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Susan Leal is NO engineer but she heads the SF Public Utilities Commission and is paid over $300,000 a year plus perks. Under her ineptness, the Hetch Hetchy project that had four major pipes bringing water from Hetch Hetchy near Yosemite has been reduced to 3 pipes. We have yet to attend to the 900 miles of sewer pipes and over 1900 miles of clean water pipes - all over 70 years old and leaking, all over San Francisco. How can the SFPUC drinking water be clean when the pipes that bring it to...

49ers should stay away from Candlestick Park and the surrounding area it is too polluted. It has been for many, many years. The City and County of San Francisco and Mayor Gavin Newsom should clean up the area. Complete, with the State Park near by that was once a garbage dump site. The near by Yosemite Slough that is full of PCBs. The Shipyard that is a Superfund Site. When it rains the Parking Lot surround Candlestick Park floods - much of the water - polluted....

For a few years now, Russell Shaw has been trying to build about 26 luxury homes on fragile watershed acerage in San Rafael, that contains significant Miwok archeological sites. He recently withdrew his initial plan and submitted a single home construction plan on the Oxford Valley site that many in the neighborhood viewed as an attempt at skirting CEQA requirements....

1. Day of Action for SB 840 – Universal Health Care Act of 2007 2. San Francisco Forum on Health Care, February 23, 2007 3. Women LEAD – Women’s Voices in the Health Care Reform Debate...

Update on the status of Humanity for Homeless, a loose nit organization that feeds and provides cloths to the homeless as well fighting for their rights. Idea for Poor Peoples Union discussed....

San Francisco Supervisor Jake McGoldrick introduced legislation on February 13 that could potentially require builders of two or more units to provide a higher percentage of discounted units than builders of luxury downtown highrises. Prior to July 2006, the city’s inclusionary housing law covered only buildings of ten units or more. McGoldrick sponsored the law reducing this number to the current five, and now wants to reduce the number to two. Ironically, McGoldrick is also carrying legisla...

Oakland City Attorney's Office Lashes Out At The Critics Of The Lawsuit Filed Against Oakland's Housing Authority and The Attack On Public Housing Tenants!...

In September, the Mayor announced that he would use "all of his political capital" to pass a bond measure which would finance the rehabilitation of the City's most distressed public housing developments. While the bond idea was a new one for many of us, the concept of leveraging local funding to rebuild the city's public housing came as no surprise to advocates familiar with the recent trends in federal housing policy....

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As it usually does, Free Radio Santa Cruz (101.1 FM, www.freakradio.org) will air--broadcast conditions willng--the 10th Annual Homelessness Marathon from 4 PM Tuesday February 20th to 6 AM Wednesday February 21st....