Speaker Pelosi Heckled During Press Conference
Asked Why She Refuses to Debate Opponents

By Luke Thomas
October 31, 2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was interrupted during a press conference earlier today and asked why she refuses to debate her opponents in the race for the eighth congressional district.
Pelosi was speaking to media at the law offices of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold to urge California voters to approve Proposition 1A.
Suddenly, […]

 

The Other Side of the Story

By Terry Canaan
October 31, 2008
Let’s take a look at the economic situation. Never mind the naysayers, the gloom-and-doomers, the glass-half-empty types, some of us are doing just fine. If you look hard enough and long enough, you can find good, simple, hard-working Americans who are managing to get along. Good people, with good, honest […]

 

The End of Prosperity

By Stephen Lendman
October 31, 2008
From too much of a good thing. From the 1980s and 1990s excesses. From the longest ever US bull market. Heavily manipulated to keep it levitating. From August 1982 to January 2000. An illusory reprieve from October 2002 to October 2007. Fluctuations aside, all lost in the past 12 months. The […]

 

Brugmann Blasts San Francisco Chronicle, PG&E

By Luke Thomas
October 30, 2008
San Francisco Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann yesterday blasted Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for its efforts to buy the November election and took aim at the San Francisco Chronicle for its “complicity” in providing cover to the utility company.
“Why does a major metropolitan newspaper not cover the biggest urban […]

 

Political Paradigm Shift? Not in Newsom’s San Francisco

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Marc Salomon
October 29, 2008
While the Democratic Party has followed Barack Obama and embarked in an historic shift away from DLC Clintonism, San Francisco’s local franchise, retrograde as always, seems determined to carry Hillary’s triangulation torch while throwing in a dash of McCain/Palin economics for good measure.
While Obama […]

 

How Did The Green Vote Grow?
Bay Area Representatives
Cast Significant Percentage of Green Votes

From California Sierra Club
October 29, 2008
SACRAMENTO – Some Bay Area representatives voted sustainably, while others voted against California’s air, water and wild places, Sierra Club California’s annual Legislative Report Card finds.
Sierra Club California tracked the votes of California’s Assemblymembers and Senators, recording each Earth-friendly vote as a positive score. From toxics prevention to water conservation […]

 

The Newsom Era Ends With A Whimper

 
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
File photo by Luke Thomas
By Milkcluber

October 28, 2008
Republican presidential John McCain got a surprising endorsement for his economic recovery strategy last week. It came when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom copied McCain’s plan for a San Francisco version combining tax breaks for business, layoffs of city workers, and fast-tracking billion dollar […]

 

The CrackBerry Chronicles:
The Lady of Stow Lake

Elaine Santore
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore

October 28, 2008
In the daytime, Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park looks idyllic and serene. But nighttime is a whole different story: the calm waters hold secrets from the dearly departed who have broken on through to the other side.

The waterfall at Stow Lake.
Photo by William Buckley via […]

 

Star Witness Pleads Fifth
Over Evidence Tampering Complaint

Supervisor Sean Elsbernd aide, Olivia Scanlon.
File photo by Luke Thomas
Case Against Hall Evaporates When Aide to Sup. Sean Elsbernd
Refuses to Answer Questions About Allegedly Forged Campaign Documents
By Frank Gallagher
Editor’s Note: Mr. Gallagher is former District 7 Supervisor Tony Hall’s former campaign manager who testified during yesterday’s Ethics Commission hearing, held to investigate alleged campaign finance […]