item we ran last week stating the paper's editors would personally benefit from Prop. 13 legislation they endorsed.In the item, we noted that the paper had endorsed Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's AB 2492, whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Great Moments in Marijuana History: Ammiano's Legalization Bill Up For Vote Today

    ​In a move proponents are billing the "first formal consideration of marijuana legalization in American history," the public safety committee of the state assembly will today vote on Tom Ammiano's ganja bill. The San Francisco assemblyman last year earned his place in the pot pantheon by authoring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Chronic City: It's Obvious -- State Medical Association Says Pot Prohibition Is 'Failed Public Health Policy'

    The November CoalitionDrug War protester at Huntington Beach, Calif.​In a laudable nod to the obvious, members of the California Medical Association's (CMA) House of Delegates have endorsed a resolution stating that the criminal prohibition of marijuana is a "failed public health policy."As enacte ... More >>

  • Music

    November 11, 2009

    Pirate Cat Radio slapped with hefty fine, pushed off the FM dial

    The November CoalitionDrug War protester at Huntington Beach, Calif.​In a laudable nod to the obvious, members of the California Medical Association's (CMA) House of Delegates have endorsed a resolution stating that the criminal prohibition of marijuana is a "failed public health policy."As enacte ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2009

    Transit Spotting

    A transportation activist points to inefficient and costly projects like the Central Subway.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Nurses, Public Health Advocates: What Good Is Universal Health Care if You Have to Sit All Day in the Waiting Room?

    The doctor will be seeing you ... sometimeTo many, the city's aggressive adoption of the Healthy San Francisco universal health care plan while simultaneously applying draconian cuts to the Department of Public Health's workforce and budget feels a bit like giving everyone a free pass to the amuseme ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2008

    SF Weekly Letters

    The doctor will be seeing you ... sometimeTo many, the city's aggressive adoption of the Healthy San Francisco universal health care plan while simultaneously applying draconian cuts to the Department of Public Health's workforce and budget feels a bit like giving everyone a free pass to the amuseme ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2008

    SF Weekly Letters

    The doctor will be seeing you ... sometimeTo many, the city's aggressive adoption of the Healthy San Francisco universal health care plan while simultaneously applying draconian cuts to the Department of Public Health's workforce and budget feels a bit like giving everyone a free pass to the amuseme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

    FCC Holding Public Hearing at Stanford this Week

    The doctor will be seeing you ... sometimeTo many, the city's aggressive adoption of the Healthy San Francisco universal health care plan while simultaneously applying draconian cuts to the Department of Public Health's workforce and budget feels a bit like giving everyone a free pass to the amuseme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Fox to FCC: Fuck You and Your Fleeting Expletive Rules

    The doctor will be seeing you ... sometimeTo many, the city's aggressive adoption of the Healthy San Francisco universal health care plan while simultaneously applying draconian cuts to the Department of Public Health's workforce and budget feels a bit like giving everyone a free pass to the amuseme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Porn, Pirate Bay Likely Topics in Prof Timothy Wu vs. AT&T's Richard Clarke Symposium Saturday

    The doctor will be seeing you ... sometimeTo many, the city's aggressive adoption of the Healthy San Francisco universal health care plan while simultaneously applying draconian cuts to the Department of Public Health's workforce and budget feels a bit like giving everyone a free pass to the amuseme ... More >>

  • News

    December 26, 2007

    Double Payer

    SF is out of the health-care business if the governor's new plan goes through.

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    Unintended Evictions

    An attempted solution to rental evictions may actually force more people out of rent-controlled apartments in an already tight San Francisco housing market

  • Music

    January 5, 2005

    Meow Mix

    Tune in, turn on, say "fuck": This is the story of a man named Monkey and his very special Pirate Cat Radio

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    Bugging Out

    The feds hold up germ experiments at Los Alamos National Lab

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    The Tax Man Cometh

    The federal government looks to eliminate abusive tax shelters, and it may cost San Francisco tens of millions of dollars

  • Music

    June 27, 2001

    The FCC wants to shut down "Your Revolution"

    The revolution will not be televised, or broadcast, or even relayed via smoke signals.

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    The Great Minnow Hunt

    Why did the U.S. Attorney's Office angle for fingerlings -- and apparently ignore trophy catches -- during its corruption investigation at the San Francisco Housing Authority?

  • News

    August 23, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    A City With a Serious Wait Problem; The Case for Printing Less-Controversial Stories

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    Buffy the Empire Slayer

    Chronicle Publishing petitions the FCC -- but why?

  • Music

    November 5, 1997

    Riff Raff

    Chronicle Publishing petitions the FCC -- but why?

  • Calendar

    April 2, 1997

    Unspun

    Chronicle Publishing petitions the FCC -- but why?

  • News

    March 5, 1997

    Taking Howard Stern Seriously

    Chronicle Publishing petitions the FCC -- but why?

  • News

    February 12, 1997

    Desperately Seeking Citizenship

    With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

  • Calendar

    December 11, 1996

    Mulch

    With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

  • News

    June 28, 1995

    Conscientious Injectors

    The enforcement of drug laws should be less hurtful than the dangers inherent indrug use itself, say the "harm reductionists" at Prevention Point, who practice what they preach by distributing 1.5 million needles to the city's drug users

  • More >>
VOICE Daily Deals
for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This

About Us | Media Kit | Work for SF Weekly | Esubscribe | Free Classifieds | SF Weekly Advertising | National Online Advertising | Mobile | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Site Problems? | RSS | Site Map
© 2012 SF Weekly, LP, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
avatar
Newsletters | Mobile
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy