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Adachi Allies Threaten Cuts to Public Defender Budget over Pension Reform
The move is a retaliatory strike over Adachi’s pension and healthcare reform measure, SF Smart Reform, which aims to rein in unsustainable pension and healthcare costs projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016.
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Adachi Ready to Submit Pension Reform Petitions
“I am confident that we have the 46,000 signatures needed today to qualify for the November ballot,” Adachi said in a statement released to FCJ. “The voters of San Francisco have overwhelmingly responded to the need for sustainable pension reform by signing these petitions. Now the Department of Elections has up to 30 days to confirm our effort to take this critical budgetary issue to the entire electorate.”
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BP, US Government Suspends First Amendment?
July 4, 2010 As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by…
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CAKE Returns to San Francisco
for “Climatepalooza” Solar Benefit ConcertThe eco/environmentally-conscious pop/rock outfit from Sacramento, who rely on solar energy to power their music studios, held the concert to raise money to help solarize the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Community Center, “a non-profit that helps more than 600 children, seniors, and families each day in San Francisco, with a focus on low to moderate income families,” said Paul Scott, Executive Director of One Atmosphere, a non-profit organization “dedicated to combating global warming whose prior work with the Sierra Club and the City of San Francisco has been enthusiastically endorsed by Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and many others.”
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Gonzalez Agrees to Debate Salomon
over Pension Reform MeasureDubbed SF Smart Reform, the measure aims to rein in City pension and healthcare costs, projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016.
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Brodkin Files to Run for San Francisco School Board
Brodkin filed papers Tuesday with the San Francisco Department of Elections declaring her intent to run for one of three seats up for re-election on the seven-member Board. Board of Education President Jane Kim, Vice-President Hydra Mendoza and Commissioner Shree Maufus currently hold those seats.
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Daly Announces District 6 Symposium
Daly forwarded to FCJ today what appears to be a postcard mailer that we are presuming he will send to all registered District 6 voters.
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