Amanda Witherell

Money is power

Green City: PG&E spent a record-breaking $10.3 million against Prop H -- more than $53 per vote

11.11.08 - 9:48 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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GREEN CITY While the latest public power proposal was soundly defeated at the polls, the apparent failure of a pair of electricity generation initiatives backed by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is fueling an existing plan to create more city-owned energy projects.

Proposition H, which would have moved the city toward 100 percent renewable energy by 2040 and allowed public power to help meet that goal, lost Nov. Read more »

My call with Rose Aguilar

11.11.08 - 3:02 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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By Amanda Witherell

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Local KALW "Your Call" radio show host Rose Aguilar has written a fascinating account of her six-month road trip through four “red” states interviewing people about their lives and asking them why they vote the way they do. Read more »

Food + bikes = fun

11.07.08 - 2:19 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

Are you in search of good food? Are you on your bike when you’re looking for it? Do you want to join a bunch of other people on bikes chasing down good food? Food justice activist Antonio Roman-Alcala will be leading a bike tour this Sunday, Nov. Read more »

Newsom laments Prop 8 win

11.05.08 - 1:58 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

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Mayor Gavin Newsom in the Prop 8 spotlight. Photo by Luke Thomas, Fog City Journal

Mayor Gavin Newsom expressed equal awe over seeing an African American elected president of the United States and a ban on gay marriage in California. “First and foremost it was an extraordinary night last night…for the country…and for civil rights,” he said at a crowded city hall press conference on the day after the election. Read more »

Newsom's green words for Obama

11.05.08 - 9:36 am | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

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photo courtesy of Green Guerrillas against Greenwash

Environmental news web site, Grist, tapped a short list of people perceived as environmentalists and asked them to "imagine they found themselves in an elevator with the president-elect -- giving them one minute of his undivided attention."

Top of their list: our Mayor Gavin Newsom. Read more »

Power possibilities

Green City: The city's energy policy is still uncertain

11.04.08 - 10:36 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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By Amanda Witherell

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GREEN CITY San Francisco's energy future is in flux. On Nov. 4, voters decided the fate of Proposition H, a plan for 100 percent renewable energy by 2040. Read more »

Obama wins, but no SF results yet

11.04.08 - 8:00 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

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Soon to be Assemblymember Tom Ammiano greeted by supporters at Campos for Supervisor headquarters

Up and down Valencia Street you could hear cheers echoing from bars and balconies when Florida flipped for Barack Obama. We have a new president.

But here in San Francisco, the new slate of supervisors is still pending. Outgoing supervisor Tom Ammiano just stopped by the David Campos headquarters at 24th and Mission Streets. Read more »

Guerrilla campaigning in District 1

10.30.08 - 11:36 am | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

Our SFBG email inbox contained these photos this morning, sent by "Subcomandante Marcos" who said they were a "guerrilla street response to your excellent story in this week's issue."

For those who missed it, here's the story.

And more photos from Marcos. Read more »

Yes on Prop H rally at PG&E's house

10.29.08 - 3:04 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

Clean Energy Act supporters gathered in front of Pacific Gas & Electric corporate headquarters on Wed., Aug. Read more »

Downtown's planner

Former planning commissioner Sue Lee rakes in big bucks from developers with projects she voted to approve

10.28.08 - 11:56 pm | Amanda Witherell |

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The battle for the district 1 supervisor's seat is being framed largely by politically conservative groups, funded by real estate and development, that are spending thousands of dollars supporting former planning commissioner Sue Lee over school board member Eric Mar.

An incestuous web of independent expenditure and political action committees have collectively spent enough against Mar to blow the $140,000 cap off the voluntary expenditure ceiling that all the candidates in that district agreed to.

The money's coming from the Building Owners and Managers Associati Read more »