A National Forest Sprouts Green Goodness in the Tenderloin

A National Forest Sprouts Green Goodness
in the Tenderloin

May 11, 2009 | 3 Comments

The Tenderloin National Forest, located in an alley on Ellis Street near Leavenworth, has transformed a once drug and crime-infested hideaway into a sustainable green/art space. Photos by Luke Thomas By Adam Wight May 11,…

Give the Working Class a Fighting Chance

Give the Working Class a Fighting Chance

May 10, 2009 | 4 Comments

By Adriel Hampton May 11, 2009 Workers rallied last week in San Francisco and throughout the U.S. for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill in Congress with the great potential to strengthen…

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American Workers Urge Feinstein to Support Employee Free Choice Act

American Workers Urge Feinstein
to Support Employee Free Choice Act

May 08, 2009 | 2 Comments

A rally was held Wednesday outside the San Francisco Federal Building to urge Senator Dianne Feinstein’s support of the Employee Free Choice Act. Photos by Luke Thomas By Fanny Dassie May 8, 2009 Bay Area…

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Stay Tuned: Tourk It Up a Notch

Stay Tuned: Tourk It Up a Notch

May 07, 2009 | 25 Comments

Tourking it up a notch, hired gun Alex Tourk rubs shoulders with the new Billy Whiz kid on the block, BOS Prez David Chiu, following Chiu’s soliloquy to the building tradesters Tuesday. Photos by Luke…

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Ethics Commission Airs Dirty Laundry

Ethics Commission Airs Dirty Laundry

May 07, 2009 | No Comments

Inadequate Sunshine investigation may lead AG Brown to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Mayor Gavin Newsom By Joe Lynn May 7, 2009 By the end of an April 24th joint meeting of the Sunshine…

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Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction

May 05, 2009 | No Comments

By Nicholas Olczak May 5, 2009 When Suraj Ghulam Habib was six years old, she saw what she thought was a can of food buried in the ground near her home in Afghanistan. The can…

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Recurrent Dilemmas at the Sunset Reservoir

May 04, 2009 | 22 Comments

A proposal by Recurrent Energy to own and operate a 5 megawatt energy-producing solar voltaic farm on the Sunset Reservoir in San Francisco, requires more scrutiny and analysis. Illustration courtesy Recurrent Energy By Julian Davis…

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