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Say It Ain’t So, Chiu
Supervisor David Chiu threatened the use of a procedural motion to reject the SFMTA’s proposed fare hikes and service cuts due to a $129 million SFMTA budget shortfall, but then renegged yesterday by tabling his…
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Star Trek Movie Review: The Ties that Bind
By Hope Johnson May 11, 2009 Star Trek, the latest entry in the legendary sci-fi series, collected a deserved $72.5 million in its opening weekend. The film is so unexpectedly wonderful, this Trekkie was brought…
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Give the Working Class a Fighting Chance
By Adriel Hampton May 11, 2009 Workers rallied last week in San Francisco and throughout the U.S. for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill in Congress with the great potential to strengthen…
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Stay Tuned: Tourk It Up a Notch
Tourking it up a notch, hired gun Alex Tourk rubs shoulders with the new Billy Whiz kid on the block, BOS Prez David Chiu, following Chiu’s soliloquy to the building tradesters Tuesday. Photos by Luke…
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Ethics Commission Airs Dirty Laundry
Inadequate Sunshine investigation may lead AG Brown to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Mayor Gavin Newsom By Joe Lynn May 7, 2009 By the end of an April 24th joint meeting of the Sunshine…
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Nicholas Olczak May 5, 2009 When Suraj Ghulam Habib was six years old, she saw what she thought was a can of food buried in the ground near her home in Afghanistan. The can…
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Recurrent Dilemmas at the Sunset Reservoir
A proposal by Recurrent Energy to own and operate a 5 megawatt energy-producing solar voltaic farm on the Sunset Reservoir in San Francisco, requires more scrutiny and analysis. Illustration courtesy Recurrent Energy By Julian Davis…
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