By Luke Thomas March 30, 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court today denied the Golden Gate Restaurant Association’s application for an emergency order that would have immediately halted the employer-spending requirement of the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance, a key element of the City’s “Healthy San Francisco” program. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who reviews and considers [...]
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Drug Abuse Prevention Task Force By Ralph E. Stone March 30, 2009 Recently, President Obama promised to send more money, technology, and manpower to help Mexico fight the drug cartels. This is not just foreign aid; it is also a recognition that Mexico’s war on drugs has also become a homeland security problem. U.S. law [...]
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By Jill Chapin March 30, 2009 President Obama recently responded in the negative to a query on whether it’s time to legalize marijuana. Being a smart, rational guy, I guess he knew better than to rock his political boat by giving credence to such an outside-the-box solution as the decriminalization of marijuana. By anyone’s standards [...]
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By Stephen Lendman March 30, 2009 This article responds to a March 15 Los Angeles Times Judea Pearl one headlined: “Is anti-Zionism hate?” Pearl teaches computer science at UCLA, is the father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. It was “formed….to continue Danny’s mission and to address the root [...]
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Joe Jackson, 70, is a retiree living on a fixed income in a Single Residence Occupancy hotel in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. Due to USPS fiscal shortages and service cutbacks, low-income tenants like Jackson are forced to pay for private mail service to guarantee mail delivery. Photo by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas, first published [...]
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A resolution requiring Mayor Gavin Newsom to redirect SFPD law enforcement efforts away from criminalizing law-abiding immigrants, was passed yesterday during a meeting of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee. File photo by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas March 26, 2009 A resolution that “demands” San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom “redirect law enforcement efforts [...]
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A resolution passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday commends restaurants that voluntarily remove foie gras from their menus ahead of California statewide ban in 2012. By Fanny Dassie March 26, 2009 While animal rights defenders will cheer, some gourmet chefs will be banging their pots and pans in disapproval following the adoption [...]
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