What Real Financial Reform Looks Like

May 03, 2010 | No Comments

Still a work in progress, the Senate bill will be as bogus as the House one, so whatever reconciliation produces will be another promise made, another broken. Business as usual will persist so don’t be fooled – on this measure or any other, including the appalling health care bill that made a dysfunctional system worse, and took a giant step toward ending Medicare, one of the main reasons it was enacted, besides enriching corporate providers.

Posted in Opinion, Politics

Thousands Protest Arizona Immigration Law
in San Francisco

May 02, 2010 | 8 Comments

The traditional May Day observance took on a more heated tone, however, when protesters clashed at Civic Center with members of the Golden Gate Minutemen and Norcal Tea Party, conservative groups that held a counter protest in support of strict immigration controls including Arizona’s immigration bill.

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Them That Be and Them That Wannabe: Court Jester Reviews DCCC Prog Kick-Off

Them That Be and Them That Wannabe: Court Jester Reviews DCCC Prog Kick-Off

May 01, 2010 | 6 Comments

The Thomas Photo Gallery: Former Board Prez and D-3 supe Peskin posed holding a copy of the current Bay Guardian Candidate Endorsement cover with current D-11 supe and Budget and Finance Chair John Avalos who was joined by cutest couple in the room, Erich Pearson and his main squeeze, David Owen, who in a former life before becoming an attorney was Aaron’s Chief of Staff under da dome.

Posted in Events, Opinion, Politics

Herrera, Campos Call on MLB to Move 2011 All-Star Game Over AZ Immigration Law, MLBPA Responds

Herrera, Campos Call on MLB to Move 2011 All-Star Game Over AZ Immigration Law,
MLBPA Responds

April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

“We write to call upon Major League Baseball to seek a new host city for the 82nd All-Star Game, outside the State of Arizona, unless that state’s law is repealed,” the letter states. “Arizona’s draconian new anti-immigration law, which unless repealed or invalidated by a court will be in full effect in July 2011, poses an unambiguous and direct threat to the liberty of millions of Americans who are Latino or who may appear to be of foreign origin-including Major League Baseball players and their fans.”

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Next Stop Wonderland

Next Stop Wonderland

April 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

By Adrian L. Jenkins April 28, 2010 Dante Alighieri famously wrote of the three principal stations at which a soul that had been cleanly shorn of this mortal coil might find itself – Inferno, Purgatorio…

Posted in Human Interest

The Immigration Dilemma

The Immigration Dilemma

April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

Most people who come to our country illegally simply want a better life for themselves and their families. They want their children to be educated, their health needs attended to, a chance at a decent job with a fair wage. But without endless resources, we cannot sustain our own citizens, much less those of the impoverished world. To how many can we offer unfettered support before we all sink to substandard lives? This may sound cold, but they are cold facts, and Americans increasingly feel they are on a rudderless ship without direction or a clear sense of purpose.

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If Moses Was a Cab Driver

If Moses Was a Cab Driver

April 27, 2010 | No Comments

(‘Up the creeks’ ladies 40 year journey) By h. Brown April 27, 2010 When Bonnie Ora Sherk began her journey to ‘daylight’ the Islais Creek, Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States and Joe…

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