By Terry Canaan
April 30, 2008
I’ve been ripping on the media lately and not without good cause. We’ve seen what may have been the worst and most uninformative presidential debate of our lifetime. Well, worst and most uninformative to date, anyway. There may not be any lower limit to just how bad television news can make […]
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By Eugene Puryear
April 30, 2008
One of the features of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign that has attracted widespread enthusiasm is the implicit hopeful message that he personifies a new era of reconciliation and unity between Black and white people. But he has decidedly avoided the history and substance of Black national oppression. This dialogue—the real path […]
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Attorneys Gordon Erspamer, Arturo Gonzalez, and Sid Wolinsky
- representing Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth -
discuss their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs with reporters
following a two week trial in San Francisco. The groups are seeking an injunction
to compel the US government to provide the necessary and timely care […]
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Filed under: Law, News
District 11 Candidate for Supervisor Randall Knox.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Randall Knox, special to Fog City Journal
April 30, 2008
The saying goes that we get the government we deserve, and our dissatisfaction with government is one of life’s constants. Whether it’s the President, the Congress, the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, or anyone else on the […]
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An ordinance sponsored by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
that seeks to establish greenhouse gas reduction targets
was given preliminary approval by the Board of Supervisors yesterday.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Ari Burack
April 30, 2008
San Francisco supervisors Tuesday gave preliminary approval to an ordinance seeking to establish enforceable greenhouse gas reduction targets for the city.
The proposed legislation, introduced by Supervisor […]
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Filed under: Environment, News, Politics
By Julia Cheever
April 30, 2008
A retired Presbyterian minister from San Rafael said Tuesday she is “so grateful” the highest court of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. overturned a lower court’s rebuke of her performance of same-sex weddings.
But the Rev. Jane Spahr, 65, said she felt “deep concern” that the court, known as the General […]
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By Caitilin McAdoo
April 30, 2008
If California converted its annual 5.9 million tons of food waste into biogas, it could produce enough energy to supply nearly 75 percent of Bay Area homes with electricity for a year, according to results from a new study conducted by the East Bay Municipal Utility District.
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Filed under: Environment, News
h. Brown
Photo by Luke Thomas
By h. Brown
April 29, 2008
MOCJ offers 250k bribes
Police reform in San Francisco is a casualty of Gavin Newsom’s run for governor. He needs the endorsement of not just the local POA (Police Officers Association) but also of the State prison guards’ union. He ain’t gonna do nothing to offend either group, […]
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District 3 Senator Carole Migden.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Maya Strausberg
April 29, 2008
A resolution that calls for a moratorium on aerial spraying in 12 California counties for the Light Brown Apple Moth unanimously passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on Monday.
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Former Mayor Willie Brown and Elaine Santore at the 32nd annual
Residential Builders Association dinner held Saturday at the swanky Ritz-Carlton.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore
April 29, 2008
Fog City Journal attends RBA annual dinner at the Ritz
Fog City Journal attended the Residential Builders Association 32nd annual dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Saturday night. The place was crawling […]
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