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Supervisor Tom Ammiano’s universal health care legislation that requires employers to either provide health care or pay the cost of care into a fund now has a veto-proof eight co-sponsors. Since the measure was modeled after the so-called “Burton bill” that was narrowly overturned in a November 2004 referendum (Prop 172) but won 72% support in San Francisco, the “will of the voters” seems clear. But last week, Mayor Newsom offered a universal health care plan that relied on voluntary, rather ...

Over the weekend of June 24 and 25, about a dozen Santa Cruz activists busied themselves at the Live Oak Grange sorting medical suppilies, soaps, books, pens, and automotive parts among other items, as part of the Pastors for Peace 2006 Cuba Friend-Shipment Caravan. I spoke with a number of them as they made preparations for the trip....

On June 24, peace and human rights activists spent their day at the Live Oak Grange preparing the Santa Cruz contingent of this years Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba. This is the 17th year our fellow community members have challenged the travel ban to Cuba as well as the inhumane embargo on Cuba by our government. Volunteers did a quality inspection of donated supplies before loading them onto the dontated Ambulance, former Police SWAT wagon, and Peace Mobile. Other people put their handpri...

Mayor Gavin Newsom and Sophie Maxwell have no consensus from the public at large to decide what is best for folks that live and work on Illinois Street. Sophie Maxwell will go with the flow because she is not educated on issues. The Board of Supervisors may think they voted right but as any sensible person knows the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or Study on any important project is a must. While bike lanes may benefit some in other areas - it adversely impacts those in a industrial area. ...

It is 27 years late, but the San Francisco Chronicle has finally discovered that San Francisco is becoming a city of the rich and poor. The paper’s June 22 banner headline “RICH CITY POOR CITY” discussed a Brookings Institution finding that middle-class neighborhoods are declining in urban America, and the Chronicle then found evidence for this thesis in San Francisco. But the Chronicle story left out some critical facts that undermine its conclusion that neighborhoods like the Western Additi...

The Referendum against SF Redevelopment and the Bayview Hunters Point Project area is going strong. By the end of this month we hope to collect over 30,000 signatures. So far we have over 10,000 and the movement is going strong. We see the absence of the Main Media and crooked developers staying out - testing the WILL of the people. San Francisco and San Franciscans have always stood for Justive and Fair Play and this time around the SF Redevelopment Agency and its cronies will be defeated....

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They said it couldn’t be done, but in less than three weeks, more than 7,000 San Franciscans have signed the petition to stop the Redevelopment Agency from grabbing and “repeopling” Bayview Hunters Point. At that rate, we’ll have the needed 30,000 signatures (21,000 plus a cushion) well before the Aug. 21 deadline....

City of Fresno attacks on the homeless reached a new level today as a multi agency task force used new tactics in destroying their possessions. Photos, video, and story below....

The Land Use and Economic Development Committee considered a resolution Wednesday that urges the Civic Center Hotel’s owner, the U.A. Local 38 Pension Trust Fund, to seismically retrofit it for earthquake preparedness and bring it up to building code....