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For the first time since San Francisco reinstated district elections in 2000, an incumbent supervisor is not assured of victory a week before Election Day. Since downtown businesses, BOMA, the Plumbers Union, the Police Officers Association, and other opponents of Supervisor Chris Daly have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on mailers attacking him, Daly’s negatives have been raised enough to put his once-certain re-election in doubt. In a district where only 13,000 residents cast ballot...

Peace and Freedom favorite 3rd party of student voters...

This is a call to action to the progressive community to come out and volunteer (or donate) to elect Aimee Allison to City Council, District 2 in Oakland with the same passion and vigor that we elected Ron Dellums in June. Oakland's future stands in the balance. Join me with the same passion that we stand together for Oakland's youth, as this election will truly determine the direction of our City and our youth....

In the ninth paragraph of a ten graph story on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors support for police foot patrols, the October 25 San Francisco Chronicle noted that “the board voted unanimously to place $2.5 million requested by the mayor’s office for police overtime and other law enforcement funding on hold until supervisors consider authorizing the spending later in the year.” The paper also cited the budget analyst’s conclusion that the funding request was premature. But on September 2...

Today voters need to beware when going to the polls to vote because much is at stake. Voters need to study the propositions and read their Official Voter Information Guide; and for those who will not, they need to vote no to spending their hard earn dollars and the future savings of our children. Voters should not be persuaded by expensive TV commercials because those commercials are more expensive than what we can realize....

Had enough of Nancy Pelosi's opposition to impeachment? Come meet Ms. Pelosi's remarkable, pro-impeachment, pro-peace, progressive Green Party opponent, Krissy Keefer, at an event tonight (9pm to 11pm) in San Francisco's Western Addition....

San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell will be easily re-elected on November 7. Maxwell pledged in 2001 to help preserve the city’s economic and racial diversity, but has increasingly moved to undermine this goal. She has promoted upscale development in the low-income African-American neighborhoods of Bayview and Hunters Point, and last week endorsed Lennar’s breaking its agreement to build 400 rental units at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Maxwell is also urging her colleagues to kill Angelo S...

Del Norte County, District 5, School Board candidates, Beth Green and Tom Cochran, participated in a community question and answer event at the Yurok Tribal Offices October 16th, 2006. The event was moderated by Education Director Jim McQuillen....

Day of Action is in Pleasanton at Civic Park, 100 Main Street. Van from Santa Cruz leaves from the parking lot next to the Calvary Episcopal Church, 532 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA...

“Affordable housing” has emerged as a key issue in the District 8 race for supervisor, and it’s appropriate that it has. But I believe there’s an even more crucial issue: the survival of the Castro as a center of queer culture. No one can deny that the world’s most infamous queer ghetto has changed a lot since Harvey Milk called it home. Back then, it was undeniably a place where queers gathered from all over the country. They were refugees from the American Dream. The Castro afforded them a ...