Articles Posted February 2008

  • Google gifts free voicemail to city homeless

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    Google gifts free voicemail to city homeless

    Google product manager Craig Walker with Mayor Gavin Newsom and Alex Tourk announced plans yesterday to extend free voicemail to homeless clients during the 21st installment of San Francisco’s Project Homeless Connect. Photos by Luke…

  • San Francisco – Inside City Hall With Nicholas Olczak

    San Francisco – Inside City Hall
    With Nicholas Olczak

    Nicholas Olczak Photos by Luke Thomas By Nicholas Olczak February 27, 2008 One small step, one giant leap…. An atmosphere often hangs over the legislative chambers at the start of the Board of Supervisors meetings,…

  • Why the mainstream mediadoesn’t care about the murder of gay teens

    Why the mainstream media
    doesn’t care about the murder of gay teens

    By Tanene Allison February 27, 2008 Lawrence “Larry” King was shot to death and the media thought that you didn’t need to know about it. Larry, as you might have now learned, was fifteen and…

  • Bay Area congressman backs renewable energy tax credits

    Bay Area congressman backs renewable energy tax credits

    Congressman Jerry McNerney By Caitilin McAdoo February 28, 2008 Congressman Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, played a major role in drafting legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday that would repeal $18 billion in tax…

  • State lawmaker announces paid sick days legislation

    State lawmaker announces paid sick days legislation

    Assemblymember Fiona Ma Photo by Luke Thomas By Ashley Wright February 27, 2008 Assemblywoman Fiona Ma announced legislation on the steps of San Francisco City Hall today that would guarantee all California workers paid sick…

  • A Christian Nation?

    A Christian Nation?

    By Terry Canaan, special to Fog City Journal February 27, 2008 John McCain was down in the polls — way down — in the fall of 2007. Far from being the presumptive nominee, it was…

  • Bay Area News Briefs

    Bay Area News Briefs

    By Ananda Shorey February 27, 2008 FBI leads raid of alleged family-run meth operation A two-year investigation into an alleged methamphetamine operation centered in the South Bay culminated today with the service of numerous search…