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textCPMC RNs Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize 10-day Strike Against Sutter by via CalNurses
Nurses Concerned Over Serious, Ongoing Patient Care Problems Throughout System 5,000 Nurses at 11 Facilities to Vote to Authorize Strike...
Posted: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 10:36am PST
textTime to Review Muni's Overhaul Plan by Heather World via Beyond Chron
Friday, February 29, 2008 : The MTA gave its Citizens’ Advisory Committee a look at the proposed changes to the city’s public transportation Wednesday night, some of which are fairly drastic and sure to raise controversy. Fear not! You have a season of public meetings ahead of you to put in your complaints or compliments. There are, essentially, four proposals to examine....
Posted: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 10:34am PST
textLennar's - Archilles Heel - lack of genuine community support all over San Francisco by Francisco Da Costa
Lennar simply does not get it. In San Francisco you just cannot come in and steal the land - and buy some corrupt folks - like Mayor Gavin Newsom and think that all is well. Lennar's, Achilles Heel is lack of genuine community support - all over San Francisco. Also, its filthy track record of using deceit and building inferior homes on toxic land. Lennar in one instance built a school near unexploded bombs - the bombs were carried in the dirt - from one area into the school area - complete wi...
Posted: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 10:50pm PST
imageAre Tumors, Abscesses, and Downed Cows in your Hamburger?
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by Mike Rhodes
143 million pounds of recalled meat may be just the beginning. The story below calls into question the practices of a Fresno meat processing plant where workers say downer cows, tumors, and abscesses are being ground into hamburger. The general manager of the Fresno plant says the workers are wrong and that they would never do anything like that....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 7:52pm PST
textFunding for HIV/AIDS prevention tripled by House panel by infection Protection
A House panel today voted to more than triple spending for a global AIDS program that has proven to be one of the Bush administration’s most successful foreign policy initiatives....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 11:29am PST
textOakland PD has 40% absentee rate, daily by KGO repost
OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Next Tuesday, the Oakland City Council will vote on Mayor Ron Dellums' request for $7.7 million dollars to recruit and train more police officers. What about getting the officers already in the department to show up for work? We went to Oakland and tried to get top city and police officials to reveal what they're doing to reduce the department's staggering absentee rate....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 10:23am PST
textBerkeley Council Calls for Full Court Press to Stop Spray by Daily Planet (reposted)
The state secretary of agriculture failed to convince the Berkeley City Council Tuesday night that aerial spraying of a pesticide to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) is either necessary or benign....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 8:10am PST
textPaid Sick Leave Bill Introduced at State Level by Yevgeniy Sverdlik via Beyond Chron
Thursday, February 28, 2008 : Assemblywoman Fiona Ma announced a bill yesterday which, if passed, would require all California employers to provide paid time off to their employees when they are sick or need time to take care of their sick family members. AB2716, introduced in the State Assembly last week, would make it possible for each employee to take one hour of paid time off for every 30 hours of work....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 7:56am PST
textGet Sick, File Bankruptcy by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca via Beyond Chron
Thursday, February 28, 2008 : As the country moves closer to the point where there’s only two major candidates for president (and of course perennial contender Ralph Nader), some staggering facts are in order to put in focus one of the most important issues of this election year, other than ending the war: Universal health care for all....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 7:38am PST
calendarOHM Meeting - Healing With Hormones by Paul Kangas
Cathedral Hill Hotel Van Ness & Geary...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 10:02pm PST
calendarOHM Meeting - Healing With Hormones by Paul Kangas
Cathedral Hill Hotel Van Ness & Geary...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 10:01pm PST
calendarOHM Meeting - Healing With Hormones by Paul Kangas
Cathedral Hill Hotel Van Ness & Geary...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 10:01pm PST
imageHacienda Development - is it a Prison or a Group Home?
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by Mike Rhodes
A hearing was held on Tuesday, February 26 at Fresno City Hall to discuss the future of the Hacienda Hotel. Mental Health Systems, Inc want to turn it into what they call a “Female Rehabilitative Community Correctional Center Facility. Opponents say they don’t want a privatized prison in their backyard....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 7:37pm PST
textCompromise AIDS Funding Advances in U.S. House‏ by PlanetWire
A renewal of President Bush’s AIDS program headed to the House floor today after a hard-fought compromise version won committee approval....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 2:35pm PST
textThe Moth Meetings (news stories) by reader
In an 8-1 vote, the [Berkeley] council approved a motion that was drafted collaboratively by several council members during the meeting. However, many activists favored a resolution from Councilmember Dona Spring strongly opposed to the spraying. "I would like to suggest, sir, that you don't promote public health by ramming something down the throats of the public," Spring told a state official to applause from the audience. However, her resolution did not pass because other council me...
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 9:39am PST
textLoser Real Estate Market Forecast to Worsen by Mike Colpitts
The U.S. real estate market down turn has spread into the overall economy as government fails to respond. As a result, Housing Predictor has downgraded its' national forecast....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 9:29am PST
textTenants Together Files Lawsuit to Ensure Prop 98 Ballot Title & Summary Reflect Attack on by forward
"The overwhelming majority of funding behind Prop. 98 comes from landlords. The only reason they're funding this measure is to abolish rent control and other renter protections," said Dean Preston, Executive Director of Tenants Together. "Even the proponents' own ballot arguments list rent control as a principle provision of the initiative. We're simply asking that the title reflect the primary provisions so voters can make an informed decision."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 8:34am PST
textPeskin Seeks Legislative Solution to Family Housing Exodus by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 : San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin introduced legislation yesterday that will meaningfully increase affordable housing opportunities for the city’s working families. The legislation mirrors a proposed ballot measure for June that Peskin had joined with Supervisors Dufty, Maxwell and Mirarimi in supporting; given the Board’s support for the measure, Peskin saw no reason to place it on the June ballot....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 7:25am PST
textGermany: Unemployed man starves himself to death by wsws (reposted)
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 :The demise of a 58-year-old unemployed man who deliberately starved himself to death in a remote hideout in the woods is both a personal tragedy and a devastating indictment of the current state of German society. It says more about conditions in Germany than all the pious speeches of professional politicians and academic studies into poverty and unemployment....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 7:20am PST
audioSanta Clara County Board of Supervisors Opposes FDA Gay Blood Ban (audio/mpeg 1.6MB) by Rose Ketabchi
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously today to formally oppose a lifetime ban on gay male blood donors. Current food and drug administration rules, in effect since 1983, prohibit any man who’s had sex with another man to ever donate blood. Despite criticism from the Red Cross and others, the FDA says the ban is necessary to ensure the safety of blood recipients and should remain in effect. San Jose State University has taken a stand against the FDA prohibition with...
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 7:01pm PST
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