Mayor Gavin Newsom has identified projects requiring more than than $1 billion in funds from the projected federal stimulus package, citing worthy money pits such as downtown transit; upgrading the city's water system; airport upgrades; and building sidewalks and sewage ditches at the former Hunters Point naval facility -- slated to become a Lennar-built housing development.However, the request includes no mention of stalled projects to rebuild San Francisco's Calcutta-like public housing projec
Did stimulus really help them?Washington's elected officials and punditocracy have of late been consumed in hashing out the shape of an economic stimulus package. While no love has been lost between Republicans and Democrats in the pit fight over the bill's final shape, both sides say they recognize that some form of government action is needed, and needed promptly. "I can tell you that doing nothing is not an option," President Obama said today during an appearance in the economic disaster zone
Sen. Orrin Hatch's depiction of a Chronicle staff meetingLook, I've been to the San Francisco Chronicle's newsroom. I used to work there when the place was called the Examiner. Now that was a few years back, but I can tell you this: No one wore love beads. Everyone wore a shirt. And the only ones getting stoned on the job were the paste-up guys (I kid, I kid -- he flushed the toilet too fast to get caught red-handed). But if it behooves the representatives of Red America to brand the Chron as a
Truly, Obama can be used to sell anythingBarack Obama's stimulus package may or may not cure what ails this nation. But the other Barack Obama stimulus -- a windfall of presidential merchandising for hucksters of all races, creeds, and colors -- has been a truly American spectacle. When it comes to cashing in on Obama, Yes We Can! Truth be told, however, this level of iconography devoted to a state leader is a bit disturbing; it's more befitting a nation where parades involve grimly marching tro
Funkin for free: Del
Taking a cue from President Obama, our own beloved Hiero hero Del the Funky Homosapien has recorded his own stimulus address. "As we all know, funk is depleting rapidly in America," he says, describing the current musical and cultural crisis affecting this country. "There's a lot of people out here who want to take your funk and use it for their own evil means. For all of you who have been waiting, listening to hip-hop, and been frustrated because of its lack of funk
Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip hit the racks of our sister paper, the Minneapolis City Pages. Here are a few choice passages from Chris Vogel's story about Pickens, as unlikely a figure as ever to be embraced in green, progres
You sure you want to claim credit for that Web site, sir? So, we were perusing Gavin Newsom's Gubernatorial Web site the other day, to see what issues he'd be pushing if he were mayor of San Francisco. The part where the copy claims that Newsom used his experience running a burgeoning wine empire to effectively govern this city did catch our eye -- but not as much as claims of just how transparent city government is (a fun thing to hear from a man with five spokesmen -- who never call us back
That paragon of quality news reporting, Fox, ran a story on its Web site today about two local arts organizations that received federal stimulus funding for "...Saturday night 'pervert' revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco." The two organizations in question are CouterPULSE and Frameline. The National Endowment for the Arts received $80 billion of the $787 billion stimulus package. Of that $80 million, CounterPULSE received $25,000 and Framel
spiffydamnpoodle/FlickrIt's so like that.If you've been hungry for meat lately, indulge your fleshy appetites at a pair of prix-fixe offerings.
First, another Pig Booze dinner goes off tonight between 5 and 10 p.m. at Orson (508 Fourth St. at Bryant, 777-1508). Wallow through a pork belly amuse bouche, a first course of pig's ear with charred escarole and melon, followed by slices from a whole wood-fired pig with Gigantes beans and heirloom tomatoes. Even dessert is porcine -- a pork b
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