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October 22, 2010
A Kinder, Gentler - and Still Unconstitutional - DADT
The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Absentee Ballots Swamp City Hall
Steve GarfieldPlenty more where that came from...The concept of last-minute get-out-the-vote efforts loses its meaning when a hefty chunk of voters cast their ballots well prior to election day. That's a national trend -- and the hard numbers show San Francisco is no different. As of its last tal ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
Nancy Pelosi's Opponent, John Dennis, Doesn't Want to Privatize Your Sidewalk
Had Pelosi-as-witch been standing on her private property when John Dennis melted her, he'd be in big troubleJohn Dennis, Nancy Pelosi's Republican congressional opponent, informs us that his campaign platform does not include the privatization of America's sidewalks. We don't usually need to poi ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
Election Results Show Tea Party Fails to Gain Traction in Western States
Is that Harry Reid in the middle?Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Don't worry, America. San Francisco knows what's best for you
Is that Harry Reid in the middle?Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
FAIR-y Tales
Is that Harry Reid in the middle?Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Mexican Macroeconomics
Is that Harry Reid in the middle?Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>
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December 20, 2010
DADT Is Dead! Long Live DADT!
On Saturday, following months of gyrations, the U.S. Senate repealed the military ban on open service by gays and lesbians known as Don't Ask Don't Tell.Sort of.This policy has been under heavy scrutiny since the end of President George W. Bush's second term, and promises to repeal DADT were made ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Return to Sender
On Saturday, following months of gyrations, the U.S. Senate repealed the military ban on open service by gays and lesbians known as Don't Ask Don't Tell.Sort of.This policy has been under heavy scrutiny since the end of President George W. Bush's second term, and promises to repeal DADT were made ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
How Would Immigration Reform Look if the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?
On Saturday, following months of gyrations, the U.S. Senate repealed the military ban on open service by gays and lesbians known as Don't Ask Don't Tell.Sort of.This policy has been under heavy scrutiny since the end of President George W. Bush's second term, and promises to repeal DADT were made ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Doyle Drive's Goofy Privatization Deal Stalled By Judge
Will Jerry Brown stop the fiscal insanity? A judge Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order halting Caltrans from signing a finance deal that would let a foreign consortium take over construction and maintenance of part of the Doyle Drive project in the Presidio.This marks the second time i ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Brady Campaign's New Push to Ban Open Carry in California Restaurants
formatted_dad/FlickrThe CA Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is planning a protest Jan. 20 in Manhattan Beach.The Jan. 8 shooting massacre at a Tucson mall is giving new impetus to a drive to make California eateries gun-free zones. State chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Vio ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Tony Winnicker Says 'Farewell' to Everyone but SF Weekly
You don't write, you don't callMayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker has quit his job after working for the last year as former mayor Gavin Newsom's mouthpiece and then Mayor Ed Lee. Will we miss him? Not really, and here is why: He never calls us back!The fact that Winnicker has frozen out SF Weekly ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Ross Mirkarimi Asks Budget Analyst to Make Sure America's Cup Deal isn't Costing Extra
Making sure the deal is even keeled, to use a nautical term Following the approval of the America's Cup deal, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi pledged to follow up with budget reports that would analyze whether the mayor's office has made any tweaks to the deal that would cost taxpayers extra money.&nbs ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
How Chris Daly saved San Francisco from a bad America's Cup deal
Making sure the deal is even keeled, to use a nautical term Following the approval of the America's Cup deal, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi pledged to follow up with budget reports that would analyze whether the mayor's office has made any tweaks to the deal that would cost taxpayers extra money.&nbs ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
A Moderate Move: S.F. Supervisors Try to Lure Twitter with Tax Breaks
Moderately progressiveYesterday was the first real showing of how the political pendulum on the Board of Supervisors has swung the other way -- toward the moderates. Supervisor Jane Kim rolled out business-friendly legislation, which sparked criticism from progressives; even former Supervisor Chr ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
What Questions Do People Really Want Ed Lee to Answer?
Moderately progressiveYesterday was the first real showing of how the political pendulum on the Board of Supervisors has swung the other way -- toward the moderates. Supervisor Jane Kim rolled out business-friendly legislation, which sparked criticism from progressives; even former Supervisor Chr ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
U-Visa: Illegal Immigrants Become Legal Residents Via Crime Victimization
Moderately progressiveYesterday was the first real showing of how the political pendulum on the Board of Supervisors has swung the other way -- toward the moderates. Supervisor Jane Kim rolled out business-friendly legislation, which sparked criticism from progressives; even former Supervisor Chr ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
America's Cup: Ball Is Now in City Attorney's Court
The material everyone wants to have...What are "material changes?" The answer is not immaterial.In tweaking the America's Cup agreement signed off by the Board of Supervisors, the mayor's office was entitled to make changes -- but not material changes.After analyzing the revamped deal, the board' ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
Scott Wiener Wants to Give Supes Power to Repeal Ballot Initiatives
Supervisor Scott WienerSupervisor Scott Wiener says he plans to propose a charter amendment at today's Board of Supervisors meeting that would grant the supes power to amend or appeal ballot initiatives approved by voters -- a step he insists will help reduce the number of such measures San ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary, Catches a Wave Near San Francisco -- on 4/20
Would love to surf the Mavericks, we assumeKeeping the nation from falling into another Depression is not easy feat, and so U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner deserves a little R&R. And while you might expect Geithner's version of taking it easy to be nothing more than reading the finan ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
California Leads The Nation in Imprisoning Criminal Immigrants
10 percent of California's inmates are non-citizens.It's not a winning spot to brag about, but the Golden State is No.1 when it comes to incarcerating criminal immigrants. In fact, California is the only state to break the 100,000 mark. What's worse -- the state is shouldering the majority of the ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Marijuana Prohibition Turns 100 Today. What Is There to Celebrate?
Celebrate the birth of prohibition -- get high!Alcohol prohibition did little to stop Americans from guzzling booze, though it helped make gangsters rich, cops and courts busy, and encouraged foreign imports of "medicinal whiskey" (sound familiar?)That experiment was short-lived -- ratified in ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Economist Writer Talks about Why California Won't Split Up
For those who missed our blog post on it last week, we'll say it again: The Economist correspondent Andreas Kluth's special report on dysfunction in California's government is worth a read. Earlier this week, we attended Kluth's talk at the World Affairs Council on Sutter Street, where he offered ... More >>
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May 4, 2011
List: What Isn't Working in San Francisco
For those who missed our blog post on it last week, we'll say it again: The Economist correspondent Andreas Kluth's special report on dysfunction in California's government is worth a read. Earlier this week, we attended Kluth's talk at the World Affairs Council on Sutter Street, where he offered ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Carlos Santana Criticizes Georgia's New Immigration Law
"Really, Georgia?"Beware, people of states with drastic immigration laws: Santana is angry with you. Days after Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed off on a new Arizona-style regulation, Carlos Santana brought the immigrant-friendly spirit of Bay Area liberalism to baseball's yearly Civil Righ ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Parkmerced Agreement Won't Protect Tenants, Civil Grand Jury Says
Stay tuned for the future ... The Civil Grand Jury has released an interesting and curiously-timed report on the proposed Parkmerced development which validates the city's worst fears -- that tenants would no longer be protected by rent control laws.According to the report -- which was released a ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Assemblymember Paul Fong Talks About the Shark's Fin Ban
Assemblymember Paul FongOn Monday, the California State Assembly voted to pass AB-376, a proposed ban on the sale and import of shark's fin. The ban, which has been publicly condemned by state senator Leland Yee and SF mayor Ed Lee, is intended to prevent the practice of shark finning, which is d ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
San Francisco's $2.8 million Corporate Welfare Tab
Matt Smith illustrationUp with corporate welfare!Gov. Jerry Brown has moved to cut public money thrown at enterprise tax zones, which provide breaks to companies in certain disadvantaged areas, including San Francisco's financial district and SOMA.But San Francisco companies are veritable corpora ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Obama's Drug Czar Refuses to Meet With Cops Seeking End to War on Drugs
No you didn't!In what way is Barack Obama similar to Richard Nixon (aside from ramping up someone else's foreign war)? Turns out common ground can also be found between Tricky Dick and BHO II when it comes to the drug war.A few weeks ago we told you about California NORML unhappily celebrating th ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Amazon.com Goes to War with State of California over Online Sales Tax
Nobody expected that Amazon.com would take kindly to California legislators' decision to force the mammoth web retailer to collect state sales tax. As part of the recently approved, arduously deliberated state budget, California is now requiring out-of-state companies such as Amazon to slap the t ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Majority of San Francisco's Illegal Immigrants Live in the Mission District
Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Jeff Adachi Is Running for Mayor
Joe EskenaziThe pension candidate? In a last-minute maneuver, public defender and pension crusader Jeff Adachi has filled out the paperwork to run for mayor. Adachi -- both a lawyer and a politician -- has, since 2010, answered our queries of whether he'd run for mayor in the following way: "I ha ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Pot Legalization Measure Has Support of Mendocino Growers
Drug Policy AllianceThat's the ideaCan 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 >>
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August 31, 2011
The Billion-Dollar Bet: Which Pension Reform Measure Will Pass and Survive Legal Challenge
Drug Policy AllianceThat's the ideaCan 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 >>
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September 14, 2011
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" HBO Documentary: Free Premiere Tonight
Next Tuesday is a big day for gay and lesbian members of the armed forces. But HBO documentary filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Baily want to celebrate a little early -- with the world premiere of their documentary, The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, tonight at the Castro Theatre a ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Republicans Love Mayor Ed Lee
Ed Lee welcomes support ... from everyone In a liberal bastion like San Francisco, what Democratic candidate would want the support of the Republican Party? Turns out, plenty. Supervisors David Chiu and Ross Mirkarimi, and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier, to name a few. But as far as the ma ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Miracle Faker: Rick Perry's Texas Teaches America the Wrong Lessons
Ed Lee welcomes support ... from everyone In a liberal bastion like San Francisco, what Democratic candidate would want the support of the Republican Party? Turns out, plenty. Supervisors David Chiu and Ross Mirkarimi, and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier, to name a few. But as far as the ma ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Almost Nobody You Know Will Vote For the Next Mayor of San Francisco
Ed Lee welcomes support ... from everyone In a liberal bastion like San Francisco, what Democratic candidate would want the support of the Republican Party? Turns out, plenty. Supervisors David Chiu and Ross Mirkarimi, and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier, to name a few. But as far as the ma ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Record Number of Americans Want to Legalize Marijuana
The new patriotismIt seems that marijuana -- and what people think about it -- is constantly dominating the news, whether it's California's doctors calling for the magic plant's legalization, or the country's law enforcement establishment reminding us it is in fact verboten. Proving that even the ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
The Men Least Likely: A Brief Survey of S.F.'s Worst Mayors
The new patriotismIt seems that marijuana -- and what people think about it -- is constantly dominating the news, whether it's California's doctors calling for the magic plant's legalization, or the country's law enforcement establishment reminding us it is in fact verboten. Proving that even the ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Election Roundup: Ed Lee in the Lead, Proposition C Wins
Will Ed Lee get it done?It will take a few days before San Francisco knows for certain who their next mayor will be, and like we saw in Oakland a year ago, rank-choice voting means anything could happen. But as of Tuesday morning, Ed Lee was in the lead, despite a flurry of allegations of unethic ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
What Will It Take for Ross Mirkarimi to Lose the Sheriff's Race?
Not an easy slide into first placeBarring a miracle, Ed Lee is on his way to becoming the next mayor --it's now the hotly contested sheriff's race that is the one to watch. As of this morning, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi had a narrow, 10 percent lead over Chris Cunnie, securing 38 percent of the vo ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Ed Lee Elected Mayor, Ross Mirkarimi and George Gascón Win Their Seats
Now let's see what we can make him doInterim mayor Ed Lee became San Francisco's first Chinese American elected mayor. After 11 rounds of ranked-choice votes, Lee was declared the winner, garnering 61 percent of the vote. Supervisor John Avalos came in second with 39 percent of the vote, and City ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Occupy Oakland: City Council Turns on Mayor Jean Quan
Quan is quickly learning that being the mayor of Oakland actually kinda sucksMayor Jean Quan is now taking heat from her colleagues at City Hall after a group of city councilmembers did what they say Quan should have done days ago: Marched down to the encampment and demand that police dismantle O ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Public Supports Medical Marijuana, but Not Full Legalization of Pot
growing ... support for the drugJust as local pot clubs have been closing their doors due to a federal crackdown, a new poll was released showing that a growing number of people actually support medical marijuana. According to a CBS news poll conducted at the end of October, 77 percent of people ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Progressively Worse: The Tumultuous Rise and Acrimonious Fall of the City's Left
growing ... support for the drugJust as local pot clubs have been closing their doors due to a federal crackdown, a new poll was released showing that a growing number of people actually support medical marijuana. According to a CBS news poll conducted at the end of October, 77 percent of people ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Mitt Romney Will Win Republicans Over By Teaming Up With Nancy Pelosi
Mitt Romney, looking away at something more interesting than his book.Mitt Romney is all set to be the Republican nominee for president except for one stubborn hitch: Republican primary voters -- like most people -- don't like him, perhaps because he's actually an actor playing a presidential ... More >>
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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 >>
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February 7, 2012
Prop. 8 Appeals Court Ruling: Inside the Dissenting Opinion
Same-sex marriage advocates rejoiced today as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's 2010 decision that Proposition 8, the 2008 California ballot initiative banning gay marriage, is unconstitutional.The decision is almost certainly destine ... More >>
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