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SF Board of Supervisors have NO clue what they are talking about!
Just watch the idiots speaking in Room 250 and you get an idea how much our SF Board of Supervisors (BOS) really know about Transportation Issues and other pertinent Quality of Life Issues affecting the constituents of San Francisco. Right now, Aaron Peskin thinks he can take on the MUNI drivers and the MUNI UNION - dead wrong....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 5:44am PDT
Fresno Takes a Step Forward
Fresno mayor Alan Autry announced today that the City of Fresno, in a joint project with the County, will set up a homeless center in the downtown area. The center would provide this communities large homeless population a place to put up a tent, there will be portable toilets, trash bins, and a facility (probably a trailer) where homeless people can get information about social services like job training, employment, etc....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 5:01pm PDT
Lawfirm Gets Waiver, In Oakland VS OHA Lawsuit
Oakland City Council Gives Waiver To GOLDFARB & LIPMAN, Despite Potential Conflict of Interest, In Oakland VS Oakland Housing Authority Lawsuit!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 8:40am PDT
SF Transit Effectiveness Program Policy Advisory Group Ignores the Disabled
The Transit Effectiveness Program (TEP) has had lots of meetings since our last column, but still some of the same problems mentioned months ago are still evident, still unresponded to or unanswered by officialdom, and also unremarked upon by the larger City Hall political glitterati....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:27am PDT
Health Department Moves To Kill SRO Collaboratives
After ruling that Ruby Rippey-Tourk’s alcohol problem represented a “catastrophic illness,” San Francisco Health Director Mitch Katz now seeks to kill the city’s most effective program for addressing the needs of formerly homeless single adults living in SRO’s. After initially seeking to cut the funding for SRO Collaboratives by $100,000, Katz will ask the Health Commission today to approve a budget that would eliminate funding for the $850,000 program entirely. Neither Katz nor any member of...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:26am PDT
City Sells Hunters Point to Lennar as Activists Revive Referendum
Opponents of the Bayview Redevelopment Plan – who last year gathered 33,000 signatures to challenge it at the ballot box – yesterday filed for a court injunction to get the City to validate the signatures. Last September, City Attorney Dennis Herrera issued an opinion that the signatures were invalid because the petitions did not include all 500 pages of the Plan. If upheld, Herrera’s opinion would effectively eviscerate the right to challenge any law by referendum – as no petition-gatherer c...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:25am PDT
Laguna Honda needs help - our Elderly need protection and good care
Laguna Honda has been infested with patients who are drug addicts who prey upon the Elderly and those patients that cannot defend themselves. Mayor Gavin Newsom and Dr. Mitch Katz think nothing about this ploy and this NONSENSE must stop at once. John Kanaley wants to do something and he should take immediate action NOT to use use Laguna Honda as a Drug Rehabilitation Center. Laguna Honda should be used to house our Elderly and those that cannot take care of themselves. For sure the drug addi...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 6:58am PDT
Muni Transit Riders Petition for Redress of Grievances
Have you signed the Muni transit riders petition? You have to read it to comprehend the magnitude of the problem at 4th and King where CalTrain riders transfer from/to the T train or J Church, complicated by the baseball stadium swindle crowds to their "private" stadium subsidized with public transit, police, fire, ambulance, sewer, water, etc....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 8:45pm PDT
Susan Leal continues to defy constituents from San Francisco
Susan Leal continues to openly defy constituents of San Francisco by wasting millions of dollars. There are instances of blatant discrimination, waste of millions of dollars, projects that are months behind the time lines, and hiring of consultants and inner circle friends NOT based on experience -costing tax payers millions of dollars....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 5:28pm PDT
Too many vacancies in SF's nonprofit SRO hotels?
Why are there empty rooms in nonprofit SRO hotels,
when thousands remain homeless in San Francisco?...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 5:12pm PDT
Bring back the MUNI 15-Third Bus line
The $700 million T-Third Street Light Rail is an abject failure....
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 6:41pm PDT
Failed T Line is 1st Stage; Central Subway Part Way to Chinatown is Next Horror
If you have not had enough of the disaster in capitalist "planning" with the failed T Train line, you should know the horror show has just begun, courtesy millions of our hard-earned tax dollars. The next stage is the Central Subway EXTENDING the T line from 4th & King to Clay and Stockton, with no connection to the Market Street subway!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 12:22pm PDT
Dumbarton Dialogue Project--Multi Jurisdictional Meeting
The Dumbarton Dialogue will continue with the community dialogue to define the top 10 criteria for projects on Saturday, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the City of East Palo Alto Municipal Building, 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto. The meetings will bring to together interested individuals from the six participating cities – East Palo Alto, Atherton, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Redwood City. The public is encouraged to attend and participate. For more information c...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 3:34pm PDT
Democrat "Mayor" Newsom Cannot Run Train System
The reintroduction of one train route is apparently causing havoc with the Muni Metro system and all above ground trains and buses. This is how the Democratic Party machine of San Francisco, led by election fraud "mayor" Gavin Newsom, runs for re(s)election this year. We had better have a Green Party candidate for mayor....
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 3:48am PDT
Landlord Threatens Restraining Order Against Senior Tenant – For Paying Rent
As Jose Morales fights to save his home from the Ellis Act, his landlord has now threatened a restraining order against him if he continues to pay his rent. On April 6th, eviction lawyer James Kraus notified Morales’ attorney, Raquel Fox of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (T.H.C.), that they were no longer accepting his rent – and accused T.H.C. of attempting to trick the landlord into cashing Morales’ check. Kraus went on to explain that the Ellis Act notice had “recently expired,” although it...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 6:42am PDT
Mayor Alan Autry Undermines the Homeless
A majority of Fresno City Council members want to install portable toilets and a trash bin near a downtown homeless encampment. Mayor Alan Autry is opposed and City Manager Andrew Souza says they will not act on the council’s request....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 4:17pm PDT
African American Exodus from San Francisco
Worrying about losing our African American citizens is too little too late....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 2:11pm PDT
Rent Board Commisioners Turn Blind Eye to Landlord Fraud
This is the story of a uniquely San Francisco protection racket - scofflaws protecting scofflaws. Let’s say you are a San Francisco tenant whose landlord has filed a petition at the Rent Board to get extra rent from her tenants by claiming capital improvements. Under the San Francisco rent control ordinance, landlords are permitted to pass through to tenants half the costs of genuine capital improvements....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:16am PDT
Housing Activists Take Over Ellised Building
More than 150 housing rights activists marched through the Mission District on April 7 to demand better protections for renters in San Francisco and reforms to the Ellis Act. The march ended at a vacant building that other activists had occupied in a non-violent protest....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:19pm PDT
4/10 SF Kaiser Rally HELLthcare at Kaiser Permante
Kaiser is denying care to people who should be gettig healthcare so they can die without costing
Kaiser any more money...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 5:38pm PDT