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  • Adachi Ready to Submit Pension Reform Petitions

    Adachi Ready to Submit Pension Reform Petitions

    “I am confident that we have the 46,000 signatures needed today to qualify for the November ballot,” Adachi said in a statement released to FCJ. “The voters of San Francisco have overwhelmingly responded to the need for sustainable pension reform by signing these petitions. Now the Department of Elections has up to 30 days to confirm our effort to take this critical budgetary issue to the entire electorate.”

  • CAKE Returns to San Francisco for “Climatepalooza” Solar Benefit Concert

    CAKE Returns to San Francisco
    for “Climatepalooza” Solar Benefit Concert

    The eco/environmentally-conscious pop/rock outfit from Sacramento, who rely on solar energy to power their music studios, held the concert to raise money to help solarize the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Community Center, “a non-profit that helps more than 600 children, seniors, and families each day in San Francisco, with a focus on low to moderate income families,” said Paul Scott, Executive Director of One Atmosphere, a non-profit organization “dedicated to combating global warming whose prior work with the Sierra Club and the City of San Francisco has been enthusiastically endorsed by Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and many others.”

  • Gonzalez Interviewed on Adachi Pension Reform Measure

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    Gonzalez Interviewed on Adachi Pension Reform Measure

    The measure, which is expected to go before voters in November, aims to rein in unsustainable health and pension costs, projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016 if needed reforms are not enacted.

  • Through two mayors, connected island developers cultivated profitable deal

    Through two mayors, connected island developers
    cultivated profitable deal

    Big projects naturally draw big money. Treasure Island, currently slated for $6 billion in residential and commercial development, was an unusually large prize. But companies with political and social ties to two mayors won the two major projects related to the redevelopment — with the master development drawing only one serious bid.

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    Gonzalez Agrees to Debate Salomon
    over Pension Reform Measure

    Dubbed SF Smart Reform, the measure aims to rein in City pension and healthcare costs, projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016.

  • Brodkin Files to Run for San Francisco School Board

    Brodkin filed papers Tuesday with the San Francisco Department of Elections declaring her intent to run for one of three seats up for re-election on the seven-member Board. Board of Education President Jane Kim, Vice-President Hydra Mendoza and Commissioner Shree Maufus currently hold those seats.

  • Daly Announces District 6 Symposium

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    Daly Announces District 6 Symposium

    Daly forwarded to FCJ today what appears to be a postcard mailer that we are presuming he will send to all registered District 6 voters.