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Feb 4	Mirkarimi: 'I'm Dying to See My Son': Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi left San Francisco's Superior Court in tears Friday after learning that he will have to wait at least five more days to find out if he can see his 2-year-old son, Theo. A judge on Friday rejected Mirkarimi's request for emergency visitation rights, but set a hearing for nex...
Feb 4	Pot Crackdown Sends Chill through Sacramento: For the second time in less than a year, state lawmakers killed a bill that would have lessened the penalties for growing marijuana. A spokesman for the bill's sponsor, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), blamed the federal crackdown on the state's medical marijuana industry for the defeat...
Feb 4	Dufty's New High-Profile Role Comes with Little Authority: Bevan Dufty laughed when asked whether his new job as San Francisco’s homelessness czar was given to him as a reward for refusing to criticize his rival, Ed Lee, in the 2011 mayoral race. He said it is a thankless position. “If this is payback, I thought I was much more respectful to the mayor th...

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Transbay Blog

2011 Jul	SFMTA announces first parking rate adjustments under SFpark: The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has, for the first time since the SFpark pilot program was launched in several city neighborhoods this April, announced tweaks to parking meter rates. Those tweaks were fashioned in response to the parking occupancy data being collected, with the...
2011 May	SB 375 and fair share: Before Senate Bill 375, the basic premise of California’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) was that each city in a region would be expected to absorb its “fair share” of the region’s projected housing need at all income levels. Each city would then theoretically undertake a planning proc...
2011 May	A short-lived attempt: Is the Oakland Airport Connector “too costly to stop,” as Matier & Ross wrote at the Chronicle? BART director Robert Raburn, who was elected in part on an anti-OAC campaign in the very same district hosting the OAC, at least made an inquiry and tried to do something to stop it — but then imm...

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Jeff Hobson's Election Picks

2010 Oct	Summary of Jeff's November 2010 Recommendations: State Propositions: see writeup for details19: Leaning Yes20: Leaning No21: Yes22: No23: NO NO NO24: Leaning Yes25: Yes26: NO NO NO27: NOState Elected Officials: see writeup for details on someGovernor: Jerry BrownLieutenant Governor: Gavin NewsomSecretary of State: Debra BowenController: John Ch...
2010 Oct	Berkeley City Council: Berkeley City CouncilMy council district is not up this time around, but I've still got opinions. Remember, it's ranked-choice voting, so you can vote for up to 3 people. I plan to only vote for people I would like to have in the position. For several races I'd only cast a first vote, for some I'...

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