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SF Building Trades are election’s biggest loser
November 14, 2011
The Building Trades tried to kill 1,000 jobs proposed under the Road Repair Bond, Proposition B, because they’d be covered by the new local hire law, which the Plumbers, Electricians, and Sheet Metal Unions oppose.
Mayoral campaigns ask the Justice Department to protect San Franciscans from Interim Mayor Ed Lee
October 24, 2011
Seven San Francisco mayoral candidates have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to send in election observers and monitors and federal investigators to protect San Franciscans’ voting rights from the official mayoral campaign of Interim Mayor Ed Lee and from the “independent expenditure committee” also trying to elect him outside the campaign spending confines of the official campaign.
Sidewalks are still for people, Harvey Milk!
June 23, 2011
On Sidewalks are for People Day, May 22, the people decided to reclaim San Francisco sidewalks. Then Berkeley folks asked, “Can we do that too?” Then Portland folks were like, “We’ll do something simultaneously.”
Supervisors vote to build mega condo, stadium complex on Superfund site
July 14, 2010
Last night, July 13, the SF Board of Supervisors held a 10-hour hearing on the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for Lennar’s proposed 10,000 unit condominium complex, stadium and green tech development at the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site and Candlestick Point. The EIR passed with a 8-3 vote.