Articles Posted June 2010
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Momentum: Mandelman
Rafael Mandelman is a near consensus progressive candidate for Supervisor. He’s already endorsed by most progressive elected officials, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, the Sierra Club, SEIU 1021, the CA Nurses Association, and the SF Labor Council. He will certainly add the Tenants Union and SF Bay Guardian to that mix. Why then would a progressive like Paul Hogarth cast aspersions on the Mandelman campaign?
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Daly’s Last Chance to Shine
There’s only one problem: He wants to load Jane Kim and Debra Walker and Jim Meko into his convertible with him and if he succeeds, the hopes for a Progressive victory in D6 will go over the edge with them. It’s not too late for Chris to change his mind but doing that can be like plugging BP’s raging well in the Gulf. Personally, I’ve thrown everything I have at him and nothing gets through that thick skull.
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Why Twitter’s Gov’t Outreach Reflects a Big Win
for the Gov 2.0 MovementLast week, Government 2.0 – a term first used by Bill Eggers in his 2005 e-gov-focused book of the same name, and that has become almost synonymous with Web 2.0 as developers have turned on to the promise of government-brokered data troves and universal open standards – won a significant victory. San Francisco-based Twitter, the popular social media messaging service that has serves as a platform for thousands of startups using its architecture and user base, announced that it is hiring for its first field office, focused on the government sector.
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Overheard in Fog City:
Daly’s Progressive Primary on the Rocks?Insiders are now shifting the conversation towards a ‘candidates collaborative’ whereby each of the Progressive frontrunner candidates agree to maximize the opportunities presented by ranked-choice-voting. This includes not going negative on each other and recommending second and third place votes to their Progressive challengers.
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Yanks Earn Draw Against Brits in World Cup
Fulham FC star Clint Dempsey struck the unlikely equalizer for the US in the final minutes of the first half from 25 yards into the hands of Green, who watched agonizingly as the ball escaped his save and rolled over the goal line.
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World Cup Fever Draws Footy Fans to Civic Center
The match was broadcast live on a giant monitor at no cost to taxpayers courtesy of SF Recreation and Parks in partnership with American Scores, a non-profit non-profit organization that teaches soccer to children in Bay Area public schools, and Teacherbus, a for-profit organization dedicated to combing recreation with education.
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Disaster in the Gulf
Once toxins enter the food chain, none of it escapes harm, and some may be lost forever, the result of what Marine Environmental Research Institute director Susan Shaw calls “the biggest environmental disaster of our time.”
The Hunger Site
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