With his re-election just months away, Mayor Gavin Newsom has no credible opponent in sight – and his approval ratings remain high. But many are dissatisfied with a Mayor who governs by press release – with the city’s climbing homicide
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A discussion on the Google/Earthlink Wi-Fi proposal at Modern Times Bookstore seemed like it would be a night of progressive activists preaching to themselves about the horrors of the city’s plan – after moderator Annalee Newitz announced that not for
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I just got back from Oaxaca in Mexico, where I grew up as a small child and visit every two years. My father’s family is in Oaxaca City, Tlacolula, and Tehuantepec and to me they are a fascinating slice of
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My name is Scott Stevens, and I am an SRO tenant at the Star Hotel in the Mission District. Recently, I enrolled in a writer’s workshop called “’Sho you write” – taught by a wonderful teacher named Flo Mayberry. Ms.
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Early last week, the Community Advisory Committee on Student Enrollment Recruitment and Retention (CACSERR) unveiled to the Board of Education (BOE) the informative and inspiring findings of six months worth of community discussions. Coming in the midst of tense negotiations
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Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 50-48 to defeat a Republican amendment that would have removed a withdrawal date from the Iraq budget supplemental. On March 23, the House passed a budget that creates an actual deadline to get out of
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