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Newsom report ties Earthlink Wi-Fi deal
to San Francisco digital inclusion promise

Mayor Gavin Newsom. File photo (10/23/6)
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Tamara Barak, Bay City News Service

January 16, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today released a report outlining the city's efforts to bridge the digital divide that separates its low-income, elderly, and disabled citizens from the benefits of technology.

The report, called the Digital Inclusion Strategy, aims to build on the Jan. 5 deal between the city and Earthlink to offer free wireless Internet access throughout the city.

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Yee appointed Assistant President of State Senate

California State Senaror Leland Yee appointed to the position
of Assistant President pro Tem of the California Senate earlier today.
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Elizabeth Daley, Bay City News Service

January 16, 2007

State Senate President pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, has appointed state Senator Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo to the position of Assistant President pro Tem of the California Senate.

Yee is to preside over state Senate floor proceedings as needed and serve on the Democratic caucus leadership team for the 2007 to 2008 legislative session.

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COURT JESTERINGS

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Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

Court Jester on Josh Wolf and loss of old friends

By h. brown

January 16, 2007

"At midnight on New Year's eve, the prisoners rattled their bars."

(Letter excerpt from Josh Wolf)

My neighbor, Walter, has gotten 3 letters from Josh Wolf since he began writing him a couple of months ago. He says that Josh is feeling a little forgotten and asks that we write him.

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California promises new execution procedure

Photo courtesy Death Penalty Information Center

By Jason Bennert, City News Service

January 16, 2007

California state prison officials said today that they would present a new lethal injection procedure for a federal judge's approval by May 15.

Executions in California have been effectively halted for the better part of a year due to concerns by U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel that the three-drug procedure, known as OP 770, potentially violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment'' because of the possibility that condemned inmates may feel excruciating pain when two of the drugs are administered.

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Federal appeals court orders resentencing
for Millenium Bomber

Ahmed Ressam
Photo courtesy Wikipedia.com

Bay JuliaCheever, City News Service

January 16, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A federal appeals court in San Francisco today ordered a resentencing for a man known as the "Millennium Bomber" for a foiled plot to bomb LosAngeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.

Ahmed Ressam, 39, an Algerian citizen who moved to Canada, trained at an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan in 1998 and early 1999.

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