Mirkarimi ordinance shoots
for enforceable greenhouse gas reductions
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Photo by Luke Thomas By Ari Burack April 17, 2008 A proposed ordinance moving through the San Francisco legislature would establish enforceable greenhouse gas reduction targets, as…
Bay Area News Briefs
By Ananda Shorey April 17, 2008 Friend confesses on tape to shooting Willis-Starbuck Christopher Hollis confessed in a videotaped statement played in court today to firing the shot that killed…
Overheard in Fog City
By Luke Thomas April 17, 2008 h. brown turns 64 h. “Court Jester” brown. San Francisco’s Court Jester h. brown today turned the ripe young age of 64. The prolific,…
Judge invalidates study finding no harm to salmon
By Julia Cheever April 17, 2008 A federal judge in Fresno Wednesday invalidated a biological study that concluded a plan to pump more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River…
Defense lawyer says Hans Reiser didn’t kill Nina
By Jeff Shuttleworth April 17, 2008 Hans Reiser’s defense attorney compared the computer engineer to a duckbill platypus Wednesday and said Reiser is obnoxious and self-centered but insisted that he…
Newsom joins officials
at emergency operations center opening
By Jesse Dungan April 17, 2008 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined public safety officials Wednesday to mark the opening of the city’s newly remodeled Emergency Operations Center. The first…