California’s economic crisis is forcing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
to impose catastrophic budget cuts to life-sustaining social safety net programs,
cuts that will greatly impact the most vulnerable in society.
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Ralph E. Stone
May 31, 2009
No one disagrees that we are in a severe recession. But I fear that in the stampede to balance the […]
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Filed under: Economy, Healthcare, Homelessness, Housing, Opinion, Politics
By Jill Chapin
May 29, 2009
Proposition 8 has been upheld in California to legally prevent two people in love from marrying each other, for the sole reason that they share the same genitalia. Don’t you find it peculiar that laws are in place to prevent some people from enjoying the full spectrum of – loving?
I can […]
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Filed under: Culture, Law, Opinion, Politics, Religion
By Dennis Markatos-Soriano, American Forum
May 28, 2009
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission director Jon Wellinghoff recently stated that the U.S. may not need any new coal or nuclear power plants. Due to our tremendous renewable energy potential, the rising challenge of global warming, and the high cost of new conventional plants, I think he’s right.
The U.S. can […]
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Filed under: Business, Economy, Energy, Environment, Land Use, Opinion, Technology
Artiste Helaine Gawlica stood on the ledge
of the Martin Luther King Memorial
at Yerba Buena Gardens during an evening
rally following the California Supreme Court’s
decision that upheld Proposition 8.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
May 27, 2009
Yesterday’s decision by the California Supreme Court to uphold the ban on same-sex marriage set off a flurry of reaction, most of […]
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Tenth Congressional District candidate
Adriel Hampton with his first son, aged 4,
at the Lafayette Hillside Memorial on Memorial Day.
Photo by Jeremy Maurer
By Adriel Hampton
May 25, 2009
Remarks for the Memorial Day vigil at the Crosses of Lafayette:
In 1976, fictitious newsman Howard Beal in the film “Network” told America, “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. […]
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Filed under: Opinion, Religion, War
Mind the MTA budget gap: Swing vote Supervisor Sophie Maxwell took a bold step Tuesday
when she joined her Progressive colleagues and voted for a continuance of the MTA budget.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Hope Johnson
May 22, 2009
For the sake of the greater good, I’ll admit it: I have a crush on Muni.
Well, public transit in general, […]
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Filed under: Economy, Opinion, Politics, Transportation
From Judicial Council of California
Editor’s Note: For an analysis of how the Supreme Court might rule, check out Melissa Griffin’s excellent summary.
May 22, 2009
San Francisco—The California Supreme Court today announced that it will issue a written opinion in three cases challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. […]
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Filed under: Culture, Law, News
By John Han
May 22, 2009
The California Air Resources board shed some light Thursday on the “challenges, lessons, and opportunities” for creating California’s clean energy future. The event in San Francisco came just days after President Barack Obama proposed groundbreaking federal regulations requiring U.S. car manufacturers to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by the […]
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Filed under: Energy, Environment, Events, Law, News, Politics, Technology
By Stephen Lendman
May 22, 2009
At a time of corporate dominated media, a free and open Internet is democracy’s last chance to preserve our First Amendment rights without which all others are threatened. Activists call it Net Neutrality. Media scholar Robert McChesney says without it “the Internet would start to look like cable TV (with a) […]
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Filed under: Media, Opinion, Technology
