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		<title>Minding Muni, Part V</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 08:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All over the country, public transportation systems are cutting back service under the weight of huge budget deficits.  Most people think these agencies are casualties of the recession, and to certain extent they are probably right.  But to me, these agencies and their ballooning deficits are something else also -- they are canaries in the coal mine, indications of problems that go deeper than even the subprime loan fiasco that many are blaming for the current state of the economy.  Collapsing transit agencies are signs that the anti-tax mania of the last few decades is a failure.  They are also signs that our western lifestyle -- dependent as it is on plentiful and cheap natural resources, especially fossil fuels -- could be reaching its limits and going into decline as demand now begins to outstrip supply.]]></description>
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		<title>Minding Muni, Part IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve gotten on a 38L recently and noticed newspapers strewn about, banana peels here and there and graffiti all over the floor from front to back – as I did recently – there’s a reason: in response to ongoing budget deficits, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) cut 14 transit car cleaners on January 25, leaving 84.]]></description>
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		<title>Minding Muni, Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SFMTA – an agency that required $800 million plus annually up until last year – has been suffering budget deficits on and off since 2005. Last year’s deficit reached an initial $128.9 million in February and March. ]]></description>
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		<title>Minding Muni, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerned citizens watch a February 26 meeting of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency which met to discuss Muni service cuts and fare increases to close a $12.1 million budget shortfall in the current fiscal year. Photos by Luke ThomasÂ  By Sue Vaughan March 10, 2010 On Friday, February 26, facing yet another in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minding Muni</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muni drivers have incredibly hard jobs.  They sit in the same position for hours and take all kinds of abuse from the public.  They deserve to be paid well.  At the same time, they are not completely blameless.  Perhaps the work rules do need to be tightened up, but the general public should be clear: getting changing operator work rules will bring back some money to the agency - but $15 million is not enough.]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Responds to US Government Reluctance to Defend CIA Torture Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Susan Vaughan July 6, 2009 American Civil Liberties Union lawyers representing five victims of a US government clandestine extraordinary rendition and torture program, filed its response yesterday to US Justice Department lawyers seeking to block litigation of plaintiffs&#8217; civil suit against Jeppesen Dataplan, a subsidiary of Boeing. The suit, filed in 2007, claims Jeppesen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Judge Issues Mixed Rulings in Warrantless Wiretapping Cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A secret room in the offices of AT&#38;T in San Francisco where internet and phone data is allegedly being surveiled by the NSA without warrants or subpoenas. By Susan Vaughan June 5, 2009 A federal district court judge dealt a blow to dozens of plaintiffs Wednesday in a warrantless wiretapping case while providing a lifeline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Ain&#8217;t So, Chiu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 19:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supervisor David Chiu threatened the use of a procedural motion to reject the SFMTA&#8217;s proposed fare hikes and service cuts due to a $129 million SFMTA budget shortfall, but then renegged yesterday by tabling his own motion. Photos by Luke Thomas By Susan Vaughan May 13, 2009 I spent a better part of 48 hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Appeals Court Reverses States Secrets Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Susan Vaughan April 28, 2009 In a partial victory for five men subjected to extraordinary rendition and torture, a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously reversed today a lower District court ruling that denied rendition abductees the right sue to Jeppesen Dataplan for its role in aiding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extraordinary Renditions: No Hope for Change in Obama Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Susan Vaughan February 10, 2009 A panel of judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments in a detainee abuse case Monday that tested the degree to which the Obama administration will depart from the practices of its predecessor. To the disappointment of civil liberties groups, United States Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New CEQA Guidelines Expected to Shift Transportation Priorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image courtesy U.S. Department of Transportation. By Susan Vaughan January 23, 2009 San Francisco environmentalists and sustainable transportation advocates have entered a period of cautious optimism &#8211; the state of California is finally getting ready to tell communities that they should disregard previous automobile-centric guidelines, called level-of-service or LOS, when complying with environmental provisions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Palast, Van Jones and Kevin Danaher Headline San Francisco Green Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Vaughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author/Journalist Greg Palast discusses election fraud during a keynote speech at the 2008 Green Festival in San Francisco. Photos by Luke Thomas By Susan Vaughan November 18, 2008 Think that we, as a nation, have turned a corner since the November 4 election, and entered a new era of hope and change? Well, don&#8217;t hit [...]]]></description>
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