Politics Blog

New redevelopment chief

07.23.07 - 1:50 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Lots of talk about who the new SF Redevelopment Agency chief will be after Marcia Rosen announced (in terse terms) her resignation, which sounds awfully suspect. (Whenever you hear "resigned to pursue new opportunities" think: Canned for political reasons.)

One persistent rumor is that Mayor Newsom wants an African American to head Redevelopment, at a time when the agency is under fire in Bayview- Hunters Point. Read more »

Guess Who has Ed Jew's Number(s)...?

07.23.07 - 11:32 am | Sarah Phelan |

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By Sarah Phelan

...mayoral candidate Grasshopper Alec Kaplan, that's who!

Grasshopper pictured, playing guitar atop his taxi cab, which is wheelchair accessible, just in case you're wondering.

Just when you think things couldn’t get worse for beleaguered “District 4” supervisor Ed Jew, someone goes and unscrews the numbers from his house at 2450 28th Avenue. Read more »

Ed Jew and the never-ending residency saga

07.18.07 - 4:16 pm | Sarah Phelan |

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By Sarah Phelan

Contrary to appearances, Ed Jew is not the supervisor for Chinatown/Burlingame.

Another missive from Ed Jew's attorney, Steven F. Gruel.
This time following his July 16 arraignment in San Francisco Superior court on the District Attorney's charges. Read more »

Seeing Red

07.18.07 - 3:27 pm | Sarah Phelan |

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By Sarah Phelan

Red is for children: a color coded map shows where most kids (the red patches) now live in the City,

For all the crowing about the passage of Newsom's budget (we’ll get to that soon), the progressive majority remains in the driving seat when it comes to setting priorities and making decisions at City Hall.

Consider two key votes that the progressives won at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting.

First, Sups. Read more »

Why public broadband works

07.17.07 - 11:47 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

I just came across this wonderful report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance called "Localizing the Internet: Five ways Public Ownership Solves the Local Broadband Problem." The folks at the Institute, which does great work, argue (as we have) that broadband is essential municipal infrastructure. They also say locally owned broadband is good for the economy. Read more »

Earthquakes and nukes

07.17.07 - 9:07 am | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Back in the early 1980s, San Francisco's Public Media Center did a campaign against PG&E's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant with a slogan that read:

"A nuclear plant on an earthquake fault? PG&E is making the mistake of our lives."

You see, Diablo's built right smack atop the active Hosgri Fault. Read more »

Are Migden's billboards illegal?

07.16.07 - 1:09 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

Lawyers hired by the state Senate campaign of Assembly member Mark Leno have concluded that those big, colorful billboards promoting Carole Migden all over town are in fact an illegal campaign contribution from Clear Channel Corp. Read more »

ACCREDITATION REPORT BLASTS NEW COLLEGE: “Clear and egregious violations of institutional integrity, academic integrity”

07.14.07 - 9:09 pm | G.W. Schulz |

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By G.W. Read more »

Ed Jew's lawyer goes into ironic attack dog mode

07.13.07 - 10:36 am | Sarah Phelan |

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By Sarah Phelan

In what could be the most ironic moment of the Ed Jew saga so far, Jew's attorney Steven Gruel is accusing the City Attorney's response to a recent public records disclosure request of being "woefully incomplete."

This from the attorney of the "D4" Supervisor, who still hasn't been able to prove that he actually lives in the district that he is supposed to be representing at City Hall.

Gruel's ironic accusation followed Jew's July 11 request that the City Attorney's off Read more »