TABU—DVD Review

Posted October 30, 2013 by Peter Wong

Stories are admittedly manufactured falsehoods. Yet a good storyteller can carefully craft these falsehoods to lead the listener or some other story recipient to a place of recognizable emotional truth. But what happens when the listener prefers to reside in
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To the Editor…

Posted October 30, 2013 by

Dear Editor, As Randy Shaw recently pointed out, voter turnout in municipal elections is in decline. And those who do make it to the polls are highly unrepresentative of the population as a whole. In its recent primary election, New
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Union Square Survey Confirms SF’s Homeless Outreach Failure

Posted October 29, 2013 by Randy Shaw

The most critical facts in the survey of Union Square panhandlers released last weekend are this: 82% are homeless and only 3% did not want housing. The obvious question is why the city’s homeless outreach team (known as “HOT”) has
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Why a Ban on BART Strikes is the Wrong Solution

Posted October 29, 2013 by John Logan

On Friday, BART employees at SEIU and ATU will likely ratify the deal negotiated last week and the following day BART’s Board of Directors will likely vote to approve it. Apart from a few crazies on both the left and
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Talking Spirituality: Ghosts of San Francisco’s Past

Posted October 29, 2013 by Natalie Grigson

BOO! Sorry. Did I scare you? Or merely just surprise you, since I haven’t been around in a couple of weeks? I’ll account for my mysterious disappearance in a moment. For now, let’s get back to the explanation of this
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Can Obama Ever Stand Up to the Oil Industry?

Posted October 29, 2013 by Bill McKibben

X-ray of a flagging presidency: Will Obama block the Keystone XL pipeline or just keep bending? As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline has worn on — and it’s now well over two years old — it’s illuminated the
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To the Editor…

Posted October 29, 2013 by

Great information! We need to learn what other cities are doing to combat this scourge of gentrification (and homelessness)! Keep up the good work!Gracias, This feedback was sent by:Reina Castillo from Burbank, CA Link to the article in question: http://beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=12009
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To the Editor…

Posted October 29, 2013 by

I agree that a lack of local news is a factor in low turnout for local races. The questionable quality of local news reporting of election related issues, when one has it, is also a factor. Aligning local elections with
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