BP, US Government Suspends First Amendment?
July 4, 2010 As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sacking McChrystal: Testimony to a Lost War
Nor can a change of command under a politically ambitious man, perhaps contemplating a 2012 run against Obama, using war as the way to the White House, win or lose…