By Luke Thomas
February 27, 2009
ING Bay to Breakers and Mayor Gavin Newsom released a statement today outlining revised policies for this year’s race.
The new policy requires all wheeled objects and floats to be registered for the race. Float registration is free.
Participants, however, are “encouraged” to register for the race to help offset increased costs related […]
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Filed under: Culture, Events, News
By Luke Thomas
February 27, 2009
District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly said today he is open to considering a location in his district for the development of Gap Founder Don Fisher’s contemporary art museum (CAMP).
Fisher, who is committed to erecting his museum in the historic Presidio national park, faces an uphill battle in overcoming a ground swell […]
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Filed under: Land Use, News, Politics
From the Presidio Historical Association and Save The Presidio
February 27, 2009
The Presidio Trust Historical Association, a nonprofit group that has spearheaded the effort to keep a large, contemporary art museum, hotel and theater off the historic Main Post of the Presidio of San Francisco, today objected to the latest actions of the federal agency charged […]
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Filed under: Land Use, News
By Fanny Dassie
February 27, 2009
U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup said yesterday the trial in the case of Dhaliwal vs. San Francisco Zoological Society would begin January 11, 2010 unless lawyers are able to reach a pretrial settlement.
The case refers to the December 25, 2007 escape of a Siberian tiger from its habitat at the […]
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Filed under: Law, News
Alix Rosenthal
By Alix Rosenthal, special to Fog City Journal
February 27, 2009
I’m not running for District 8 Supervisor. There, I said it.
And while the election is 21 months away, it’s already getting hot in here.
This is going to be the biggest Supervisor race in 2010. The district includes the Castro, Noe Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, […]
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Filed under: Law, Opinion, Politics
Republican billionaire and Gap Founder Don Fisher.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
February 26, 2009, 2:00 pm
Architectural renderings depicting an amended conceptual design of Gap Founder Don Fisher’s art museum proposal have been released exclusively to the San Francisco Chronicle, a Fog City Journal inquiry has revealed.
The renderings will become part of a much-anticipated Presidio Trust […]
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Filed under: Land Use, News
By Luke Thomas
February 25, 2009
Why would a supervisor whose district is directly impacted by an important transportation project not want to serve on the commission with jurisdiction over that project?
That’s the question Supervisor Chris Daly raised yesterday during a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors when District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier formerly requested […]
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Filed under: News, Politics, Transportation
Hope Johnson
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Hope Johnson
February 24, 2009
Keepin’ it reel
Greetings you commie, homo-loving, FCJ readers!
Ask around before drafting ‘eff-you, be more PC’ letters to FCJ. It’s a tribute to a well-deserved Oscar, okay? AYSOS?
Read on at your own peril, folks.
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Filed under: Opinion, Politics
President Barack Obama today praised the City of San Francisco
for providing universal health care coverage to uninsured residents,
an effort spearheaded by then Supervisor Tom Ammiano
and supported by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
File photo by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
February 20, 2009
Mayor Gavin Newsom received a boost in his gubernatorial bid earlier today when President Barack Obama praised the […]
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Filed under: Healthcare, News, Politics
