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2012/11/02

Your Guide To San Francisco's Weirdest Political Race

Friday, November 2, 2012
From the very outset, it was abundantly clear that the race for San Francisco's District Five supervisor was going to be largely defined by the candidates' relationship with City Hall.

Late last year, when Ross Mirkarimi vacated his position as the official representative of San Francisco's most progressive district to become the city's sheriff, it was widely assumed that the dynamics of the race would depend on whom Mayor Ed Lee selected to fill Mirkarimi's chair.
PLAY BY THE BAY!
Jerry Brown Makes A New Case For His Struggling Tax Plan
Ticket Tape, Arrests, Headcount: The Giants Parade By The Numbers
WATCH: MC Hammer Releases His Official Guide To Oakland
Shocking News About The State GOP
BLOG POSTS
Rep. Mike Honda: How Democrats Do Diversity: Using Voters' Language to Get Out the Vote
All linguistic minorities deserve to be approached and heard in their home languages whenever possible, because the conversation that results is fuller and richer and you tend to hear things that otherwise might not be said in English.
Sean Martinfield: Film Director Luis Valdez on Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead)
Luis Valdez -- film director, writer, playwright and founder of El Teatro Campesino -- will be appearing at Davies Hall in San Francisco on Saturday, November 3rd in the annual concert celebrating Día de los Muertos.
Debbie Messemer: Baseball and Business
As the San Francisco Giants and the Bay Area celebrate their second World Series victory in three years with a parade just a couple of blocks from our office, I can't help but think of the characteristics that made the Giants great and how they can be applied to business.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: Hurricane Sandy and the Cost of Climate Silence
Researchers have found evidence of a link between global climate change effects and increasing frequency of extreme weather. Continued silence from our elected officials is adding up to a tidal wave of economic and environmental loss in the wake of events such as Sandy.
Peter H. Gleick: Good Science, Bad Science, Uncertain Science
We may disagree among ourselves about matters of values, opinion, and policy, but we and our elected representatives must not misuse, hide, or misrepresent science and fact in service of our political wars.

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