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Stop meddling

06.11.13 - 6:45 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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The mega flap over the National Security Administration's electronic surveillance rages on this week. Read more »

Poor Scott Walker--the sun ain't gonna shine anymore

06.10.13 - 7:02 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Anyone that believes that merit and achievement in governing mean anything at all should stay away from Wisconsin.

The Badger state, cheesehead central, home to the Packers, Brewers, Bucks and Violent Femmes. Also home to perhaps the most dismal head of state in the US, Scott Walker.

(To any music fan, the image conjured up by "Scott Walker" is that of the legendarily reclusive, Jaques Brel-like vocalist. But I digress).Read more »

A tale of two signings: Kluwe and Tebow

06.10.13 - 3:31 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Two very disparate signings in pro football in the last month. First, punter and outspoken gay rights advocate Chris Kluwe has signed with the Raiders (after being let go by the Vikings). The former UCLA star has been a pro ball player eight years, the Raiders are his third team. Read more »

NSA whistleblower supporters to speak on civil liberties

06.10.13 - 2:43 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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Famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and plans to march in the upcoming San Francisco Pride Parade to honor Bradley Manning. Read more »

The myth of a pro-tenant city

06.10.13 - 2:41 pm | Tim Redmond |
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There are always bad tenants. Always will be. Human interactions are imperfect, and renting out a room in your flat or a flat under your apartment to a stranger is always a bit of a gamble. I've lived with housemates, and it's always been great, but not everyone has that experience -- one old friend of mine lived with a guy who threatened to kill him by writing demonic messages in blood on the bathroom wall and then smashed his car to bits with a street sign.Read more »

San Onofre, RIP (no more nukes)

06.10.13 - 1:45 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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"No news is good news" went right out the window last Friday. San Onofre's nuclear power plant has announced it will close permanently.

After failed and costly equipment swaps and steam generator failures, So Cal Edison threw in the towel. A half billion in unpaid bills is its legacy.Read more »

A map of SF's wealth -- and poverty

06.10.13 - 1:28 pm | Tim Redmond |
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There's a cool interactive map that gives you a visual picture of wealth and poverty in San Francisco. Check it out here. Just type in "San Francisco, CA" and click "income."Read more »

Democratic Party chair signs on with Realtors

06.10.13 - 11:14 am | Tim Redmond |
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Gee, which is worse: Having the chair of the local Democratic Party working for Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which blows up neighborhoods, or for the San Francisco Board of Realtors, which pushes anti-tenant legislation and whose members profit from gentrification and evictions?Read more »

The "L" word

06.10.13 - 10:42 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Friend of mine sent me a great piece from the (I hope this isn't verboten) SFGate about the gentrification of South Boston, the section of Boston once ruled by the iron fist of Jim "Whitey" Bulger. Landmarks that were once the alleged mobster's HQ's now turned wineries, the death of the local Irish pub, all Read more »

City College overseers bar most speakers from meeting

06.09.13 - 4:23 pm | Joe Fitzgerald |
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The Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges has the power to close City College of San Francisco, and students and faculty in line at the San Francisco Airport Marriott June 7 were there to hear about the fate of their school.

But at the only public meeting available to meet with City College’s accreditors in more than seven months, some 30 people were barred from entry.

The doors were were shut, police said, because there were only about 20 seats available.Read more »