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RESTORATION AUTHORITY: THE BEST ALTERNATIVE?
The San Francisco Bay Clean Water, Pollution Prevention and Habitat Restoration Measure, a proposal by the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority (SFBRA), will be on the June 2016 ballot of nine Bay Area counties. In an earlier article, San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority – Nickel and Diming you to the Poor House, we discussed the proposal’s background
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PROPERTY RIGHTS? WHOSE PROPERTY RIGHTS?
Legislation being approved by the current San Francisco Board of Supervisors should prompt property owners to ask themselves, “Who owns this building anyway?!” Owners of residential rental property would need to add a couple more question marks and exclamation points to that question. District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim’s latest salvo, Eviction Protections 2.0 (Ordinance 171-5)
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SFPD Body Cameras – Devil’s In The Details
Written by Starchild Public awareness of routine police violence, a serious problem in many parts of the world, has perhaps never been higher. The problem is not new of course, but thanks to the widespread use of video recording devices it has become much more visible. In the United States, the deaths at police hands
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEDY LAMARR
November 9 celebrates the birthday of Hedy Lamarr. By all accounts, the most beautiful woman in the world, as well as one of the smartest. History has it her day job was actress, and her after-hours contribution to science was technology not only capable of scrambling enemy frequencies but also morphing as the precursor of
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THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING BONUS PROGRAM
Mayor Ed Lee announced the proposed Affordable Housing Bonus Program (AHBP) in September, and he and Supervisor Katy Tang have been doing yeoman’s work communicating to San Francisco residents the reason for and benefits of this program. Also, the San Francisco Planning Department has done its job in posting all details of the program and
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LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF SAN FRANCISCO THANKS OUR SUPPORTERS!
Thanks to loyal supporters of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco, the LPSF had enough funds in its modest treasury to file four paid ballot arguments which will appear on the November 2015 voters’ pamphlet. If it were not for our commitment to serve as sometimes a lonely voice standing in opposition to government overreach,
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MAYOR ED LEE ANNOUNCES HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESSES — OR DOES HE?
Libertarians are of the opinion that government creates problems for which it then creates solutions, and the solutions always result in more government control and less individual initiative. Examples abound, but let’s just look at two of Mayor Ed Lee’s recent proposals. 1. Short terms rentals Property owners got tired of the yards-long list of
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THANK YOU, PRIDE TEAM!
Thank you to the volunteer team that staffed the annual Libertarian booth at Pride, June 27 and 28, 2015. We are grateful to Outright Libertarians, other Bay Area Libertarian Party chapters, and Golden Gate Liberty Revolution for continuing their collaboration with the LPSF on San Francisco Pride. Members of the team gave it their all,
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LIBERTARIANS CELEBRATE PRIDE 2015
San Francisco will celebrate Pride the weekend of June 27 and 28. Libertarians will join the celebration to help commemorate a day on June 28, 1969, when members of the LGBT community said “Enough is enough.” Here is a description of that day from the San Francisco Pride website: “In the early hours of
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THE MAGNA CARTA – LIBERTY’S FOUNDATION
June 15, 2015, marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede, southern England. From this “Great Charter” emerged the concept of a written social contract spelling out freedoms. Prior to the Magna Carta, kings governed under the principle of force and will, justified by the view that kings were above the