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How San Francisco is Changing, Block by Block As the Board of Supervisors prepares to take up legislation that would dramatically alter the current debate over Ellis Act evictions, a small block in San Francisco's Mission District is undergoing some major changes of its own. A real estate speculator recently purchased five buildings on a one-block stretch of Woodward Street,between Duboce and 14th Street, and quickly invoked the Ellis Act on every one. All the affected sites have between 6 and 12 units, and four of the five buildings hav...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 7:18am PDT
5/9: Stop the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan! let's pack the steps
of City Hall on Tuesday, May 9, at 1:00 for a rally, then go
upstairs at 2:00 for the Board meeting in Room 250!...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 10:55pm PDT
The Looters of Social Security: They're At It Again! They're at it again.
An administration that can't be bothered to look two days ahead to plan for the landfall of a hurricane in New Orleans, that can't be bothered to look three months ahead to plan for the eventuality of conquering and having to run a country, that isn't worried about the inevitable crisis that will be caused for the dollar by running up huge fiscal deficits, that refuses to take steps to curb US fuel consumption despite the clear knowledge that the price of imported oil ...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 9:09am PDT
The Transfer of Parcel A at Hunters Point and related issues The transfer of Parcel A on Hunters Point under the direction of former Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. and Sophie Maxwell has come to haunt San Francisco. One must remember that the constituents of San Francisco voted by over 87% to clean up the entire Hunters Point Shipyard to residential standards. That has not happened. The SF Board of Supervisors, the SF Planning Department, the SF Redevelopment Agency, and of course Lennar Bayview Hunters Point LLC all have agreed to build 1600 homes in the m...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 8:23am PDT
Dangers of sunscreen products: go bare!
avoid Mid Day Sun
Wait till sun is lower in sky for exposure.
ie: at 45' degrees angle, sunburn is not likely....
Posted: Sat, May 6, 2006 3:03pm PDT
Salinas, Watsonville, Santa Cruz Least Affordable Cities in U.S. 
IN 2005, the least-affordable place in the country to live, measured by the percentage of income devoted to mortgage payments, was Salinas, Calif.
The second was the Santa Cruz-Watsonville area of California.
The third? Santa Rosa-Petaluma, Calif....
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 3:52pm PDT
They cut the heart from San Francisco: Open letter to the SF Board of Supervisors Why would San Franciscans care about Bayview Hunters Point? In this small city, SOMA, Haight and Mission dwellers alike know what’s done in the Bayview will happen in all San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 8:43am PDT
Bed-Stuy Documentary Goes on Tour to Raise Awareness About Gun Violence Downtown Community Television is launching an anti-gun violence tour in New York City and elsewhere featuring the award-winning film "Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story." The film was made by two 19 year-olds, raised in Brooklyn's public housing projects, who had lost 11 friends to gun-violence in the streets of New York....
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 8:41am PDT
The murder of Marcus Law, 17, rocks Hunters Point Candlelight vigil Friday 8pm...
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 8:29am PDT
Black Out: The City Sponsored Gentrification of Bayview Hunters Point An interview with Longtime resident and Greenaction organizer Marie Harrison....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 7:04pm PDT
New State Law Threatens Relationship Between Doctor and AIDS Patients Dr. Marcus Conant, one of America's most respected AIDS care physicians, angrily denounced a new California law forcing him to break a basic confidence between himself and patients who are people with AIDS. The new law, signed on April 17 by Governor Schwarzenegger, requires, for the first time, that names of people infected with AIDS be reported to local, state and Federal health care agencies....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 8:48am PDT
Transit Advocates Agree: MUNI Needs More Revenue A broad coalition of almost every transit advocacy group in San Francisco, along with a variety of social justice advocacy groups and environmentalists, declared their unified support yesterday for a platform calling on Muni to immediately seek new sources of revenue to avoid future fare hikes and service cuts. The platform, called ‘San Franciscans for a Better Muni,’ commended the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) for avoiding hikes and cuts this year. However, it also pointed out that d...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 8:47am PDT
On the waterfront -- Oak to Ninth Oaklanders decided to turn Oak to Ninth into a waterfront park, but in a backroom deal, the land was sold to a developer....
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006 2:36pm PDT
Washington renews demand for cuts to Social Security, Medicare The Bush administration, echoed by much of the mass media, seized upon reports released May 1 on the fiscal health of the Social Security and Medicare system to renew its demand for drastic cuts to these two major entitlement programs, thereby gutting retirement benefits and health care for older Americans....
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006 9:01am PDT
How Mayor Gavin Newsom is using the Alice Griffith Project to foster the 49er City Mayor Gavin Newsom is using the Alice Griffith Public Housing Project to further his ploy to develop the proposed 49er City and fool the constituents or so he thinks. Dwayne Jones and other have been using second hand computers and The WiFi technology with the help of Google to cheat poor folks and deceive them. The Alice Griffith Project was protected under the South Bayshore Plan but an amendment as seen to it that vast areas including Alice Griffith can now come under the Project Plan and ...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 5:39pm PDT
25% of world's children underweight The world is failing children despite global commitments to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, Unicef said today....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 8:48am PDT
Oakland Housing Authority Blames Tenants, For Crimes Committed By Staff In the topsy turvy world of the Oakland Housing Authority, the tenants are being blamed for the crimes of the Housing Authority staff members!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 7:29pm PDT
Arcata Anti-Homeless Ordinance Is Unconstitutional "federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday that arresting homeless people for sleeping, sitting or lying on sidewalks and other public property when other shelter is not available was cruel and unusual punishment."
Arcata Municipal Code
TITLE X - PUBLIC PROPERTYCHAPTER 1 - PARKS AND GROUNDS
SEC. 10004. Overnight use prohibited. (Amended by Ord. No. 1205)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 2:02pm PDT
DOES SAN FRANCISCO NEED ANOTHER PLAYGROUND FOR THE WEALTHY? An open meeting to think of ways to confront the gentrification of the Polk....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 11:11am PDT
BVHP Redevelopment Plan: ‘a land grab for the rich’ Today the Finance Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hear the people of Bayview Hunters Point tell them to vote NO on the BVHP Redevelopment Plan. The meeting begins at 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 26, in the Board Chamber, Room 250, City Hall....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 9:12am PDT
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