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Stay Tuned: The Devil’s in the Sit/Lie Details
The proposed law seeks to make it illegal to sit or lie on the sidewalk between 7:00 am and 11:00 pm. Supporters say the intent is to protect the public from aggressive homeless youth in the Haight district. Warnings would be issued for first time sidewalk-sitting “offenders.” Repeat offenders could be fined or incarcerated.
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Washington Family Granted Green Cards
The family is elated to learn that they will be able to stay together. At the same time, the Washingtons recognize that this joyous news is a singular exception to a harsh rule. “Our family’s luck in this case was unique, but Mr. Newsom, the pain we felt when our family was facing deportation as a result of your policy is not unique at all,” Washington said in the letter. “We share the pain felt by the many other families whose children were taken into ICE custody and ordered deported as a result of your policy.”
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“Too Gay” for San Francisco?
Local Worker Fired
Alledgedly Because of Sexual OrientationThe “weird” questions Atos is referring to were related to his sexual orientation, Atos said. Following his fifteen-day suspension and investigation, human resources claimed that fellow employees found Atos’ behavior to be inappropriate. Yet, this claim seems suspect considering Atos was voted “Employee of the Year” by his fellow co-workers.
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Richard Fine’s Judicial Lynching
For his many years of crime fighting, Fine was charged with “contempt of court” and “moral turpitude,” disbarred by California’s Supreme Court and jailed by Superior Court Judge David Yaffe “in retaliation for bringing the cases and exposing the unconstitutional payments,” ones later held to be unconstitutional.
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Minding Muni, Part IV
If you’ve gotten on a 38L recently and noticed newspapers strewn about, banana peels here and there and graffiti all over the floor from front to back – as I did recently – there’s a reason: in response to ongoing budget deficits, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) cut 14 transit car cleaners on January 25, leaving 84.
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Rwanda Genocide: Honoring the Dead Without Honoring the Lies
On April 7 the United Nations began its annual commemoration of the anniversary of what we know as the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, in which as many as a million Rwandans may have died.
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“Climategate” Researchers Largely Cleared
The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee said Wednesday that they’d seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit or its director, Phil Jones, had tampered with data or perverted the peer review process to exaggerate the threat of global warming two of the most serious criticisms levied against the climatologist and his colleagues.
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