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Connecting the Bridge to Nowhere
to the New RealityCommentary by Hector Garcia, MediaForum.org Feburary 9, 2009 Taxpayers around the globe have paid over $13 trillion (more than a quarter of the gross global product) to bail out financial, insurance and other organizations as…
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San Francisco Budget Crisis Ripe For Mediation
Commentary by Patrick Goggin February 9, 2009 When Supervisor Bevan Dufty last week called for locking in a room Board leadership, unions, and the business community until they come up with a solution to the…
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Update on Injured San Francisco Firefighters’ Conditions
From the San Francisco Fire Department February 6, 2009 Two of the Six San Francisco Firefighters that were injured in an early morning fire in the Portola District yesterday remain in the hospital this morning.…
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Goof Gifts Newsom Donor 20 More Feet
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Photo by Luke Thomas By Robert Selna, San Francisco Chronicle February 4, 2009 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom used a clerical error to ensure that one of his major political…
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It’s Not Going to Be OK
By Chris Hedges February 3, 2009 The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece,…
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The Dawning of a New Era
Commentary by Patrick Goggin February 2, 2009 Two weeks on since the US and the world let out a long, pent up sigh after former President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were finally…
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How a ‘perfect storm’ led to the economic crisis
By Manav Tanneeru, CNN January 29, 2008 The U.S. economy is clearly in terrible shape. What is less clear is how we got here. Opinions vary on when and where to begin the story, but…
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