ENDORSEMENTS FOR THE FEBRUARY 2022 ELECTIONS Campos for Assembly. No on the School Board recalls. Our recommendations for the Feb. 15 special election. (Read and share these endorsements at the SFBG.com site here.) San Francisco voters will face four elections in 2022, the result of a confluence of strange political… Continue reading
20 JANUARY 2022/SF POLITICS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) The Recall Chesa Boudin campaign’s $16,000-a-month spokesperson is the only person who appears in their latest glossy mailer, and the local Democratic party has filed a complaint that this is a campaign violation. SFist found it a little odd last November when the Recall… Continue reading
Power to Public Banking in 2022!It’s a New Year for Public Banking! The California Public Banking Alliance is proud to announce the publication of new resources aimed at educating the broad public about the benefits of public banking. The CPBA 2022 Resource Booklet is a 27-page detailed overview of public banking in… Continue reading
Pro-recall committees have raised 46 times more money than the anti-recall campaign, according to Ethics Commission data (First published June 19, 2021, 6 a.m.) In only a few short weeks, San Francisco voters will go to the polls to decide whether three elected members of the city’s school board will… Continue reading
A sign with the CVS Health Corp. logo is seen within a CVS pharmacy store in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2017. Photo: Christopher Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images The pharmacy and health insurance giant gave $5 million to Partnership for America’s Health Care Future. Lee FangApril 21 2021, 9:49 a.m. (TheIntercept.com) IN… Continue reading
Please hold Melvin Starks in your thoughts as he continues to heal. NOT back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay… Continue reading
Posted on January 17, 2022 by SF Forest Alliance (SFForest.org) This article is republished with permission and minor edits from Conservation Sense and Nonsense, an environmental blog about current ecological topics including “native plant restorations.” We are publishing it here because we think the opposition to “invasives” by nativist activists – and the… Continue reading
Sometime in the next 36 months, there will be a major political transition in San Francisco By Lincoln Mitchell • January 14, 2022 1:00 pm – (SFExaminer.com) For San Franciscans, one of the most important subplots of the 2022 midterm elections is whether or not Nancy Pelosi — who has represented The… Continue reading
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the impact of Senate filibuster rules during a news conference in 1963. (C-SPAN) By Gillian Brockell January 4, 2022 at 8:04 a.m. EST (WashingtonPost.com) On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that if Republicans continue to block a voting rights bill, the… Continue reading
First, the exciting news….This past week CA AB 1400 had a hearing and vote in the Assembly Health Committee. Over 250 people attended online and the vote passed (11-3). Next stop, the Assembly Appropriations committee for a hearing and vote Thursday, January 20th, then to the full Assembly for a… Continue reading
