By John Holland In 1910, voters in San Francisco approved a $45 million bond issue for the construction of a water system on the Tuolumne River. In 2010, city residents could vote on a proposal to tear out a key part of the system – Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. Restore Hetch Hetchy, […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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By John Shanley Editors Note – John Shanley is a native San Franciscan.  He is a former spokesperson for District Attorney Terence Hallinan and recently served as a deputy city attorney assigned to the San Francisco Police Department. My phone started ringing on Friday afternoon as word began to spread that newly appointed San Francisco […]

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HOUSTON  A missile may have just barely miss hitting a Continental Airlines flight on Friday. Liberty County sheriff deputies are meeting with the FBI and FAA to discuss this incident.Sheriff deputies say on Friday a missile may have been launched near Interstate 10 and mount Belview. A continental flight which had just taken off from […]

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I watched the other games from the stands so this was the first one I saw on TV, and as a committed secularist I noticed to my horror that Mike Singletary was wearing a cross draped on his muscular bosom.  As much as God made little daisy petals, that goddamn cross hexed the 49ers. Isn’t […]

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(The Eastern Establishment editorial comment on President’s Obama’s surprise Nobel was unsurprising. The Wall Street Journal cattily noted that the wily Norwegians had really praised the end to “American exceptionalism” that they incorrectly pretend Obama represents and correctly believe Europe wishes. The New York Times was dutifully little engine that could liberal check-listing a lotta […]

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A fight between two female passengers on Muni, captured by an amateur photographer on his cell phone video camera, has lit up YouTube — and is now under investigation by the transit agency. The shouting, punching and hair-pulling episode took place aboard a 20-Columbus bus in Chinatown and was posted sometime Wednesday. It’s unclear what […]

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Last week the give-away tabloid Examiner printed a letter to the editor of interest for its lucidity. The title the sub-editor put on the letter was “Plastic Bags Litter Streets”. Before further comment, here is the letter: “”The Examiner’s daily front page announcement, “This paper is printed on soy ink on recycled paper” is hard […]

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