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Losing a 'Voice
Why regulators should block the Village Voice-New Times deal
By Tim Redmond

The Y factor
Is Mills Corp. using the YMCA as a beard for its waterfront mall?
By Steven T. Jones

Inside track
Property owners are getting savvy about asking for tax breaks. What will the next assessor do about it?
By Matthew Hirsch

Oped: Save Section 8

Editorial: Pass the pot-club law

Editorial: Make Pelosi listen

In This Issue

Talkback

Neighborhood Business: Biz Tips

Neighborhood Business: Charge cars
Local car hackers help San Franciscans plug into the future.
By Forrest Caskey

Lit: Declarations of independence
How creators of underground comics manage to keep thriving in the Bay Area
By Heather Smith

Lit: Nonlinear accelerator
By Michelle Tea

Lit: The Lit interview: Thomas Cleary
An Oakland author and translator ranges through the many worlds of spiritual life
By Daniel Burton-Rose

Lit: The poet's nose
By Paul Reidinger

Lit: The museum and the muse
A reader ponders the modern with the help of Malraux and McLuhan
By Chaim Bertman

Lit: Short reviews

Lit: Welfare for the rich
Read The War at Home and find out who's winning the class war. You won't be surprised
By Tom Gallagher

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Community Internet: Broadband as a Public Utility
From Freepress.net: Hundreds of cities and towns are launching Community Internet systems that promise universal, affordable access to high-speed broadband services.
Now telecom and cable lobbyists are pushing a federal bill that would outlaw Community Internet and municipal broadband everywhere.
Stop this disastrous bill. Send a letter to Congress now.

Journalists under fire
Press freedom alerts, journalists in high risk zones, digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe, and links to national and international organizations working for press freedom

Freedom of information
Alerts, news and commentary on sunshine, open government and first amendment issues. This week from the California First Amendment Coalition: The Jacko Exception to the First Amendment - For persons who care about public access to trials, the Michael Jackson case has been a nightmare.