By Patrick Monette-Shaw, special to Fog City Journal
July 20, 2008
The growth in management fat in San Francisco city government goes unabated, driven by Mayor Gavin Newsom and rubber-stamped by the Board of Supervisors.
Even while the Board of Supervisors are attempting to mitigate draconian cuts in Newsom’s proposed slash-and-burn, and crash-and-burn budget for Fiscal Year 2008-2009, […]
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inspects the underside of an all-electric passenger vehicle
developed by Tesla Motors in San Carlos following a press conference yesterday.
The press conference was held to announce Tesla Motors has chosen California over New Mexico
to manufacture a new sports-sedan model.
Photos by John Hoctor
By Jason Bennert
July 1, 2008
Heralded electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors will build […]
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From Free Internet PressÂ
June 20, 2008
Crude oil prices rose sharply on the world’s commodity markets Friday night after the head of OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) dismissed as “irrational and illogical” a call by Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the cartel to pump more oil.
Chakib Khelil said the near doubling of oil […]
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By Lisa Moresco
June 2, 2008
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
- Legendary Chef, James Beard
The devastating experience of hunger, not so much, but 150,000 of our fellow residents endure the frightening encounter of deficient and inadequate nourishment yearly. In a setting as prestigious as San Francisco, children, families and seniors are now placing […]
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A proposal to replace an aging power plant in San Francisco’s Potrero District
with four new fossil fuel burning plants,
has come under fire from environmentalists who say the project
is mired in economic and environmenal flaws.
Photo via skew-t, Flickr.com
By Eric Brooks, special to Fog City Journal
May 13, 2008
With the May 5 hearing testimony on the new peaker […]
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By Ari Burack
April 25, 2008
An anonymous tip by a real estate industry whistleblower has netted San Francisco more than $1.3 million, through the city’s recently established commercial real estate watchdog program, Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting announced Thursday.
Ting called the “amazing tip,” reported in 2006 following the passage of the city’s commercial real estate watchdog ordinance, “an […]
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By Jason Bennert
April 24, 2008
On the heels of a Santa Cruz County judge’s ruling halting aerial spraying for the light brown apple moth, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that spraying would be halted until a battery of health tests are completed on the agent used in the spraying.
The governor’s office indicated that spraying would not […]
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By James Lanaras
April 24, 2008
A second light brown apple moth was found this week within 3 miles of another moth that was found near Arnold Drive on the outskirts of Sonoma in February, the Sonoma County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office said this morning.
The discovery of the second moth in a trap Monday triggered quarantines in Sonoma […]
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California District 3 candidate Joe Nation
unveiled a detailed climate change action plan Tuesday at Sonoma State University.
File photo by Luke Thomas
By James Lanaras
April 23, 2008
State Senate candidate and former Assemblyman Joe Nation detailed a climate change plan and economic development proposal Tuesday to create “green collar” jobs and reduce the budget deficit.
Nation unveiled his proposal […]
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No laughing matter: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has supported
a half-trillion dollars in appropriations for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan
under the double talk guise of “no blank check” for Iraq. Now she’s planning
on giving George Bush another $178 billion.
Photo by Luke Thomas
From Democrats.com
Pelosi Plans $178 Billion Blank Check for Iraq
Measured […]
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