Expanding Transit Sustainably
Effective and efficient public transit is a key to making cities more livable and sustainable. Cities around the world are building, and in many cases rebuilding, rail transit networks. The…
New Rule: Not Everything in America
Has to Make a Profit
Bill Maher By Bill Maher July 26, 2009 How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there…
Court Jester’s Class of 2000
h. brown Photos by Luke Thomas By Harold Brown July 25, 2009 D-2’s Gavin Newsom Presently the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco and a leading candidate…
CodePink Action Against Torture Memo Author Yoo
Former Bush administration Justice Department torture memo author, John Yoo. From CodePink July 25, 2009 Groups want John Yoo dismissed and disbarred for complicity in torture and murder, illegal wiretapping,…
Feinstein, Leno, Ma Oppose Afghanistan
Exit Strategy Resolution
By Hope Johnson July 24, 2009 A San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) resolution urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi to co-sponsor a bill demanding a US exit strategy from Afghanistan,…
Healthcare 101
Health care crisis as depicted by pirates. By Jill Chapin July 23, 2009 Healthcare reform really isn’t as complicated as we are led to believe, but that is exactly what…
Healthcare Reform: Blue Dog Dems Corrupted
by Big Pharma?
Coalition’s PAC is attracting new money from across the spectrum From The Center for Public Integrity WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2009 — Whether the subject is health care reform, climate…