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By John Shanley New District Attorney George Gascón stated that he did not attend the swearing in of New Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi because he was currently under investigation by the DA’s office and he feared the prospect of a conflict of interest. A legal conflict is not like the concept of being in bounds or out of bounds on [...]

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This is a memorandum from a former long-time attorney for public defender Jeff Adachi, who is critical of her boss, but contains insightful information that the Argonaut thinks is important for readers considering voting for Adachi in his opportunistic run for mayor.

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By Warren Hinckle & Arlo Hale Smith, Jr. An outrage of international impact apparently not reported except in Chinese language newspapers, has befallen San Francisco’s once proud progressive Democratic Party.   We have to say it out loud, it is the fault of Aaron Peskin’s often outrageous manipulations and management of the local Democratic Party [...]

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The Only Candidates With The Experience To Do The Job There are two candidates in this election that the Argonaut enthusiastically endorses — Bill Fazio for District Attorney and Chris Cunnie for Sheriff.

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The Argonaut recommends–as we are forced to comply with the city’s confusing and hideously expensive Ranked Choice Voting system–the following candidates and yea or nay on ballot propositions (We will explain our reasoning below): Mayor:     Ed Lee, 2nd Choice: Michela Alioto-Pier, 3rd Choice: Bevan Dufty DA:             Bill Fazio, 2nd Choice: George Gascon [...]

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By Peter Weverks   You probably missed it, and Apple Computer probably hopes you missed it, especially if you read the news while listening to an iPod, but buried in last February’s business news was a blip about a visit by Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, to the Foxconn Technology Group factory in Shenzhen, [...]

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By Warren Hinckle San Francisco Democratic Party boss Aaron Peskin is the master of the strategic stall. Last week he managed to put off,  for the second month in a row, votes on two significant reform measures before the county central committee — including an effort by Senator Dianne Feinstein to send him to the [...]

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(It is not often that the Argonaut reprints another publication’s product, but the Rolling Stone’s exclusive on horror in Afghanistan deserves the widest possible readership, and thus we offer it here. – Editor) How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: [...]

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