Articles Posted April 2008

  • Appeals court mulls San Francisco health plan

    Appeals court mulls San Francisco health plan

    By Julia Cheever April 17, 2008 A federal appeals court is now pondering the legality of a San Francisco measure requiring employers to help pay for the city’s pioneering universal health care program. Three judges…

  • Mirkarimi ordinance shootsfor enforceable greenhouse gas reductions

    Mirkarimi ordinance shoots
    for enforceable greenhouse gas reductions

    Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Photo by Luke Thomas By Ari Burack April 17, 2008 A proposed ordinance moving through the San Francisco legislature would establish enforceable greenhouse gas reduction targets, as opposed to mere declarations by…

  • Nader/Gonzalez campaign in a word: Wordless!

    Nader/Gonzalez campaign in a word: Wordless!

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  • Bay Area News Briefs

    Bay Area News Briefs

    By Ananda Shorey April 17, 2008 Friend confesses on tape to shooting Willis-Starbuck Christopher Hollis confessed in a videotaped statement played in court today to firing the shot that killed his close friend Meleia Willis-Starbuck,…

  • Overheard in Fog City

    Overheard in Fog City

    By Luke Thomas April 17, 2008 h. brown turns 64 h. “Court Jester” brown. San Francisco’s Court Jester h. brown today turned the ripe young age of 64. The prolific, colorful, and sometimes insufferable self-proclaimed…

  • Judge invalidates study finding no harm to salmon

    Judge invalidates study finding no harm to salmon

    By Julia Cheever April 17, 2008 A federal judge in Fresno Wednesday invalidated a biological study that concluded a plan to pump more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta wouldn’t hurt Chinook salmon…

  • Defense lawyer says Hans Reiser didn’t kill Nina

    Defense lawyer says Hans Reiser didn’t kill Nina

    By Jeff Shuttleworth April 17, 2008 Hans Reiser’s defense attorney compared the computer engineer to a duckbill platypus Wednesday and said Reiser is obnoxious and self-centered but insisted that he didn’t kill his estranged wife…