Subject: U.C. Hastings

• SFPUC On the Take, Alleged Bribe-Taker Says

  San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission has long had a "gift policy" in which employees were allowed to accept lavish trips and other presents from suppliers doing business with the city -- or at least that's the claim of a retired city water-meter repairman accused of accepting $13,348 from a vendor who last week was sentenced to prison for bribing city officials.The PUC "was fully aware of, and allowed gifts from parts suppliers and others to be given to employees, including expensive gif

  June 1, 2009

• They Put Up a Parking Lot

  Chris Daly made his rep getting arrested at a garage protest that somehow ended up creating a coffee kiosk

  December 20, 2006

• Asylum for Battered Women -- a Question Raised by a San Francisco Case a Decade Ago -- Gets Obama Administration as an Advocate

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has paved the way for battered women from countries where such abuse is widely accepted to be granted asylum in the United States. The DHS declared its opinion in a court filing of an asylum case of a Mexican woman only referred as L.R., who was denied by a San Francisco-based immigration judge some years back. The filing advocates that the case be further examined by the asylum appellate body, the Board of Immigration Appeals.  San Francisco's star

  July 17, 2009