Category: Government 2.0
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Reader Scott Ruble provides a great item for The Body Politic, reprinted here in full, from a Wednesday e-mail. Scott even provided supporting links. He’s a columnist’s best friend: As you know, NBC’s “The West Wing” often bases plots of their episodes on real political happenings of recent months. In case you were not watching…
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When Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval said “I have a plan” in explaining his moves to cut the tourism and economic development budgets, he wasn’t just flapping his lips. He’s now moved to cut $826,913 that the city budgets for the symphony, ballet and opera, and to redirect tourism money to the Tom Waddell urgent care clinic…
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So President Bush does have something in common with San Francisco, where the full kiss is commonplace between political friends of opposite sex. …
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John Burton’s Foundation for Children Without Homes hosts a gala fundraiser Dec. 16, 6 p.m., at the Marriott Hotel on Fourth St., $1,000 a head on the occasion of Burton’s 72nd B-Day. …
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Proponents of banning elephants at the S.F. Zoo want to see an interactive center instead, with Web cams and climate control, dedicated to teaching kids about the behemoths without exposing them to the rigors of confinement. Supervisor Matt Gonzalez, should a vote on the issue today fail, would like to see a signature drive to…
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Whoa! Matier and Ross appear to know where to look for hard-hitting San Francisco political news. … It wasn’t more than a few hours after the first-hand account of payoffs to homeless people for testimony hit the Web and The Ex on Friday that M&R were calling the usual suspects. Their take came Monday, but…
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Sac Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub reports that James Richardson, author of a biography of Willie Brown, will take over duty as the Senate Chaplain on Monday. …
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Board President-in-waiting Aaron Peskin not only swims in the Bay, he’s got a regular yoga class, his City Hall calendar shows. …
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Several weeks back, Mayor Gavin Newsom’s own PR team was blaming a protest crowd on Charlie Walker, saying he’d paid men to picket Newsom outside of a speech by Barack Obama at the West Bay Cultural Center.
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Billions of dollars are flowing in the Bayview-Hunters Point economy over the next several years, and everybody is getting paid. For the crowd packed into Thursday night’s Planning Commission meeting on the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, that was certainly true: the lobbyists, the preachers, the small-time politicians, the legislative and administrative staffers from S.F. and…
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