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Canadian government indifferent to Israel’s murder of eight of its citizens Canada’s Conservative government has responded to the murder of eight Canadian citizens in an Israeli air strike with a shrug of its shoulders....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:29pm PDT
Population given no warnings as tsunami hits Java, killing hundreds The southern coast of the Indonesian island of Java was hit by a two-metre high tsunami at about 4:15 pm local time last Monday. Despite receiving timely international warnings, Indonesian government ministries and agencies issued no warnings to the threatened areas....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:27pm PDT
Health Security Ordinance Passed Unanimously “They said it couldn’t be done,” commented Board President Aaron Peskin in regard to San Francisco’s push for universal health care. But at last, after seventeen separate hearings scrutinizing and re-scrutinizing every stipulate of Tom Ammiano’s Health Security Ordinance, the measure was passed unanimously at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Even before the final vote, one could sense Ammiano’s confidence in the headway the legislation had made as he spoke before the board....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:07am PDT
Mirkarimi Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Code Enforcement Outreach Program Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi will host an art opening this Friday that will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Code Enforcement Outreach Program (CEOP). The opening will feature the photography of CEOP coordinator James Sanbonmatsu, whose photographs document the startlingly unsafe conditions in some of San Francisco’s rental units – conditions that CEOP has proved remarkably successful at improving. The event will be from 5-8 pm at Room 282 of City Hall....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:06am PDT
Sellouts in the Bayview adversely impact innocent constituents mostly in Public Housing Hundreds of homes are boarded up and constituents in Public Housing at Hunters Point told to move to other locations. Often it is like jumping from the frying pan to the fire. The City and County of San Francisco does not care about poor folks and those that need help. At the same time there are plans drawn to tear down Public Housing and build brand new housing for those that do not live there now. More housing for Whip Cream and those that can afford Market Price housing. Of course that wo...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 6:21pm PDT
WHO: Lebanese Residents Displaced by Israeli Bombardment Expected to Top 900,000 Israel continues to target Lebanon's infrastructure and bomb civilian neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization expects the number of Lebanese residents displaced by the assault to reach 900,000 by the end of today. We go to Beirut to get a report from Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 8:00am PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom King of B L I N G Mayor Gavin Newsom is also the King of B L I N G. His vision to bring the Summer Olympics in 2016, encourage San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to steal thousands of acres using Blight, Emminent Domain, High Density, and using the tool Tax Increment to the detriment of thousands of Bayview Hunters Point and Visitation Valley constituents. We have yet to see a sound Environmental Impact Report - we have yet to see a sound Socio-Economic Report that
addresses the critical factors and adversel...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:52am PDT
Breaking Story- Oakland Public Housing Tenants Exonerated Former Oakland Housing Authority Employee Declares Tenants Facing Eviction At Lockwood Gardens Are Innocent!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 1:32pm PDT
Race, Class and the Battle for South Central Farm When the Los Angeles City Council sold the 14 acre plot called the South Central Farm to developer Ralph Horowitz, they sold land they didn't own....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:47am PDT
Broad Community Support Shown for Inclusionary Housing Changes Wednesday afternoon the Land Use and Economic Development Committee listened to the findings from official studies conducted by both the San Francisco Planning Department and the Office of the Controller on proposed amendments to the Inclusionary Housing Program in San Francisco. The legislation would increase the percentage of affordable housing required for all residential developments of 10 units or more. In addition, it would adjust the way that median income is calculated. And finally, o...
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:40am PDT
Trinity Plaza Apartments Moving Forward A proposal to build approximately 1,900 units of rental housing on the corner of 8th and Market will face its final hurdles in the coming weeks, as developers of Trinity Plaza Apartments seek final project approval at the Planning Commission on August 3. The project then heads to the Board of Supervisors. Seen as a key to the revitalization of the Mid-Market neighborhood, Trinity Plaza has moved forward while progress on other major developments in San Francisco has slowed. All eyes will like...
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:40am PDT
Cardiac glycosides in prevention of ischemic stroke Brazilian study confirm the findings of Duke University Medical Center researchers that cardiac glycosides provide neuroprotection in stroke occurrence. It was a study of 28 years that showed a low mortality for stroke in 1150 cardiac patients taking these drugs....
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 7:14am PDT
Haight Supermarket Fight Raises Bay Area-wide Issues The closing of the full-service, unionized Cala Foods in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district has prompted a neighborhood battle over the future use of the site. Longtime neighborhood builder John Brennan purchased the property, and plans to construct between 50 and 60 condominiums above a new full-service supermarket. Opponents of the project believe the proposed 176 underground parking spaces will create a traffic nightmare, and many prefer affordable housing to condos (though Brennan re...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 6:29am PDT
Health Care Ordinance to Undergo Further Scrutiny While this week’s meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee did provide one important answer, it raised several more questions. For weeks, residents, politicians, and supervisors alike have wondered with whom Mayor Gavin Newsom would side on the issue of health care. Once again, Newsom has found himself torn between the interests of the labor and business community. Tuesday morning, advocates from both sides voiced the competing interests, demands, and threats the mayor has entertained as o...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 6:28am PDT
ALTERNATIVE SEXUAL HEALTH CONFERENCE the Women’s Choice Clinic
570 14th St b/t Jefferson and Clay near Downtown Oakland/12th St BART...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 8:08pm PDT
Diabetes and Depleted Uranium Italian Embassy Cover up Continues...
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 11:17am PDT
Berkeley Shows San Francisco How to Address Inclusionary Housing On Wednesday July 12, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee will consider long delayed reforms to the city’s inclusionary housing ordinance. The most recent hearing on May 10 was continued pending the completion of a Planning Department/Mayor’s Office of Housing study of the current law, a report whose production has delayed the passage of a stronger affordable housing law for several months. Two weeks ago, the city of Berkeley revised its inclusionary law---long more stri...
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:04am PDT
Mayor Allows Tenant "Common Space" Legislation to Become Law Tenants scored a victory last Friday night when Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed legislation preventing landlords from severing services from a rental unit to become law. The proposal, sponsored by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, did not receive the necessary eight votes at the Board of Supervisors to override a mayoral veto, but Newsom decided to allow the measure to take effect. As a result, landlords can no longer remove parking spaces, laundry facilities, and a variety of other amenities from tenant...
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:03am PDT
SCRP Endorses Mission St Apt. Project Local citizen planning group approves new housing proposal...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:27pm PDT
The Front Line -- Methamphetamine Use Rises Among Bay Area Asians As experts and media around the country debate the impact of methamphetamine, counselors and law enforcement officials working on San Francisco frontlines agree that it's becoming the drug of choice among Bay Area Asians. Mike Konishita, director of intake for Asian American Recovery Services Inc. sees the stigma attached to drug use among Asians as a major reason for why the spike in meth is largely off the public radar....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 10:16pm PDT
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