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SF Supes Vote To Postpone City Worker Layoffs

Amid a fiscal crisis, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to appropriate nearly $2 million in an effort to postpone planned layoffs of city public health and clerical workers for two months, until after the...

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Huge Emissions Savings, Other Environmental Benefits Achieved Through Urban Compost Collection...

Officials and local farmers announced today that city residents and businesses have composted more than 620,000 tons of material, mostly food scraps, through the city’s green cart program. By composting all that food since the...

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CITY INSIDER / Candidate Dufty puts Muni violence front and center

A rider is gay-bashed. Another is beaten by a group of teenage girls who kick her in the head with combat boots. A bus driver is attacked by a drunken rider who slashes him with a knife and pours beer on his head; the victim...

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Have Thoughts About a Proposed SF History Museum?

The left side of our site now has a link to a chance to win free tickets by completing a survey. This survey is designed to assess public support for a proposed Uptown Tenderloin History Museum. You can learn more about the...

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Interview with Sarah and Emily Kunstler

During the recent Jewish Film Festival, Beyond Chron talked with Emily and Sarah Kunstler, the filmmakers behind the new documentary “William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe” and daughters of the legendary attorney. Beyond...

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Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent

An interview with the city's mayor and IT principals about DataSF.org and its groundbreaking applications By Fritz Nelson InformationWeek Open and transparent government, when it's more than a political platitude, goes far...

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Afflicting the comfortable

This interview San Francisco CBS 5 did with Gavin Newsom is a classic example of how different local media is with local elected officials than national media is with federal officials. The reporter tears Newsom a new one (in a...

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Gavin Newsom Throws Tantrum In First Interview Since Dropping Gov. Bid

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was irritable during a recent interview about the city's budget deficit, telling a reporter he was "disappointed" in the line of questioning. It was his first sit-down with the press since he...

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Hub of downtown S.F. shifting to Mission Street

Forget the quest for skyscraping icons. Here's the real message in San Francisco's newly released plan for the blocks around the Transbay Terminal: Mission Street, not Market Street, is downtown's main drag from here on out. If...

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Hollywood opens its wallets for Jerry Brown

If the entertainment industry were allowed to pick California's next governor, there would be no contest: Jerry Brown would win by a landslide. That was made clear this past week as the 71-year-old attorney general was feted by...

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