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The voter-established Measure K Committee meets today at 5:30 PM at City Council chambers. This Committee, passed by 64% of the voters in 2006, but repeatedly obstructed by City Council, is charged with seeing that Marijuana use, cultivation, sales, possesion, etc. for adults on private property is the lowest enforcement priority The most senior member of the Committee, Med-Ex Distributor and long-time community activist is Anita Henry. She reports an unresponsive staff, a crippled ordinan...

Monday, December 15, 2008 : When Mayor Gavin Newsom addressed the Supervisors on December 9th about mid-year budget cuts, he offered few details and said there would be no supplemental de-appropriation – relegating the Board to being mere bystanders. The December 12th hearing at the Board’s Government Audit Committee tried to change that, as Supervisor Aaron Peskin proposed $8.5 million in cuts to the Opera, Police, Fire and Newsom’s press office....

Friday, December 12, 2008 : A good turnout of advocates came to City Hall yesterday to hold a “mock funeral” for the many social programs facing the axe under Mayor Gavin Newsom’s mid-year budget cuts. Newsom will slash $10 million in health care services, which is less than what he first proposed –but it still means some programs like the Adult Day Health Center will be cut....

Help us organize the people's bailout event in Modesto CA!...

Since Gary Webb’s suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late journalist’s important contribution to the historical record -- he forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s....

Lennar has no money and will not build a single home at Hunters Point and Candlestick Point. Much like Mare Island. Lennar - promised to build 10,000 homes on Mare Island and today Mare Island is on the auction block. Mayor Gavin Newsom is in bed with Lennar and it is just a matter of time - when his dubious ploys will be exposed. The Mayor can sign what he deems right - but the fact of the matter is Lennar is a Rogue Company and can never be trusted....

Margaret Brodkin may be head strong - but all for one good cause - to do all it takes to save and help our children. It would be wise for Mayor Gavin Newsom - to stay away from a Department that is doing all it can to save our children. It may not be perfect - but it does attend to the majority of our children's concerns. If the Mayor has any faint hope that he can fire or remove Margaret Brodkin - he will be in for a very rude awakening....

Police services are the largest single expenditure of the city alone and account for more than 25% of the budget. But come a budget crisis, the first thing that is on the block is the community center in the only primarily Spanish-speaking part of town....

California State Senator Mark Leno will talk about the prospect for California health care reform in 2009 at the Annual Potluck Healthcare meeting of the SF grassroots single payer advocacy group, "Single Payer Now", on Sunday, 12/14/08, 3 pm, at St. Mary's Cathedral....

Governor Schwarzenegger used his line-item veto power to eliminate $150 million in tax rebates to low-income elderly and disabled renters. This was the governor's single biggest line-item veto in the budget, eliminating all funding for renters under the Senior Citizens Renters Tax Assistance program. The program, in effect for decades, made senior and disabled renters who earn less than $44,096 eligible for up to $347.50 as a tax rebate. Last year, 467,000 tenant households received paymen...