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City Attorney smacks down Jew's PUC investigation request, launches investigation into Jew

05.23.07 - 2:27 pm | Sarah Phelan |
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Sarah Phelan

In addition to telling Supervisor Ed Jew that disclosure of his public records, including his PUC water usage records is permitted "because you stated in your letter and in comments to the public that your father's home is also your residence", City Attorney Dennis Herrera has asked the beleagured supe to provide the following information before next Tuesday, May 29 (which could be tricky since Jew is currently in China),: a copy of Jew's 2006 state and federal tax returns; a copy of his driver's licence; a copy of his vehicle registration cards; a copy of his utility bills--gas Read more »

Ed Jew throws a one-two punch at the PUC--then flies to China

05.23.07 - 9:33 am | Sarah Phelan |
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Guardian photo of Ed Jew by Charles Russo
By Sarah Phelan
Before leaving the country at 1am this morning for the home of his ancestors, beleagured Supervisor Ed Jew managed to find time--in between luggage packing and driving to the airport--to dash off a letter to City Attorney Dennis Herrera, requesting an inquiry into "the apparent willful disclosure of confidential personal information by an employee or employees of the Public Utilities Commission."

Wow. Read more »

Rescuing the sinking Shipyard

05.22.07 - 2:11 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Artist's rendering of Jim Mason's Mechabolic project
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Hogarth doth protest too much

05.22.07 - 9:58 am | Steven T. Jones |
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By Steven T. Jones
Even before reading the article about Club Six's conflict with neighbors that I wrote for tomorrow's paper, Paul Hogarth (a half-time housing activist with Tenderloin Housing Clinic and half-time managing editor for THC's Beyond Chron blog) has concluded that I'm being terribly unfair to the SRO residents of Sixth Street, all because Club Six advertises with us. Apparently he's psychic. Read more »

Prisons and schools

05.21.07 - 6:55 pm | Tim Redmond |
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No bookcase.

By Tim Redmond

Here's one of the saddest statistics I've seen in a long time: California will soon spend more money on prisons than on its university system.

Everyone in Sacramento seems to agree this is wrong. Read more »

Was there $20,000 in Ed Jew's safe?

05.21.07 - 8:31 am | Steven T. Jones |
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Guardian photo of Ed Jew by Charles Russo
By Steven T. Jones
The Examiner today repeats their big scoop in the FBI raid of Sup. Ed Jew's office: that agents found $20,000 in his safe that had come from a constituent seeking help with regulatory issues. Read more »

Ed Jew and the FBI

05.19.07 - 7:13 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

I'm not going to jump to any conclusions here; I'm an innocent-until-proven-guilty kind of guy. But I will say that there's some very funky looking stuff in the daily papers right now about Sup. Jew. The Chron had the basics in its first-day story, but raised more questions than it answered, especially around the fact that Jew doesn't seem to be living in the house that he owns in the Sunset. Read more »

The East Bay Express: Independent again

05.18.07 - 11:10 am | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

The good news -- and it's very good news -- is that the East Bay Express is no longer a member of the Village Voice Media chain that owns the SF Weekly. I'm a day late with this news; it's taken me a bit to process, because our ad director (and my good friend) Jody Colley has left the Guardian to go work with the new ownership. Read more »

Bikes rule!

05.18.07 - 10:21 am | Steven T. Jones |
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Me and Newsom at last year's Bike to Work Day
By Steven T. Jones
San Franciscans pedaled past an important milestone during yesterday's Bike to Work Day: on the morning commute along Market Street, bicycles outnumbered cars for the first time. Traffic engineers counted 647 cyclists riding eastbound on Market near Van Ness from 8-9 a.m., or 54 percent of the total traffic. Read more »

Chronicle to slash newsroom staff

05.18.07 - 10:18 am | Steven T. Jones |
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By Steven T. Jones
The San Francisco Chronicle is planning to lay off about a quarter of its editorial staff -- 20 managers and 80 rank-and-file journalists -- in the next two weeks, according to sources at the paper. Read more »