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Newsom exploring fare-free MUNI

Mayor Gavin Newsom (left) with MTA Director Nathaniel Ford (right) rode the MUNI J-line 3/2/7. Newsom, Tuesday, asked transit authorities to consider the possibility
of a free transit system.
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Tamara Barak, Bay City News Service

March 8, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Mayor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said he has asked San Francisco transit officials to explore the possibility of an entirely free, citywide transit system.

"The mayor finds it to be an intriguing idea," his spokesman, Nathan Ballard, said.

Newsom Communications Director Nathan Ballard

Newsom has asked officials at the Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees Muni, to analyze the possibility over the next eight weeks and report back to him, Ballard said.

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Man killed by San Francisco police
may be linked to earlier homicide

By Brent Begin, Bay City News Service

March 8, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - San Francisco police Chief Heather Fong said Wednesday that a man killed by police in the South of Market area may have been attempting to flee a murder scene by forcing two men in a Jeep to drive him away.

Fong said the officer-involved shooting took place around 4:30 a.m. after two officers patrolling the area of Seventh and Townsend streets saw a man leaning over a white Jeep Cherokee.

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Baker's Dozen beating suspect out on bail

Richard Aicardi (center).
Screenshot courtesy KGO-TV/DT

By Brent Begin, Bay City News

March 8, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - The lawyer representing a man who surrendered to San Francisco police Wednesday on suspicion of beating members of the Baker's Dozen choral group said his client was engaged in a drunken fight, not an "unjustified" beating.

Richard Aicardi is the second of two men to surrender in connection to an early New Year's Day incident that left at least three members of the nationally renowned Yale men's choir group bloodied.

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And in other news...

- Members of Down Below Gang sentenced for drug conspiracy

- BART customers complain of filthy trains

FCJ Quote of the Day

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso

"Are we really credible or not? We have been speaking about climate change; now we have an opportunity to take decisions that are really important, not only for Europe but for the rest of the world. Only if we take the initiative are we able afterwards to engage the rest of the world. It's not just about Europe, it's also that we need the United States, we need China, we need India, we need others to come with us."

- EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, 3/8/7