Articles Posted in the Politics Category
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High Times at the Premier Medical Cannabis Cup in San Francisco
The two-day expo event attracted thousands of medical marijuana users, cultivators, activists and cannabusiness entrepreneurs, all eager to test new cannabis strains, consume edibles, attend seminars and parties and introduce new cannabusiness products to a market segment with revenues outstripping the US automobile industry.
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Meko, Keys Close to Qualifying for Public Financing
Meko’s campaign submitted the necessary forms to the San Francisco Ethics Commission yesterday, according campaign manager Jamie Whitaker. Keys, who is finalizing the necessary paperwork, should be in a position to submit within the next two days, he said. Both Keys and Meko are supportive of the Progressive Primary sponsored by Supervisor Chris Daly though Meko has expressed concerns with the Progressive Pledge.
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Momentum: Mandelman
Rafael Mandelman is a near consensus progressive candidate for Supervisor. He’s already endorsed by most progressive elected officials, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, the Sierra Club, SEIU 1021, the CA Nurses Association, and the SF Labor Council. He will certainly add the Tenants Union and SF Bay Guardian to that mix. Why then would a progressive like Paul Hogarth cast aspersions on the Mandelman campaign?
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Daly’s Last Chance to Shine
There’s only one problem: He wants to load Jane Kim and Debra Walker and Jim Meko into his convertible with him and if he succeeds, the hopes for a Progressive victory in D6 will go over the edge with them. It’s not too late for Chris to change his mind but doing that can be like plugging BP’s raging well in the Gulf. Personally, I’ve thrown everything I have at him and nothing gets through that thick skull.
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Why Twitter’s Gov’t Outreach Reflects a Big Win
for the Gov 2.0 MovementLast 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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Overheard in Fog City:
Daly’s Progressive Primary on the Rocks?Insiders are now shifting the conversation towards a ‘candidates collaborative’ whereby each of the Progressive frontrunner candidates agree to maximize the opportunities presented by ranked-choice-voting. This includes not going negative on each other and recommending second and third place votes to their Progressive challengers.
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Disaster in the Gulf
Once toxins enter the food chain, none of it escapes harm, and some may be lost forever, the result of what Marine Environmental Research Institute director Susan Shaw calls “the biggest environmental disaster of our time.”
The Hunger Site
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