Tom Graff
1944-2009
By Mike Marshall
Tom Graff, the former Regional Director of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) passed away on November 12th, after a long battle with cancer. The environmental movement, and the campaign to restore the Hetch Hetchy Valley, which Tom energetically supported, lost a great friend, a great advocate and a great strategist.
“He was a [...]

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From Peter Buxtun,
Our Transportation Correspondent
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
Continuous calamities plague our Bay Bridge. First it was shut down to install a huge S Curve. That chaotic closure was extended when cracks were suddenly found in a huge beam that [...]

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November 3, 2009 San Francisco Municipal Election
City Attorney

Re-Elect Dennis Herrera
Treasurer
Jose Cisneros
Proposition A
Budgeting Process Revisions
NO
This is yet another City Hall barn-door sham that does nothing to rein the horse of galloping civic budget deficits. There is also the usual screwing around with the small print – the Firefighters and the craft unions will never forgive Supervisor [...]

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