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Texas and tax cuts suck; CA leads job growth
How many times have we heard that jobs are leaving California for Texas? How many times have big-business groups and the polticians who play to their needs said that lower taxes and corporate welfare...
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3 ways James Franco gets kinky -- and ways you can, too!
The Franco-Armory love affair continues.Is it safe to say at this point that James Franco is our kind of freak? The king of hyphens (indie-mainstream-actor-author-producer-director-etc.) is in the...
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Appetite: New year sips
Brookly Hemispherical Bitters tickle our tastebudsRinging in the new year is all about celebratory imbibing, but the sometimes dreary days of January likewise call for a cheering pour. It’s a month of...
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LAnce Armstrong and the SF financier
According to the Chron, the owner of the bicycle team that employed Lance Armstrong has been subpoenaed as part of the federal investigation into Lance Armstrong's alleged doping. (Why is this a...
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Hyatt agrees to job hazard analysis in settlement
UNITE HERE Local 2 joined coalition partners in calling for a global boycott against Hyatt in July of 2012.Nenita Ibe, who will turn 71 in February, says she still hasn’t fully recovered from a...
View ArticleNorman Solomon: The progressive caucus: Enabling Obama's rightwing moves?
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He co-chairs the Healthcare Not Warfare campaign organized by Progressive...
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Meditate on social justice: Yoga Journal Conference crosses the picket line
Kitty infographics FTWDoes inner peace include caring about the wellbeing of the workers cleaning up after your yoga conference? Jury's out in this particular case: this weekend, the Yoga Journal...
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PG&E: Profits over safety
You have to love the way the lawyer from TURN (The Utility Reform Network) put PG&E's Vice President Jane Yura on the spot during hearings on the San Bruno pipeline disaster. There was lots of back...
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Overturning Citizens United
Sen. Al Franken, who is wonderful, has moved beyond seeking more disclosure (which the Republicans won't accept) and is now moving toward a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. He's...
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Burning Man veterans get ticket access, followed by everyone else
Image from this year's Cargo Cult theme illustration by DA Dominic Tinio.Burning Man veterans, volunteers, and insiders are now awaiting word on whether they'll get on the inside track to buy tickets...
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The (bad) Warriors deal, by the numbers
Rudy Nothenberg tells us about the Warriors dealRudy Nothenberg, who ran Muni and the city’s water system, was chief administrative officer, negotiated the deal for the Giants ballpark, and served...
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State regulators respond to Hyatt on repetitive motion injuries
PHOTO BY FABIO VENNI VIA CREATIVE COMMONSThe Guardian received a phone call from Amy Martin, chief counsel of the California Occupational Safety & Health Administration (Cal/OSHA) this morning in...
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The Performant: Books and beats
Starting the New Year off right with Clown Foolery and Los RakasIt’s a Friday night and the Booksmith is full of clowns. Seriously, it’s like a clown convention in here. Fully half the oddience are...
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Party Radar: Edwardian Ballers to take over city, doff top hats
"Is Steampunk the Next Big Fashion Trend?" asked Time today. LOL-choke. Let's just tune up our corsets and revel all weekend in burner-tinged retro-futurism at the Edwardian Ball (Fri/18 and Sat/19 at...
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Nite Trax: That Icee Hot sensation
All Your Icee Belong To UsThe stimulating and excellently-eared Icee Hot crew is blasting a two-part third anniversary party at Public Works: this Sat/19 sees dreamy R&B chopper Jacques Greene...
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Arnold's baaaack! Plus more new movies
Get to the theatah! California's (thankfully, former) Governor returns to the multiplex to do what he does best: speak in one-liners and carry a big gun. My review of The Last Stand below the jump,...
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Labor supporters make progress with yoga community on hotel boycott
Pro-labor yogis stretch and demonstrate outside the Hyatt Regency yesterday.While the Hyatt and Yoga Journal have tried to minimize the long labor dispute between hotel management and workers – which...
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American Idol, Week One
Lazaro: The winner so farWe make it through these early parts, Vivian and I -- the embarassing blooper reel is not the best part of a show that does, at times, actually discover talent -- and at times...
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Democratic Party tries to block non-Democrats
Once again, the San Francisco Democratic Party is considering ousting local Democratic clubs that endorse non-Democrats in nonpartisan races. It's crazy, and it goes back to the Matt Gonzalez era, and...
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King: I have a dream. Obama: I have a drone
Norman SolomonA simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.Obama made no mention of King during...
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