Posted June 30, 2010 by Steve Early
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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Posted June 30, 2010 by Paul Hogarth
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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Posted June 30, 2010 by Rochelle Metcalfe
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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Posted June 30, 2010 by
To the Editor:
The comparisons with FDR were common when Obama entered office, but are so few and far between now that I’m surprised Rachel Maddow went there.
Roosevelt used the new mass communication medium of radio to educate Americans
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Posted June 29, 2010 by Randy Shaw
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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Posted June 29, 2010 by Tenants Together
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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Posted June 29, 2010 by Peter Wong
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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Posted June 29, 2010 by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
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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