First elected to the Board in 2006, Mendoza decided to run for re-election in large part because of the accomplishments the current Board has achieved, not least of which is a spirit of cooperation between Board members to achieve results, a stark contrast to previous Board compositions plagued by infighting.
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Politicians thirst for personal accolades, and just about any one of them would swoon over that passage in The New York Times. But over the last decade in San Francisco’s District 6, the more honest analysis is that our many victories– on the ballot, at City Hall and in the neighborhoods– have not been about Chris Daly. Rather, our success has grown from the strength of our grassroots community and a true partnership between those in the trenches and those of us they elevated into the halls of power.
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Brodkin filed papers Tuesday with the San Francisco Department of Elections declaring her intent to run for one of three seats up for re-election on the seven-member Board. Board of Education President Jane Kim, Vice-President Hydra Mendoza and Commissioner Shree Maufus currently hold those seats.
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Last week, Government 2.0 – a term first used by Bill Eggers in his 2005 e-gov-focused book of the same name, and that has become almost synonymous with Web 2.0 as developers have turned on to the promise of government-brokered data troves and universal open standards – won a significant victory. San Francisco-based Twitter, the popular social media messaging service that has serves as a platform for thousands of startups using its architecture and user base, announced that it is hiring for its first field office, focused on the government sector.
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Filed under: Culture, Education, Media, Politics, Technology
Constitutional rights are denied, and wrongful convictions are common because due process and judicial fairness are absent. Worst of all, it affects children, society’s most vulnerable. Short of fundamental reform, America’s criminal justice system will stay broken and corrupted, but profitable to a thriving, growing industry, preying on human beings as commodities, including kids never getting a chance to become productive adult citizens.
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Photos by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas March 5, 2010 As many as ten thousand students, parents, school faculty and union members took to the streets of San Francisco yesterday as part of a coordinated day of action to protest cuts to education. Dubbed “The Strike and Day of Action to Defend Public Education,” the [...]
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Supervisor Chris Daly Photo by Luke Thomas By Chris Daly, special to FogCityJournal.com January 11, 2010 For 2010, I vow to use the word “fuck” in each of my remaining Board of Supervisors meetings. A funny little status update on Facebook – 15 seconds to compose and share with my group of on-line friends. A [...]
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