'We don't bid, or go in for these city contracts, and we don't intend to do it now.'If one attends any meeting, at any time of day or night, at San Francisco's City Hall, one's likely to find buzz-cut shutterbug Luke Thomas taking photographs for his Web site Fogcityjournal.com. His 10,000 monthly readers tune in for inside-inside-local-government stories such as the Jan. 4 headliner "The Case For John Avalos" by Chris Daly, in which Board of Supervisors member Daly used the site to urge his col
There's gold in them thar public notices...A previous post about a resolution under consideration Wednesday by the Board of Supervisors to hand out public notice money to news Web sites closely allied with the board's progressive wing wrongly conveyed the idea that we're talking about chump change. We've since checked the numbers with the controller -- and for Web sites such as FogCityJournal.com and BeyondChron.com, the $50,000 or so annually that a city-designated "outreach advertising" public
'Meeting time, guys.' The strangely nostalgic odor of stale beer wafts through the streets of Potrero Hill as a handful of familiar figures converge on a designated corner. It's the Progressive Apologists, a group of lefty media movers and shakers who have been summoned to a top secret meeting by Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann.
They are assembled at their haunt of choice -- the taco truck down the road from the Anchor Steam brewery. There's Brugmann and his executive editor Tim
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