Articles Posted in 2009
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Sadly Majority Says Torture OK
One of the infamous images documented by soldiers at Abu Ghraib shows a hooded man standing on a box. The detainee’s hands were attached to wires. He was told that he if he stepped off…
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PG&E Vault Fire Rages, 4500 Without Power
A PG&E electrical fire rages at the intersection of O’Farrell and Polk streets in San Francisco. Photos by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas June 5, 2009 2:30 pm Forty-five hundred San Francisco residents are without…
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Federal Judge Issues Mixed Rulings
in Warrantless Wiretapping CasesA secret room in the offices of AT&T in San Francisco where internet and phone data is allegedly being surveiled by the NSA without warrants or subpoenas. By Susan Vaughan June 5, 2009 A federal…
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Crime, Coercion and the CJC
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. Photo by Luke Thomas By Jeff Adachi June 5, 2009 One of the ongoing debates of late surrounding the Community Justice Center (CJC) court concerns the question of how…
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Walker Kicks Off Early Fundraising Campaign
for D6 Supervisor Flanked by friends Erich Pearson and Bill Barnes, Building Inspections Commissioner Debra Walker yesterday kicked off her fundraising campaign for the 2010 race for District 6 Supervisor. Photos by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas…
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US Navy, Electeds, Dragging Feet
Over Hunters Point Shipyard Toxic Cleanup?By Eric Smith and Arthur Feinstein, special to FogCityJournal.com June 3, 2009 Last year, San Francisco voters approved Proposition G to allow the City to set forth on the largest development project that San Franciscans…
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Goodbye, GM
Michael Moore Photo by Luke Thomas By Michael Moore June 1, 2009 I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States…
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