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City Sells Hunters Point to Lennar as Activists Revive Referendum Opponents of the Bayview Redevelopment Plan – who last year gathered 33,000 signatures to challenge it at the ballot box – yesterday filed for a court injunction to get the City to validate the signatures. Last September, City Attorney Dennis Herrera issued an opinion that the signatures were invalid because the petitions did not include all 500 pages of the Plan. If upheld, Herrera’s opinion would effectively eviscerate the right to challenge any law by referendum – as no petition-gatherer c...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:25am PDT
Laguna Honda needs help - our Elderly need protection and good care Laguna Honda has been infested with patients who are drug addicts who prey upon the Elderly and those patients that cannot defend themselves. Mayor Gavin Newsom and Dr. Mitch Katz think nothing about this ploy and this NONSENSE must stop at once. John Kanaley wants to do something and he should take immediate action NOT to use use Laguna Honda as a Drug Rehabilitation Center. Laguna Honda should be used to house our Elderly and those that cannot take care of themselves. For sure the drug addi...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 6:58am PDT
Muni Transit Riders Petition for Redress of Grievances Have you signed the Muni transit riders petition? You have to read it to comprehend the magnitude of the problem at 4th and King where CalTrain riders transfer from/to the T train or J Church, complicated by the baseball stadium swindle crowds to their "private" stadium subsidized with public transit, police, fire, ambulance, sewer, water, etc....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 8:45pm PDT
Susan Leal continues to defy constituents from San Francisco Susan Leal continues to openly defy constituents of San Francisco by wasting millions of dollars. There are instances of blatant discrimination, waste of millions of dollars, projects that are months behind the time lines, and hiring of consultants and inner circle friends NOT based on experience -costing tax payers millions of dollars....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 5:28pm PDT
Too many vacancies in SF's nonprofit SRO hotels? Why are there empty rooms in nonprofit SRO hotels,
when thousands remain homeless in San Francisco?...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 5:12pm PDT
Bring back the MUNI 15-Third Bus line The $700 million T-Third Street Light Rail is an abject failure....
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 6:41pm PDT
Failed T Line is 1st Stage; Central Subway Part Way to Chinatown is Next Horror If you have not had enough of the disaster in capitalist "planning" with the failed T Train line, you should know the horror show has just begun, courtesy millions of our hard-earned tax dollars. The next stage is the Central Subway EXTENDING the T line from 4th & King to Clay and Stockton, with no connection to the Market Street subway!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 12:22pm PDT
Dumbarton Dialogue Project--Multi Jurisdictional Meeting The Dumbarton Dialogue will continue with the community dialogue to define the top 10 criteria for projects on Saturday, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the City of East Palo Alto Municipal Building, 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto. The meetings will bring to together interested individuals from the six participating cities – East Palo Alto, Atherton, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Redwood City. The public is encouraged to attend and participate. For more information c...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 3:34pm PDT
Democrat "Mayor" Newsom Cannot Run Train System The reintroduction of one train route is apparently causing havoc with the Muni Metro system and all above ground trains and buses. This is how the Democratic Party machine of San Francisco, led by election fraud "mayor" Gavin Newsom, runs for re(s)election this year. We had better have a Green Party candidate for mayor....
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 3:48am PDT
Landlord Threatens Restraining Order Against Senior Tenant – For Paying Rent As Jose Morales fights to save his home from the Ellis Act, his landlord has now threatened a restraining order against him if he continues to pay his rent. On April 6th, eviction lawyer James Kraus notified Morales’ attorney, Raquel Fox of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (T.H.C.), that they were no longer accepting his rent – and accused T.H.C. of attempting to trick the landlord into cashing Morales’ check. Kraus went on to explain that the Ellis Act notice had “recently expired,” although it...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 6:42am PDT
Mayor Alan Autry Undermines the Homeless 
A majority of Fresno City Council members want to install portable toilets and a trash bin near a downtown homeless encampment. Mayor Alan Autry is opposed and City Manager Andrew Souza says they will not act on the council’s request....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 4:17pm PDT
African American Exodus from San Francisco Worrying about losing our African American citizens is too little too late....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 2:11pm PDT
Rent Board Commisioners Turn Blind Eye to Landlord Fraud This is the story of a uniquely San Francisco protection racket - scofflaws protecting scofflaws. Let’s say you are a San Francisco tenant whose landlord has filed a petition at the Rent Board to get extra rent from her tenants by claiming capital improvements. Under the San Francisco rent control ordinance, landlords are permitted to pass through to tenants half the costs of genuine capital improvements....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:16am PDT
Housing Activists Take Over Ellised Building More than 150 housing rights activists marched through the Mission District on April 7 to demand better protections for renters in San Francisco and reforms to the Ellis Act. The march ended at a vacant building that other activists had occupied in a non-violent protest....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:19pm PDT
4/10 SF Kaiser Rally HELLthcare at Kaiser Permante Kaiser is denying care to people who should be gettig healthcare so they can die without costing
Kaiser any more money...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 5:38pm PDT
Baker and Pizzeria on the Ropes After Dispute With PG&E After nearly three decades as a baker, Cindy Gershon is not burned out. Her business may be, however, following the smoky failure of the electrical cables that carry the power into her Walnut Creek bakery and an ongoing dispute with PG&E over exactly whose responsibility this is....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:47am PDT
Gavin Newsom's Planning = Willie Brown All Over Again If anyone was under the misapprehension that Gavin Newsom's approach to planning was any different from the corruption of the Willie Brown era, the Mayor's unprecedented appearance before the Planning Commission on April 5th in support of the Market Octavia Better Neighborhoods Plan proves that when push comes to shove, both serve developers on demand....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:46am PDT
Antics and Energy at Homes not Jails Protest (video/quicktime 22.8MB) Saturday's Homes Not Jails action was kept lively and theatrical by a festive crowd....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 2:22am PDT
Homes Not Jails Building Takeover 
HOUSING ACTIVISTS RALLIED TO SUPPORT HOMES NOT JAILS TAKEOVER OF EMPTY BUILDING...
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 4:51pm PDT
Squatters Evicted from Vacant Home on 23rd and Treat (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) People gathered today in San Francisco's Mission district to support the tennants of a squatted building on 23rd and Treat Street and to protest the Ellis Act. The controversial act, critics charge, allows speculative realtors to evict tenants in order to raise rents....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 6:48pm PDT
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