In the last five years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has gone from being a media darling to generating more bad press for itself than any other labor organization. Some of SEIU’s negative publicity is a product of right-wing
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Today is the last day for the Board of Supervisors Budget Committee to debate and make changes to Mayor Newsom’s budget for the upcoming year. It’s the day when Budget Chair John Avalos and Board President David Chiu negotiate with
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SHARP PARK GOLF Course in Pacifica is the focus of a fight by environmental activists who want the course CONVERTED into a HABITAT for the San Francisco garter snake and the California red-legged FROG!!! Golfers who play the course, and
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow argued last week “the last time any president did this much in office, booze was illegal,” with “nothing this big happening since FDR.” Maddow’s assessment was prompted by last week’s deal on Wall Street reform, and she
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Lou Correa, a Democratic State Senator from Orange County, has killed the nation’s first bill to stop predatory investments that displace renters from their homes. The bill, AB 2337, authored by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), sought to ban the
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Tim Wolff’s documentary “The Sons of Tennessee Williams” looked at how gay Mardi Gras krewes arose in New Orleans during the 1960s. Home movies, period footage, and reminiscences by survivors helped paint a portrait of organizations which helped New Orleans
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It looks as if porn internet sites may soon operate in their own cyberspace red-light district. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit in charges of domain names and IP addresses, has decided to give porn sites
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