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Judged to Chill
Most judges’ races are anything but exciting. Unless you know the judge personally, they’re all pretty much the same when it comes time to vote. However, what would you say about a judge who imposed punitive attorneys’ fees on plaintiffs working in the public interest to improve election laws? Punitive to the tune of $243,279.50.
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Republicans Provide Crutch To Lessen Pain of Taxes on Poor – Democrats Add Armpads
Usually it’s the other way around – heartless Republicans trying to screw the poor, and Democrats trying to “help” them (but without addressing the actual source of the problem, and often making it worse). But yesterday’s Examiner (March 4) had a kind of “man bites dog” story – Assembly Bill 503, authored by Republican Assemblyman
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Tolled to Death
The folks at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) have something “exciting” in store for the residents of the Bay Area’s nine counties. SB 595, authored by Senator Jim Beall of San Jose, will “give the voters the chance” to approve a $3 toll increase in all Bay Area bridges, except the Golden Gate Bridge. The bureaucrats make
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The Anti-North Dakota
Never content to rest until San Francisco’s government runs every aspect of our lives, supervisors Malia Cohen and Sandra Fewer recently requested the formation of a municipal city bank task force to study and advance the idea of a San Francisco public bank. The idea has been around since the financial crisis of 2008 and is
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True Colors
Recently every board member of the San Francisco Board of Education demonstrated what hypocrisy in action means. The entire Board of Education unanimously rejected an application for a new KIPP elementary charter school set to open in the Bayview next year. Never mind that hundreds of parents, teachers, and students showed up in support of
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Paying for Parks You Aren’t Allowed to Use
A public park in San Francisco’s SOMA district has been sitting closed behind a fence for almost all of 2017, with chain link fence segments installed in February replaced with a $145,000 black iron barrier in June. Because, you know, if those in power didn’t do things like saying they’re going to use taxpayer money
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Time to Act: Help Repeal California’s Top 2 Law
If you ever want to see a Libertarian elected in California, your action is needed to repeal the restrictive Top 2 law that has made it much more difficult to get on the ballot. Click here to print and sign the petition or visit https://stoptop2.com to donate, become a circulator or subcribe to the newsletter.
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More Free Stuff
Supervisor Jane Kim is at it again. Not content to rest on the laurel of her “victory” of making San Francisco City College tuition-free by introducing last year’s successful ballot measure W (dubbed the Mansion Tax), she’s found another way to make San Francisco more “affordable.” She recently asked the city controller to analyze the
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A Thorn in Their Side
The next time you head down to The Embarcadero you may notice that Justin Herman Plaza will now be called Embarcadero Plaza. While San Francisco activists have no Confederate statutes to dismantle, the desire to “clean house” in a historical sense is sweeping the country, and San Francisco officials don’t want to be left in
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Guarding le Régime Moderne
In 1798, Thomas Malthus predicted that population growth would lead to mass starvation. If things had continued as they did for thousands of years previously, he might have been right. Fortunately, the advent of the Industrial Revolution dramatically boosted productivity, and gains in productivity haven’t let up since. In recent times, global productivity has increased