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Get Sick, File Bankruptcy 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
OHM Meeting - Healing With Hormones Cathedral Hill Hotel
Van Ness & Geary...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 10:02pm PST
OHM Meeting - Healing With Hormones Cathedral Hill Hotel
Van Ness & Geary...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 10:01pm PST
OHM Meeting - Healing With Hormones Cathedral Hill Hotel
Van Ness & Geary...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 10:01pm PST
Hacienda Development - is it a Prison or a Group Home? 
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
Compromise AIDS Funding Advances in U.S. House 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
The Moth Meetings (news stories) 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
Loser Real Estate Market Forecast to Worsen 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
Tenants Together Files Lawsuit to Ensure Prop 98 Ballot Title & Summary Reflect Attack on "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
Peskin Seeks Legislative Solution to Family Housing Exodus 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
Germany: Unemployed man starves himself to death 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
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Opposes FDA Gay Blood Ban (audio/mpeg 1.6MB) 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
Adverse possession: another word for land piracy 
Adverse possession is a legal term for squatting on land and claiming the land. For black farmers, it has been nothing less than land piracy, with billions of dollars in agricultural reas estate stolen out from under them....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 5:10pm PST
What’s wrong with individual health insurance mandates? Individual health insurance mandates have lately been hailed as the solution to the health care crisis in America. Mandates to purchase health insurance have been included in legislative proposals at the state level – for instance, by Gov. Schwarzenegger and Speaker Nunez, in their “Health Care Security and Cost Reduction Act”, or at the federal level, by Hillary Clinton in her “American Health Choice Plan”. Can mandates achieve universal access to health care and control rising costs of medi...
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 5:01pm PST
Why so much money spent on an Initiative and who are these scum bags that take the money? There must be a cap on the amount of money that can be spent on an Initiative. Now, imagine if one spends over $1 million on an Initiative - how much more money is going to be spent on the Ballot - that follows it. Some one must address this situation - where the Pacific Heights Mafia and other such goons can come into any community - and do as they please. Some - of us think that there is justice but what we have found out in San Francisco - there is Racism and blatant INJUSTICE....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 7:27am PST
Nurses Support 9/11 Rescue Workers' Fight for Healthcare Justice Monday, February 25, 2008 : Heartbreaking 9/11 Worker Health Issues Demand Change The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee announces full support for the 9/11 rescue workers struggling to get the healthcare they need in the face of illnesses and injuries associated with their service to the nation at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 7:01am PST
Daly Champions Proposal to Help Skyline Tenants Tuesday, February 26, 2008 : Yesterday, Supervisor Chris Daly called on the Board’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee to approve a proposal that would require property owners to post tenants’ rights in writing during real estate sales transactions. Under Daly’s proposal, owners must disclose this information to tenants, sub-tenants and roommates alike....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 7:00am PST
No on 98 Files Lawsuit to Ensure Ballot Title Summary Accurately Reflects Prop 98 Provisions Tuesday, February 26, 2008 : Yesterday, members of the No on 98 / Yes on 99 coalition filed a lawsuit in Sacramento County Superior Court, asking a judge to change the official title of Proposition 98 to include mention of the measure's rent control provisions. Currently, the official title of the measure prepared by the California Attorney General's Office only informs voters of the measure's eminent domain provisions, and excludes any mention of eliminating rent control, which is one of Pro...
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 6:59am PST
AIMCO Hearing - Room 263 - 1 p.m. San Francisco City Hall San Francisco City Hall - Room 263....
Event Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 1:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 8:49pm PST
Teen Boys Succumb To Eating Disorders A new study has found that boys are
dieting, purging, and exercising more than ever before and that ethnic
differences in weight control behavior persists among girls....
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 1:46pm PST
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