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Pelosi was implying that the 1978 murder of Harvey Milk, the gay San Francisco supervisor, was spawned by the kind of right wing rhetoric one hears at Tea Parties and the like. In reality, Milk's murder had nothing to do with anything ...Leftist politicians glide through their careers as though there were no Internet, no YouTube, no newspaper archives, no history books, no one worth knowing who does not agree with them. Protected as they are by the media, they feel free to ignore the past as it happened and reconstruct it as it suits the purpose of the moment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave remarkable witness to this willful amnesia with her hysterical—in both senses of the word—re-imagining of San Francisco in the seventie

Joe Alioto Veronese is exploring a run in the race for District 2 Supervisor. Photo by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas September 24, 2009, 9:00 pm Former San Francisco Police Commissioner Joe Alioto-Veronese is exploring a possible run in the 2010 race for District 2 Supervisor, Fog City Journal has learned. “I have received dozens of requests from community leaders, neighborhood merchants and public safety officials to be their candidate in District 2. As a new father and a lifetime reA San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee today took up the subject of dwindling worldwide oil and natural gas supplies, and what San Francisco can do to prepare for a radical shift in its energy procurement and use. ...Openly gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty has announced his intention to run for mayor of San Francisco. Although renowned for its large LGBT population and its progressiveness on civil rights, San Francisco has never had an openly gay mayor. ...

In addition to tracking failed banks in2009 , Calculated Risk has published a Database of Problem Banks . A problem bank is defined as a bank that is in jeopardy of failing. A list of all problem banks is compiled, maintained, heavily monitored by the FDIC. In short, if problems at a listed bank continue, the FDIC will take control of the bank and then either sell the problem bank to a stronger one or liquidate the bank and pay off the depositors. It used to be the FDIC would inSan Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty's announcement that he planned to file papers this morning to run for mayor in 2011 reminded Legal Pad that we've heard the race for his District 8 seat is going to be a hot one,...On Wednesday, San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty announced that he intended to run for mayor in 2012, seeking the seat of the soon to be departing Gavin Newsom who intends to run for governor of the state of California, ...

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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Union Bank and KPBS will honor four exceptional Latinos from San Diego County with the 2009 Local Heroes Award for their outstanding community service. This year's honorees are: Ruben Barrales, Sarita Fuentes and Catalina Valencia, all of San Diego; and Dr. Jorge Valerdi of Chula Vista. The awards will be given on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at the KPBS Copley Telecommunication Center in San Diego. The honorees will be formally recognized as part of

In a recent study by Paul Ong at UCLA, 83% of Asian Americans in California considered themselves environmentalists. You could say that San Jose City Councilman Kansen Chu is one of them. Kansen has started the ball rolling on a  ban of all grocery bags in the city. He first got the idea in Taiwan when a grocer charged him for a plastic bag. Chu, 57, wasn't looking to become the local hero in an environmental battle that has stymied greener cities such as Seattle, whose voters last month On the surface, it's hard to see how Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who just announced plans to run for San Francisco's top job in 2011, is different from its current inhabitant, Gavin Newsom. Like Newsom, Dufty is a centrist — for the ...The population delusion THINK of the biggest crowd you've ever been in - perhaps 50,000 in a sports stadium. Just 6 hours from now there will be that many more people in the world, and another 50,000 in the following 6 hours, and on and on... No wonder that the burgeoning human population is often seen as is the single biggest problem facing our world. There are nearly 7 billion humans alive today, twice as many as there were in 1965, with 75 million more being added each year. UN predictioSan Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty will file papers with the city's Election Department this morning officially entering him in the city's mayoral race, according to the Bay Area Reporter: Dufty. "Dufty, 54, has made no secret of his ...

at least 4 other states are conducting investigations, - and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have an outstanding resolution calling for a moratorium. San Francisco already has 30 acres of synthetic fields. ...Will Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi forge ahead with recommendations in a 125-page peak oil report? The Board of Supervisors' Government Audit and Oversight Committee is scheduled to hold a 1 pm hea.From the San Francisco Examiner: “As part of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s “New Irvington Tunnel Project,” the Board of Supervisors voted 10-0 Tuesday to add another $3.9 million for such things as geotechnical investigation and engineering design service with the URS Corporation. The existing $9.9 million was increased by 39.1 percent for a

SAN FRANISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PLANNED TO TAKE JEWISH HOLIDAY OFF WHEN EVEN RABBIS ARE WORKING. 22 September 2009. bevan-dufty-sep-21. Bevan Dufty, the only Jewish member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, notes the board ...Bevan Dufty, the only Jewish member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, notes the board should hold the meeting. San Francisco Sentinel Photo © 2009 BY JOE ESKENAZI SFWeekly Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi is confused. One day after fasting for 24 hours and leading services for Yom Kippur, the most holy day on the Jewish calendar, he’s going to be back at work on Sept. 29. And yet, citing that very same Jewish holiday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors plans to nix its Sept. 29 mee

Ever since Barack Obama floated the idea of a soda tax, oh-so-caring politicians have been lining up to save you from yourself. Ka-ching. First it was tobacco, with Al Gore, who grew the plant but never inhaled, preaching against it. Next it was SUVs, with Arianna Huffington warning that it was unsustainable for the average American to use one-tenth the amount of energy she does. Then it was the anti-tranny crowd, with localities all over banning trans-fats. Now it’s little boys’ bubbly, soda,Starbucks: people either love ‘em or loathe ‘em. My husband likes their coffee and admires their business brains. I, on the other hand, can’t stand them for their homogenized, yuppie style. Having grown up in grunge-era Seattle, once a land of artsy coffee shops crammed with kitschy sofas and local color, cookie-cutter Starbucks look to me like a department store: void of soul and chock-full of useless merchandise. But how bad is Starbucks, really? I decided to find out. 1. Clean water is

This is Week 27 of AsianWeek’s salute to Chinese American heroes, in strategic partnership with Chinese American Heroes , a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to documenting the contributions of Chinese Americans to America and the world.  This week we are dedicating one historical moment to be saluted for the whole week. A great moment in American History and Chinese American history. March 28, 1898 Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco in 1873 to Chinese i

Dinner with Palins goes for $63,500 Dinner with Sarah Palin for $63,500? That's what the winner of an eBay auction is forking over to chow down with the former Alaska governor, her husband, Todd and five guests. Seven people bid a total of 61 times, starting with an opening bid of $25,000. The winner bid 27 times before winning with the $63,500 bid. The proceeds will go to "Ride 2 Recovery," a charity that provides wounded veterans with bicycles and organized rides to help in their mentaNo soda for you: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom — who has shown some sparks of food policy brilliance in the past — is planning on introducing a new fee on stores that sell sugar-laden drinks, with the proceeds going to programs that encourage exercise and discourage soda consumption. Newsom has been considering such a move for some time, but a new study from UCLA that links sodas and obesity in California seems to have pushed him over the edge.  Among the study’s findings are that $41 bill

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The war on soda is going into overdrive in San Franfreakshow, where the degenerate mayor plans to punitively loot stores that dare sell it: Calling soda the new tobacco, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will introduce legislation this fall that would charge a fee to retailers that sell sugary beverages. Newsom would need voter approval to tax individual cans of soda and sugary juice, but only needs approval from the Board of Supervisors to levy a fee on retailers. … Newsom wouldn't Michael McKean: ObamaCare vs. HitlerCare - newsclick.biz 09/19/2009 Err… What exactly was Hitler’s health care reform program again? The Innovation Tax - ethiopianreview.com 09/19/2009 Supposedly the Senate’s version of ObamaCare was written by Finance Chairman Max Baucus, but we’re beginning to wonder if the true authors were Abbott and Costello. The vaudeville logic of the plan is that Congress will tax health care to subsidize people to buy health care that new taxes and

The San Antonio personal injury lawyers at Stouwie & Mayo are dedicated to fight for your rights and provide you with excellent legal advice.Media mischaracterize Pelosi’s warning against “anti-government” rhetoric as attack on health care reform opponents Media figures including Candy Crowley, Carl Cameron, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson have mischaracterized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments that recent “anti-government rhetoric” reminded her of “the late ’70s in San Francisco” when “it created a climate in which violence took place,” to claim that she was criticizing opponents of health care reform. In fact, P

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