Federal judge bars MediaNews and Chronicle
distribution pact
By Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service
November 29, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A federal judge Tuesday
temporarily barred the owner of 10 Bay Area newspapers and the
proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle from going ahead with
plans to combine local distribution operations and national
advertising sales.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said new evidence
of agreements between MediaNews Group Inc. and Chronicle owner
Hearst Corp. increases "the likelihood that the transactions
at issue here were anticompetitive and illegal."
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The Metadata Skirmish
By Joe
Lynn
November 27, 2006
I'm an old bureaucrat. I was the office manager
at the Ethics Commission for over five years and watched first
hand how frustrating document disclosure requests can be on
bureaucrats. I remember having a major project in production,
only to be asked to put it on hold in order to respond to a
Sunshine request.
Even though I knew responding to Sunshine requests
were part of my duties under the Ordinance, having to set aside
my "real" work was frustrating. Many bureaucrats add
to this the fear that the disclosure of documents may lead some
to question their competency making mischief for them. So it's
natural that bureaucrats will be hostile to the Ordinance. To
cap things off, we don't educate our civil service about the
advantages that come with transparent government business practices.
Unable to see the benefits, the drawbacks of transparency are
magnified.
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Wife of missing San Francisco man to hold Golden
Gate Park vigil
Jerry Tang
Photo courtesy Missing
Jerry Tang website
By Lara Moscrip, Bay City News Service
November 28, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - The family and friends
of a San Francisco man who disappeared nearly a year ago plan
to hold a vigil Wednesday evening in Golden Gate Park to keep
the search alive for the husband and father of two young children.
Jerry Tang was last seen Nov. 29, 2005 leaving
the family's Upper Haight neighborhood home, said his wife,
Joyce Tang.
The candlelight vigil will start at 6:30 p.m.
at the Panhandle section of the park, on the western side of
Masonic Street between Oak and Fell streets, Tang said.
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EVENTS
Free San Francisco journalist Josh Wolf
Photo(s) by
Luke Thomas
What: Free Josh Wolf Event
When: Thursday, December 7th 2006, 7:30
p.m.
Where: Balazo
Gallery, 2183 Mission Street @18th, 415-255-7227
On December 7th journalists, activists, and local
leaders will convene to call upon the United States Government
to free Josh Wolf from "coercive custody." Josh is
a San Francisco free-lance journalist being held for his refusal,
based on journalistic principles, to turn over to a federal
grand jury his news footage from a July 2005 protest. Free press
advocates from around the world have called his incarceration
unjust and a grave violation of the freedom of the press.
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Letters
The U.S. Constitiution and Josh Wolf
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