San Francisco Bay Area News, Arts, Culture and Politics
By Ian Fletcher, guest editorial October 14, 2009 In this November’s election, commercial interests are doing their best to ruin downtown San Francisco. Their primary initiative—Proposition D—would create an exemption…
Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. Photo by Luke Thomas By Art Agnos October 13, 2009 Twenty years ago, the whole world watched as San Francisco faced its greatest disaster…
Western SoMa Citizens Planning Task Force Chair, Jim Meko. By Jim Meko October 12, 2009 During the dot com boom, speculative land use development swept over the formerly industrial portions…
Activists representing POWER entered the San Francisco offices of Senator Mark Leno yesterday to protest legislation he authored that would transfer State parkland to a private developer. Photos by Luke…
In spite of the many evils committed under the two Bush regimes, Chomsky warned that it was the Clinton Doctrine, claiming the US has the right to use extreme force…
But it all went a bit wrong when I arrived at Civic Center. There was simply too many people and trying to police and contain the whole event was simply…
Christine Pelosi discusses open source voting systems with Open Voting Consortium founder Alan Dechert during a fundraiser last week in San Francisco. Photos by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas October…