The initiative, which includes $15 thousand to fund the design, purchase and installation of historic building plaques, is aimed at revitalizing and restoring the Tenderloin’s historic identity. The program funds will be used to create an historic museum as well as neighborhood banners and brochures with guides to historic buildings and restaurants in the area.
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For me, the most powerful moment in over four hours of testimony was one that probably passed almost unnoticed for most people. Representatives from the police and the district attorney’s office had just finished over 100 minutes of testimony during which time they got all the time they wanted to tell the supervisors how they all thought this would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. SFPD Chief George Gascón was a no-show, but Assistant Chief Kevin Cashman was ready with a slick PowerPoint presentation (more on that later), followed by a parade of captains in full regalia whose sole purpose seemed to be to show solidarity across the SFPD, as if this was ever in doubt.
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Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos.
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By Art Agnos, former Mayor of San Francisco
October 29, 2009
Proposition D on this Tuesday’s ballot would force a new electronic billboard zone on both sides of mid-Market Street between 5th and 7th streets. The last thing San Francisco needs is a Las Vegas style strip mall […]
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By Ian Fletcher, guest editorial
October 14, 2009
In this November’s election, commercial interests are doing their best to ruin downtown San Francisco. Their primary initiative—Proposition D—would create an exemption to current law and allow them to erect giant, flashing billboards along Market Street, between 5th and 7th Streets.
The Proposition D proposal is a total scam.
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I learned about a new low in corporate greed from Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Capitalism: A Love Story,” which, by the way, I highly recommend. It is called “dead peasants” insurance. Companies take out secret insurance policies on their employees and name themselves as beneficiaries. And we are not talking about key employees since losing their expertise, knowledge and contacts of top managers can be financially devastating for companies. But companies also write policies for rank-and-file employees. When the employee dies, the company, not his or her family, gets the insurance money. In Moore’s movie, Wal-Mart took out a secret policy on a cake decorator, and when she died, Wal-Mart received $80,000, but her family received nothing.
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City College of San Francisco Chancellor Don Griffin.
By Judy B., guest editorial
July 1, 2009
Got a spare $6,000? Chancellor Don Griffin at City College of San Francisco suggests using it to rescue an endangered community college class. Contribute and the class will be named for you.
“If you want to pay for one class at City College, […]
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Michael Moore
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By Michael Moore
June 1, 2009
I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.
As I sit here in GM’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I […]
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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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Adriel Hampton
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From the Campaign to Elect Adriel Hampton to Congress
March 25, 2009
California 10th Congressional District candidate Adriel Hampton (D-Dublin) is calling on Congress to quickly pass Senate Bill 582 to protect consumers and businesses from usury by capping interest rates on credit cards and loans. To build support for the legislation, Hampton […]
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