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New FCC boss coming to Oakland
On Thu/9, Voices for Internet Freedom, Free Press and the Center for Media Justice are hosting Tom Wheeler, the recently installed Federal Communications Commission chairman, for a town hall-style...
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Pelosi denounces City College's accreditors
Rep. Nancy Pelosi at a press conference, Monday Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezRep. Nancy Pelosi denounced the accreditors seeking to close City College at a press conference held yesterday at the...
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Insane Clown Posse and the ACLU vs. the FBI
ICP: Into facepaint, hatchets, and civil rights.I never thought I'd write this sentence, and I doubt I'll have cause to write it again, but: Good on ya, Insane Clown Posse.Read more »
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SF food bank short 2,200 volunteers
Volunteers sort food at the San Francisco and Marin Food Banks' warehouse, by Potrero Hill. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezWell, that was fast.As it does every year, the cheery holiday season brought...
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Protect pedestrians, crack down on red light runners
Some of WalkFirst's pedestrian safety design options.It’s good to see City Hall finally focusing on pedestrian safety in San Francisco, where the streets are more dangerous than ever for their most...
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Got pests? Open data project reveals housing code violation data
Thanks to a handy new online platform created by the city’s Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation and Code for America, you can now determine whether...
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SFUSD sticker shock: new art school to cost $240 million
A still in progress rendering of the new Ruth Asawa School of the Arts high school building, on Van Ness. Architect render via SFUSDArt advocates have tried to move the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts...
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Voter Approval to Waterfront Development campaign officially underway
Last year's campaign morphed into the current one.The campaign to subject big projects proposed for San Francisco’s waterfront to popular approval is officially underway, with the City Attorney’s...
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Dan Siegel announces candidacy for Oakland mayor
Oakland attorney Dan Siegel, known for a long history of involvement in Bay Area social justice movements, joined a group of more than 150 supporters in front of Oakland City Hall this morning to...
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Gods and mom-sters: the week's new films
Tough mothers: Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in August: Osage County.Photo courtesy of the Weinstein CompanyThis week: August: Osage County(bumped from its previously-scheduled opening last week)...
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Here’s what the new FCC chairman heard when he came to Oakland
Don't worry, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler diligently took notes on everything that was said.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWELast night (Thu/9), the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications...
View ArticleSolomon: The CIA, Amazon, Bezo, and the Washington Post: An exchange with...
By Norman Solomon (B3 note: This exchange between Norman Solomon and the Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron followed a Solomon column that dramatized the ethical issues involving the Post...
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"Poll" showing 73 percent approval for Mayor Lee was bogus
Mayor Ed Lee appears larger than life in the USF "poll."Tim DawThere was a poll conducted in late November by the University of San Francisco, the results of which were released in conjunction with the...
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Gimme 5: Must-see shows this week
Black Cobra Vipers play the Chapel every Tuesday this month.Happy Monday, kids! If you're feeling the comedown from a solid week of shows celebrating the Rickshaw Stop's 10th anniversary (read our...
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Article overlooks key findings and new academic research
USF Associate Professor Corey Cook is a co-author of the survey.By Corey CookI am writing in regard to Reed Nelson’s story “’Poll’ showing 73 percent approval for Mayor Lee was flawed.” As one of the...
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SFUSD students may get new police protections
13 year old Iheem Antone gives a thumbs up before marching for suspension reform outside the Board of Education on Tuesday, Oct. 22. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezStudents who run afoul of the...
View ArticleSolomon: Why the Washington Post’s new ties to the CIA are so ominous
American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain.A tip-off is that the Washington Post refuses to face up to a conflict of interest involving Jeff Bezos -- who’s now the sole owner of the...
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Mar calls for hearing on recycling center evictions
The now closed Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council's recycling center.An eviction crisis of a different sort has hit San Francisco, as one by one, recycling centers are closing across the city....
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A first glance at 'Looking'
Looking scruff-tastic, but where's the beef?Imagine a place where all the gay men are masculine, well-built, physically unselfconscious, and fashionably tousled; where young male artists and young male...
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Lee panders to motorists and undermines SFMTA with Sunday metering repeal
First Mayor Ed Lee ignores the rising cost of living in San Francisco (fueled partly by his own corporate welfare for the tech industry and commercial landlords), and now he’s using his sudden concern...
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