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Supervisor Burning Man

08.30.06 - 11:42 am | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

I've been around a long time in city politics, and seen a lot of strange things, but even by my standards, it's pretty darn wierd to see the Bay Area Reporter, a queer community paper, taking issue with the fact that a candidate for supervisor dresses in (mildly) outrageous clothes at Burning Man -- and (gasp!) admits she might have even taken drugs at that annual desert party. Read more »

EDITOR'S NOTES

08.29.06 - 8:59 pm | Tim Redmond |
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I was out of town when Sue Bierman died Aug. 6, her car crashing into a Dumpster near her Haight Ashbury home, in the neighborhood she loved. I was out of cell phone range and had no real Internet access, and the papers in Upstate New York didn't carry the story. So I didn't learn until I got home that San Francisco had lost one of its most vibrant, funny, warm, and passionate political voices.
Bierman, a native of Fremont, Neb., arrived in San Francisco in 1950. Read more »

Behind the redevelopment initiative

08.29.06 - 2:05 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

I just said something nice about Randy Shaw, so it's time to slap him a fast one. The big story in today's BeyondChron is a gushing testimonial to the efforts of one Biran Murphy O'Flynn to block the city's redevelopment plan for Bayview Hunters Point. Read more »

1000 years of fuck

08.28.06 - 6:29 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond
You learn something new every day. I just learned from the Philadelphia Inquirer that fuck has been in the English language for more than 1,000 years.

They worry abuot that sort of thing in Philly

1000 years of fuck

08.28.06 - 6:25 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

You learn something new every day. I just learned from The Philadelphia Inquirer that fuck has been part of the English language for more than 1,000 years.

I guess they worry about those sorts of things in Philly.

Who's going to control Congress?

08.28.06 - 6:15 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

Chris Bowers offers a pretty detailed analysis on the state of the battle for control of the House at MyDD.com. Hard to read without my glasses on, but worth checking out as the campaign continues.

When the assholes take over

08.28.06 - 11:05 am | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

What happens when the people who run the SF Weekly take over a paper in Seattle? It's not pretty. No more endorsements, no more politics, half the staff flees ... Too bad for Seattle.

Democratic madness

08.24.06 - 5:42 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

The Democratic County Central Committee can sometimes be a zoo, but it's no joke: The endorsement of the panel gives tremendous credibility to local candidates and issues, since it represents the official position of the San Francisco Democratic Party. The Aug. 21st meeting was particularly crazy; Zak Szymanski has a good report in the BAR on the committee's almost non-endorsement of Community College Board member Lawrence Wong, who got blasted for appearing at a hotel that was under union boycott. Read more »

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08.08.06 - 7:27 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Bad social failures eventually come back to haunt you. That's what's happening in the California prison system, where decades of lock-’em-up legislation, stupid drug laws, and governors who are terrified of the political consequences of paroling inmates have filled the jails with aging prisoners who require extensive medical care. Tens of thousands of people will die in state prisons in the next few years, not of murder or abuse but because they're serving life sentences — and it's going to cost a fortune to take care of them in their declining years. Read more »

For serious report-readers

08.04.06 - 12:47 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

John Conyers, ranking minority member on the house judiciary committee, has released a massive report detailing a long list of violations of law by the Bush Administration, from the Downing St. Memo to Iraq war coverups to assaults on civil liberties at home. It clocks in at more than 350 pages, but it's great stuff. You can download it here