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San Francisco less progressive than it thinks, says outgoing green chief

Victoria Schlesinger, The Public Press — Dec 2 2009 - 3:46pm

After eight years as the director of the city’s Department of the Environment, Jared Blumenfeld is leaving the position in January for a bigger job.

Half reviewed signs are ‘illegal’

Central City Extra — Oct 16 2009 - 1:04pm

Planning Department Ombudsman Dan Sider probably knows more about billboards than anyone in the city.

Art gallery raises money for local underground comix legend

Samantha McGirr and Jessica Wertheim, The Public Press — Aug 26 2009 - 1:28pm

S. Clay Wilson, a longtime fixture on the San Francisco underground comix scene who sustained a traumatic head injury last year, was honored at the close of “The Cresting Wave: The San Francisco Underground Comix Experience” exhibition in San Francisco Sunday evening.

San Francisco officials concerned about possible Census undercount

Patricia Decker, The Public Press — Aug 21 2009 - 2:41pm

As the U.S. Census Bureau gears up for the 2010 count, it has made a significant change in how it engages immigrants -- this is causing some city officials concern that San Francisco may lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, which in turn may lead to distorted electoral representation.

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The Truthiness Report: Fact-checking SF election ads

Michael Stoll, The Public Press — Dec 6 2008 - 12:22pm

In the weeks leading up to Election Day 2008, The Public Press joined with Newsdesk.org in a unique noncommercial news collaboration to fact-check the dizzying array of voter propositions on the San Francisco ballot.

The project, which was co-published on Newsdesk.org and Public-Press.org, with segments broadcast on Crosscurrents Radio on KALW-FM, took to task the spinmeisters who flooded San Francisco neighborhoods with fliers containing truths, half-truths, and “truthiness.”

SF Election 2008 Proposition Fliers Decoded

Nov 3 2008 - 9:07pm

View a sampling of dozens of fliers distributed in San Francisco to sway voters for and against propositions at our Flickr site -- and mouse over the graphics to read our reporters' commentary.

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Prop. D: Consensus on Pier 70?

Nov 3 2008 - 8:26pm

By Bernice Yeung, Newsdesk.org/The Public Press

Although development is a perennially hot-button topic in San Francisco due to concerns about gentrification, Proposition D, which would facilitate Pier 70 revitalization, is a seemingly controversy-free measure that has garnered wide support from neighborhood groups, environmentalists, city officials and developers.

JROTC and Proposition V: Lessons in How Not to Listen

Tim Kingston, newsdesk.org/The Public Press — Oct 31 2008 - 4:40pm

• Sidebar: "Moderate vs. Progressive?"

For a measure that is completely nonbinding there is much sturm und drang around the "Policy Against Terminating Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) in Public High Schools."

Debate is a limited commodity in the case of Proposition V; instead the two sides talk past and through each other -- loudly and heatedly. They also make claims that cannot be verified.

Prop. A: The Specter of a City Without a Lifeline

Oct 31 2008 - 1:55pm

By Matthew Hirsch, Newsdesk.org/The Public Press


	View our annotated Flickr collection to see how pro-Propositon A activists are spinning the issue in campaign fliers.

The proponents of Proposition A want voters to believe that the Nov. 4 election is a matter of life or death for San Francisco's main public hospital.

The measure has an enormous list of supporters, including elected officials, newspapers, community groups, and the local Democratic, Republican and Green parties. The campaign ads also feature long endorsement lists and descriptions of health care specialists who provide essential medical services.

However, these ads misrepresent some of the facts. And they appeal to the lowest common denominator in politics -- quality health care, something everybody supports -- without taking on more difficult questions raised by the campaign.