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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 :I took a lot of heat for suggesting that progressives should not run a candidate for Mayor, but what policy goals are not getting accomplished because Newsom is in office? If the Mayor won't support legislation, progressives can often gather enough votes at the Board of Supervisors to override a veto....

Host Howard Vicini examines the question, "Repeal or Replace Medicare Part D?" with guests, San Francisco Gray Panthers, Michael Lyon and Mitzi Raas....

Oakland's Section 8 Housing Voucher Reserves Are Being Looted To Fund A Proposed Project That Intends To Displace Oakland's Low-Income Community At The Tassafaronga Public Housing Village!...

Two weeks ago, I questioned whether it makes sense to challenge Newsom for re-election this November. He’s a very popular Mayor who will be hard to beat, and we can still pass most of our agenda because the Supervisors often have eight votes to override a veto. So when the Board passed the $28 million housing supplemental on May 1st by an 8-3 vote, I expected it would become a reality. But in a shameful display of arrogance, Newsom allowed it to become law without his signature, but said that...

Medi-Cal policy is imposing a share of cost that is unrealistic. Many Medi-Cal recipients are not on welfare but are offered assistance from the government because they make too much money to qualify for welfare but not enough to pay for health care costs. As a result, they must contribute to their healthcare by paying for a portion of the cost of the services they receive. The calculated amounts of share of costs for a family or individual do not consider the monthly housing costs in Calif...

San Franciscans working on the Immigrant portion of the People's Budget meet at City Hall to finalize their "ASKS" and then transmit them to aides from several friendly supervisors. The video shows the beginning and ending of the meeting with the aides. The slideshow in mid-video shows the preliminary planning meeting and more of the meeting with the aides. Ana Perez of CARECEN chaired the meeting. Four-minute QT movie. 57MB....

Local Attorney Says That Reports Make It Seem More Sordid At The BHA Than Things Really Are!...

After a year of struggling to save their homes, the tenants at 1030 Post Street can rest easy – they are covered by rent control, and the landlord’s scheme to make their units “affordable” by raising the rent is dead. On May 21st, an Administrative Law Judge at the San Francisco Rent Board ruled that the units are covered by the Rent Ordinance, as amended last fall by the Board of Supervisors. This concludes the saga of a real estate developer who manipulated a tax-exempt program to “create” ...

Former Boston Globe reporter Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America, will speak by phone on Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, FRSC's late Sunday morning talk show 10 AM - 11:30 AM, May 27th. Whitaker has done recent research on the 24-fold increase in diagnosis of youth "requiring" psychiatric medication and its devastating impact....

Troubles At The Bekeley Housing Authority Result In The Proposal Of Mass Firings!...