Category: Government 2.0
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It looks like longtime Democratic County Central Committee member Leslie Katz, a one-time supervisor, vs. Bill Barnes, aide to Supervisor Chris Daly and former Willie Brown special assistant on AIDS policy, for the chair of the local Democratic Party. Both are claiming 20 votes for the office, with only 33 total. Katz temporarily filled Carole…
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Five supervisors have signed onto a Youth Commission-backed effort to repeal Section 484(r) of the Higher Education Act. That 1998 addition to the law restricts federal financial aid to students with drug convictions. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Senate Judiciary Committee is taking up a reauthorization bill for the Office of National Drug Control Policy that includes…
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The Elections Department confirms that Terry Baum will qualify for the November ballot.
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It looks like Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will get a bit of a challenge after all. Terry Baum, a member of the Green Party, now expects to join young Republican Jennifer DePalma, as a contender against Pelosi in November. Baum’s role in the race comes via a write-in campaign, the success of which she plans to…
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As Matt Gonzalez’s chain store legislation – including a ban in Hayes Valley – goes forward, the Chamber of Commerce has released a David Binder poll on voter attitude towards chains: City Voters More Concerned About Jobs than Number of Chain Stores in SF Results of a San Francisco voter survey, conducted March 6-9, 2004,…
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Rachel Gordon, the Chronicle’s top City Hall reporter assigned to the Mayor Newsom beat, is barred from covering the same-sex marriage issue after marrying her partner, Liz Mangelsdorf, a Chronicle photographer. Read Chron Executive Editor Phil Bronstein’s staff memo here at Stanford’s “Grade the News”.
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In Friday’s column: BOS Committee assignments, Bill Jones and the Triple-I luncheon.
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COURT: STOP AND SHOW CAUSE California Supreme Court Takes Action in Same-Sex Marriage Cases (court press release) San Francisco-At a conference today, the California Supreme Court took action in two pending cases that challenge the continuing issuance of same-sex marriage licenses in the City and County of San Francisco. (Lockyer v. City & County of…
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