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When the assholes take over

08.28.06 - 11:05 am | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

What happens when the people who run the SF Weekly take over a paper in Seattle? It's not pretty. No more endorsements, no more politics, half the staff flees ... Too bad for Seattle.

Democratic madness

08.24.06 - 5:42 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

The Democratic County Central Committee can sometimes be a zoo, but it's no joke: The endorsement of the panel gives tremendous credibility to local candidates and issues, since it represents the official position of the San Francisco Democratic Party. The Aug. 21st meeting was particularly crazy; Zak Szymanski has a good report in the BAR on the committee's almost non-endorsement of Community College Board member Lawrence Wong, who got blasted for appearing at a hotel that was under union boycott. Read more »

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08.08.06 - 7:27 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Bad social failures eventually come back to haunt you. That's what's happening in the California prison system, where decades of lock-’em-up legislation, stupid drug laws, and governors who are terrified of the political consequences of paroling inmates have filled the jails with aging prisoners who require extensive medical care. Tens of thousands of people will die in state prisons in the next few years, not of murder or abuse but because they're serving life sentences — and it's going to cost a fortune to take care of them in their declining years. Read more »

For serious report-readers

08.04.06 - 12:47 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

John Conyers, ranking minority member on the house judiciary committee, has released a massive report detailing a long list of violations of law by the Bush Administration, from the Downing St. Memo to Iraq war coverups to assaults on civil liberties at home. It clocks in at more than 350 pages, but it's great stuff. You can download it here

Solving the Middle East

08.03.06 - 7:10 am | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

Now here's a brilliant idea: The Pentagon could subcontract the invasion of Iran and Syria to the Candians.

Feds let Singleton off the hook

Justice Department refuses to block media mega-merger
08.02.06 - 4:24 pm | Tim Redmond |
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The United States Department of Justice has refused to intervene in the largest media merger in Bay Area history.

In a brief press release, the DOJ said that the deal under which Denver billionaire Dean Singleton will buy almost every daily newspaper in the Bay Area "is not likely to reduce competition substantially." That, of course, is crazy (see the Bruce Blog). Read more »

Feds let Singleton off the hook

Justice Department refuses to block media mega-merger
08.01.06 - 9:49 pm | Tim Redmond |
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The United States Department of Justice has refused to intervene in the largest media merger in Bay Area history.

In a brief press release, the DOJ said that the deal under which Denver billionaire Dean Singleton will buy almost every daily newspaper in the Bay Area "is not likely to reduce competition substantially." That, of course, is crazy (see the Bruce Blog). Read more »

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08.01.06 - 8:18 pm | Tim Redmond |
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I had lunch with a friend near South Park the other day, and we got to chatting about the condo boom in the area — building after building after ugly high rise after boxy dorm. This stuff doesn't look like luxury housing; it looks like modern urban junk.
Anyway, my friend is a smart, thoughtful person, and her first instinct was to say that more downtown housing is a good thing. Me, I get a headache whenever I try to be thoughtful about San Francisco housing policy these days, so I wasn't thoughtful at all. I hate it all, I told her.
She asked why and I answered honestly. Read more »

A true radical thinker dies at 85

07.31.06 - 6:06 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

t's hard for me to imagine talking about leftist political theory in the early 1980s without the works of Murray Bookchin. His ideas were new, fresh, sometimes to radical for the radicals I hung out with -- but always inspiring. Read more »

Newsom's loser

07.31.06 - 1:15 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

Gavin Newsom is endorsing Rob Black, a former aide to Michela Alioto-Pier, for supervisor in District Six. That's an obvious -- and entirely predictable -- slap at the incumbent, Chris Daly. Read more »