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Gonzalez and Leigh Request Release
of Fatal Night Club Shooting Police Reports

In a letter dated July 23 to SFPD Chief George Gascón, Gonzalez and Leigh attorney Whitney Leigh requests the release of the reports to correct “serious and false allegations that have appeared in recent media reports.” At issue is whether the incident began inside or outside Jelly’s.

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BP, US Government Suspends First Amendment?

July 4, 2010 As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials—working with BP—who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most [...]

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Medical News Reporting Today – It’s So Last Century

Winston Churchill once said that you can always count on Americans to do the right thing, once they’ve tried everything else. I only hope that we all wise up before it’s too late to repair the damages done to our bodies if we continue to shut out other healthcare professionals simply because those in the media shut them out of our news.

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Why Twitter’s Gov’t Outreach Reflects a Big Win
for the Gov 2.0 Movement

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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“Iran was not what we had thought”

Although the relentless and incessant spates of mainstream media’s psychological warfare have turned Iran into a hazardous and insecure region in the eyes of global public opinions, thousands of Western tourists “take the risk” of traveling to Iran each year to behold in person the concealed and withheld realities of the peaceful and magnificent Iran which a hawkish leader had idiotically categorized as a part of the so-called “Axis of Evil”.

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Media Alert: SF Sit/Lie Ordinance to Get Third Airing

“When pressed by Supervisor Campos, neither the Mayor’s office nor the police could cite any language in the existing laws or in the SFPD General Orders that prevent the police from enforcing those laws to address problem behaviors on sidewalks. If proponents cannot provide an explanation for why this new ordinance is needed, then it is clear we should not pass sit-lie into law,” said Andy Blue of the Stand Against Sit Lie Coalition.

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Laguna Honda Hospital Flack
Refuses to Stop Touching I-Team Reporter

In a video posted by the I-Team, Noyes repeatedly asks Slavin to stop touching him. Slavin repeatedly ignores Noyes’ request and later in the video, Slavin prevents the I-Team videographer from documenting the confrontation.

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Gonzalez and Leigh Request Release of Fatal Night Club Shooting Police Reports