Articles Posted in the Opinion Category

  • Let’s Make a New, New Deal

    By Susan Feiner June 10, 2009 FDR realized that, “People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” Why do most economic policies run counter to this…

  • North-South Divide

    North-South Divide

    Will Chadwick By Will Chadwick June 10, 2009 First impressions are important, they say, when you meet someone. But what about when you experience a city for the first time? I came to San Francisco…

  • Sotomayor: Do Not Give an Inch

    Strong progressive support for Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, is a chance to further marginalize prejudiced and pro-corporate elements in the Republican Party. Photo: Larry Downing By Adriel Hampton June 8, 2009…

  • Why Saying Sorry Seems to be Bad for the Human Race

    Why Saying Sorry Seems to be Bad
    for the Human Race

    Thembi Mutch By Thembi Mutch June 7, 2009 At the moment in the UK there’s all kinds of political meltdowns; MP’s using public money to do ridiculous things like clean their moats, pay the window…

  • Sadly Majority Says Torture OK

    One of the infamous images documented by soldiers at Abu Ghraib shows a hooded man standing  on a box. The detainee’s hands were attached to wires. He was told that he if he stepped off…

  • Crime, Coercion and the CJC

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    Crime, Coercion and the CJC

    San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. Photo by Luke Thomas By Jeff Adachi June 5, 2009 One of the ongoing debates of late surrounding the Community Justice Center (CJC) court concerns the question of how…

  • US Navy, Electeds, Dragging Feet Over Hunters Point Shipyard Toxic Cleanup?

    US Navy, Electeds, Dragging Feet
    Over Hunters Point Shipyard Toxic Cleanup?

    By Eric Smith and Arthur Feinstein, special to FogCityJournal.com June 3, 2009 Last year, San Francisco voters approved Proposition G to allow the City to set forth on the largest development project that San Franciscans…