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		<title>Collection Agency Picked On the Wrong Lou Correa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collection agencies and their attorneys file hundreds of thousands of lawsuits every year in California, many of which are filed against debt-free individuals such as Senator Correa with no connection to the original creditor. Incredibly, these lawsuits rarely include the information needed to prove the claim is legitimate, because current law doesn’t require it. Consequently, innocent Californians wind up with a judgment on their record or have their wages garnished because they were sued for someone else’s debt.]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Legitimizes Urban Farming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ordinance allows properly permitted and code-abiding gardeners and farmers to sell any produce they grow directly to the public on site. Growers were previously required to haul their bounty to a third party commercial zone, like a farmers market, or sell through a distributor. The permit does not, however, allow for value-added products, such as pickles or jam, or animal products, such as honey and eggs, to be sold at garden sites in residential areas. These products can, however, be sold on production sites within commercial zones. Growers can apply for a permit through the Planning Department for approximately $350.]]></description>
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		<title>Is the American Psychiatric Association in Bed with Big Pharma?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I am sure research in mental disorders account for some of this increase, I cannot help but believe that there is a certain amount of disease-peddling going on. That is, instead of promoting drugs to treat diseases, diseases are promoted to fit the drugs. For example, shyness as a psychiatric illness made its debut as "social phobia" in DSM-III in 1980, but was said to be rare. By 1994, when DSM-IV was published, it had become "social anxiety disorder," now said to be extremely common, thus, boosting sales of antidepressants. Now, social anxiety disorder is "a severe medical condition." In 1999, the FDA approved a drug for social anxiety disorder. After a successful marketing campaign, the sales of Paxil soared.]]></description>
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		<title>Attention Cell Phone Users: US Chamber of Commerce, Debt Collectors Push Bill to Allow Cell Phone Robo Calls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A “robo-call” is when you answer your phone and hear a recording. These calls are placed by machines that store hundreds, even thousands, of telephone numbers, and then dial them automatically and play a recorded message.]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Conway: Buying Our Democracy and Squashing San Franciscans Like Ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 13, 2011
Last year, Conway gave $35 thousand to the Yes on L campaign to criminalize sitting on a sidewalk.  This year, Ethics Commission filings show that Conway has already spent $218,500 in San Francisco to support various conservative causes.  A San Francisco Bay Guardian article notes Conway has given more than $320 thousand to Republicans since 1999.  Like the Gettys, Warren Hellman, Dede Wilsey, Michael Moritz and the late Donald Fisher, Conway appears to be the latest member of the "1%" class who is spending exorbitant gobs of cash on a San Francisco election.  All this is very interesting, of course, given that Conway is a Palo Alto venture capitalist. ]]></description>
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		<title>Good Government Measure Qualifies for June 2012 Ballot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proponents and volunteers gathered 12,869 signatures in less than five weeks to qualify the initiative, despite operatives from Recology – the holder of the City’s highly lucrative garbage collection monopoly – deploying an expensive media campaign on both network and cable TV and funding a series of allegedly illegal actions to intimidate petition workers, harass petition signers, and buy or steal petition booklets.]]></description>
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		<title>Yee Announces Chinatown Revitalization Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subtext of Yee’s move is viewed as an unsaid challenge to Chinatown powerbroker Rose Pak’s grip on the Chinese-American community in an attempt to weaken her base of support and to garner Asian-American votes for his mayoral bid.]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Party Right-To-Work Laws Designed to Exploit Workers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we need unions anyway? Because they are essential for America. Unions are the only large-scale movement left in America that persistently acts as a countervailing balance against corporate power. They act in the economic interests of the middle, working class. But the decline of unions over the past few decades has left corporations and the rich with essentially no powerful opposition. You may take issue with a particular union's position on an issue, but remember they are the only real organized check on the power of the business community in this country. RTW laws are anti-union, pro-business]]></description>
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		<title>The Toxic Chinese Drywall Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeowners complained of a rotten egg smell in their homes and condominiums. The cause of this foul smelling odor is now known to be caused by gases emitted from the defective Chinese drywall, which can cause significant damage to HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning), smoke detectors, electrical wiring, metal plumbing components, and other household appliances. The gases permeate homes and can cause asthma-like symptoms, eye irritation, bloody or runny noses, headaches, sore throats, nausea, insomnia, and irritability. ]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Should Reject US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The negotiated U.S.-Colombia FTA will give market access for U.S. agricultural, consumer, and industrial products, and will immediately remove all tariffs on about 80 percent of U.S. goods entering Colombia. This includes immediate duty-free treatment of beef, cotton, wheat, soybeans, many fruits, and other agricultural products. The remaining 20 percent of tariffs will be phased out over a period of 10 years for both agricultural products and industrial products. In addition, the agreement provides protections for U.S. investors that will be enforced through a binding international arbitration program.]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club Calls for Environmental Impact Report on AT&amp;T Utility Boxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 01:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This issue is up for a final vote by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.  Up to this point, neither AT&#038;T nor Planning Commission have offered any objective and  transparent review process to ensure that the installation would not block our sidewalks and increase “tagging” right where we walk.]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Lee and Supervisors Form Technology Advisory Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Lee helped convene the group to evaluate how San Francisco’s current tax structure impacts companies’ ability to successfully grow jobs in San Francisco and to propose improvements to the current tax structure, while still ensuring everyone pays their fair share for City services.]]></description>
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		<title>Supes Approve Twitter Tax Holiday Without Community Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The legislation was passed by an 8-3 vote amid concerns of gentrification impacts and without a promised Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) in place. The legislation’s sponsor, Supervisor Jane Kim, who said the legislation would be continued until a CBA had been formulated and ratified by the Board, told FCJ after the Board vote Tuesday the tax exemption legislation is not enforceable until a CBA has been approved.]]></description>
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		<title>SF Progressive Movement Needs a Shot in the Arm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were no protests in the streets the other day when the Board of Supervisors passed, by an eight-to-three vote, legislation to give Twitter and other companies six-year tax breaks to move into the mid-Market/Tenderloin area which could effectively gentrify neighborhoods where the city’s poorest folks (many of them queer, transgender, immigrant and/or of color) currently reside. Three of the eight votes were cast by Supervisors who call themselves “progressives.” (Supervisor Jane Kim, David Chiu and Eric Mar). The three progressives Supervisors who opposed Twitter deal were John Avalos, David Campos, and Ross Mirkarimi.]]></description>
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		<title>SF Unions Rally to Support Wisconsin Workers, Condemn Corporate Greed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rally, organized by the San Francisco Labor Council and part of a nationally coordinated "We are One" AFL-CIO campaign, began at the San Francisco headquarters of Bank of America, terminating at the San Francisco Federal Reserve building after passing by the offices of Chase Bank, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and the Hyatt Regency Hotel along the way.]]></description>
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		<title>Bait and Switch: A Walk Down Twitter Lane (Part Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The corporate hucksters have really piled it on since I wrote my March 23 Fog City Journal article about the Great Twitter Tax Break.  Predictably, once it became clear that our current City Fathers will kowtow to Twitter and give them a multi-million dollar dollop of corporate welfare, every Big Business crony and wanna-be in town has rushed to Silly Hall with their hands out.  And, just as predictably, the majority of our Stupervisors have rushed to greet them, eager to win their favors.]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing and Promotion of Tobacco Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smoking is linked with lung cancer, emphysema, and other diseases. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) each year about 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. And cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion, $97 billion in lost productivity plus $96 billion in health care expenditures.]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Market Payroll Tax Exemption: Downtown&#8217;s Latest Land Grab</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Daly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, the stretch of Market Street between 5th Street and Van Ness Avenue has been a primary target for downtown special interests and their political allies. The slot between the Tenderloin and South of Market’s 6th Street had grown to be more alike its hardscrabble, adjoining neighborhoods than its past as a commercial destination. However, downtown’s plan to renew Market Street was always driven by their desire to line their pockets. With the needs of the neighborhoods not even a consideration, their grand plans to gentrify the area failed to take off.]]></description>
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		<title>Buck Tavern Doubles as Anti-Twitter Tax Exemption Headquarters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The off-the-record confab which barred media coverage, was attended by several well-known figures in San Francisco politics, including Supervisor John Avalos, SEIU organizer Gabriel Haaland,  attorney David Waggoner, a political consultant,  political activists and Daly.]]></description>
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		<title>No Concessions: Hotel Workers Beat Hilton and Blackstone, Fight On</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotel workers have now shown clearly that we can raise the banner of NO CONCESSIONS, fight and win against the biggest of the big.  Like the brave workers in Wisconsin and the Midwest, we are standing tall, and intend to stay on our feet through thick and thin.]]></description>
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