AUGUST 23, 2023 (DemocracyNow.org) TOPICS GUESTS LINKS We look at the 70th anniversary of the August 19, 1953, U.S.- and U.K-backed coup in Iran, which took place two years after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry that had been controlled by the company now known… Continue reading
23 AUGUST 2023/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) More intentional drama is being generated over the implausible 50-story condo tower a developer is proposing to build in the Sunset District. After City Hall rejected it for the umpteenth time last month, the developer is now suing the city. It has… Continue reading
Opposing sides of San Francisco converged at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday morning for a hearing about one of the major flashpoints embroiling The City: how to best serve its unhoused population. Oral arguments in the ongoing legal battle between The City and the Coalition on Homelessness were… Continue reading
The Hannah Arendt Center Published in Quote of the Week 3 days ago (Medium.com) Pinchas Huberman “[H]is thinking was not a search for truth, since every truth that is the result of a thought process necessarily puts an end to the movement of thinking. The fermenta cognitions which Lessing scattered into… Continue reading
by Laurance Lem Lee on August 21, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) SFUSD Superintendent Wayne Another first day of San Francisco public schools and so much hope. This year the hope is both the yearly hope of all the newness of a fresh start and the hope in the follow through of plans from well intentioned… Continue reading
by Steve Early on August 21, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) Assessing the Labor Movement In a recent conversation with an otherwise well-informed young labor activist, I made a passing reference to Change to Win, a national labor federation formed in 2005 by defectors from the AFL-CIO. “Change to what?” she asked. “Never heard of it.”… Continue reading
by Sebastian on August 21, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) The invitation to the opening of the Van Ness Avenue BRT project. March 12, 2022 It was not an April Fool’s joke. It was a miracle when Van Ness Avenue residents and businesses received the invitation to the opening of the long waited Van Ness Bus Rapid… Continue reading
Downtown San Francisco might not be “back,” but it’s slowly getting there. At least, that’s the assessment of Mayor London Breed’s office, which unveiled a six-month update to its downtown recovery plan on Tuesday. The mayor highlighted a 38% increase in office attendance since 2022, the growth of artificial intelligence… Continue reading
22 AUGUST 2023/SF POLITICS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) The tech-funded, self-described moderate community nonprofit TogetherSF, which is linked to political action group TogetherSF Action and, through its biggest funder, to the San Francisco Standard publication, has just commissioned a 76-page report that argues the reasons why SF’s political system is broken. We heard… Continue reading
