Memo to the Editor A Metaphor for America: Triple Crown Forebodings for Obama From John B. Shanley I just got back from the Belmont and what a spectacle it was. Over 100,000 people all seeking the same thing…and none of them finding it. It was a scene. Pauly Walnuts of Sopranos fame was hanging out […]

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Over the past 20 years, the Hospice at Laguna Honda Hospital has cared for over 2,000 dying persons and many more bereaved loved ones. About 50% of our deaths occur in the home-like Hospice, a 25-bed ward with a lovely garden. Patients come from every San Francisco neighborhood with illnesses that range from AIDS to […]

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The Year of The Rat Ed Jew and Leland Yee in more mellow times . Who Ratted Out Whom In Ed Jew Debacle? As Jew Spars With Former Attorneys, Bizarre Details Are Revealed Wife Put $10,000 of Alleged Bribery Cash In The Vegetable Bin of Her Refrigerator $10,000 STILL MISSING Tapioca Parlors At Center of […]

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Mayor Gavin Newsom had the cojones to ask the bureaucrats to see if an All Free Muni could be the answer to the city’s transit problems and Muni’s chronic deficits. The bureaucrats recently came back with the answer: No Can Do. No surprise there – imagination on the traditional part of the city’s bureauracy and […]

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An early San Francisco Alms House — from The Annals of SanFrancisco, 1855 Supervisors Vote Would Doom Venerated Hospital as Home of Last Resort For the City’s Elderly Poor Board Puts Off Final Action, Schedules to Again Reconsider Vote Next Week Elsband, Heeding West of Twin Peaks Outrage, Succeeds in Delaying Tactic; Daly Plays The […]

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McCain’s Underbelly – His Anger By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Until last week John McCain’s political handlers had been complacently sketching out their basic strategy: to portray Obama as a mere novice in statecraft, devoid of those powers of mature wisdom and sober judgment with which the seasoned McCain is so richly endowed.

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Arthur Bruzzone interviewing Warren Hinckle on San Francisco View more clips of this interview online

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Rudys Pal Kerick Gave New York Harbor Defense Secrets to Arabs Fox Boss Roger Ailes Covered Up, Urged Publisher to Fib to FBI to Protect His Candidate Gulianis Reputation Bombshell Revelations As Judith Regan’s Lawsuit Against Rupert Murdoch Is Settled Former N.Y. Mayor Had Asked Bush to Nominate His – Disgraced Partner Kerick to Helm […]

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