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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 26.12.08 05:33 UTC

Barry Paris' top 10 list

Richard Nixon, Harvey Milk, George W. Bush and Che Guevara -- a bridge foursome made in hell (three guesses who's the dummy) but a quartet of high-octane political biopics made in Hollywood this ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 06.12.08 05:32 UTC

Peskin would cut arts funding by 50%

Three of San Francisco's most highly regarded arts institutions - the Symphony, the Opera and the Ballet - would see their city funding slashed in half under a dramatic cost-cutting proposal intended ...

SAN FRANCISCO Brent Assink Lang Lang Nathan Ballard Gavin Newsom Aaron Peskin +5 more

Seattle Times, 29.11.08 11:31 UTC

Turning "I dos" into "you can'ts"

LOS ANGELES Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it. There is 1978 footage of a stricken Feinstein in the opening minutes of the new Gus ...

SAN FRANCISCO Milk California junk food Vietnam Harvey Milk +8 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 07.10.08 03:01 UTC

Race for supervisor also a race for dollars

(10-06) 19:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- They've hosted a speed-dating event, belted out Madonna songs with supporters at a karaoke bar and reaped the benefits of art auctions. They've hobnobbed with ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 16.09.08 22:01 UTC

San Francisco political adviser dies

(09-16) 14:14 PDT San Francisco - -- Robert J. McCarthy, a lawyer, lobbyist and political fundraiser who counted scores of San Francisco city leaders as his friends and clients, died of cancer Sunday ...

SAN FRANCISCO JERUSALEM New York City cancer California law school +37 more

The Register, 10.09.08 19:00 UTC

Rogue SF sysadmin may cost city over $1m

Send in the consultants!

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San Francisco Chronicle, 25.08.08 15:02 UTC

S.F. supervisor races to test public financing

The November election showdown between San Francisco's moderate and far-left political factions for control of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will also be a test of public financing of local ...

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San Francisco Chronicle, 04.08.08 02:01 UTC

S.F. officials on a legislative binge to make the city healthier

(08-03) 18:02 PDT -- Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to make the city the first in the country to ban the sale of cigarettes in pharmacies such as Walgreens and Rite Aid. And ...

SAN FRANCISCO Polk Gulch Obesity California Walgreens Rite Aid +25 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 16.07.08 04:15 UTC

San Francisco plan would snuff out smoking even further

(07-15) 20:23 PDT -- Smokers would find it harder to buy their cigarettes and light up in public under two proposals under consideration by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Mayor Gavin Newsom ...

SAN FRANCISCO Berkeley Emeryville Oakland Contra Costa County California +26 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 12.07.08 16:01 UTC

S.F. fundraiser Julie Lee guilty of fraud

(07-11) 19:54 PDT SACRAMENTO -- San Francisco community organizer Julie Lee, whose questionable fundraising helped push former California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley out of politics, was found ...