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Jun 15, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Quentin L. Kopp |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar
• • • • • • • • • • April 27, 2024 • • • • • • • • • • President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while still New York state’s governor in 1932, warned: “Any government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.” California’s deficit must be cured by June 15, 2024 under California’s Constitution (Article IV, Sec. 12 [c].
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May 28, 2024 | 
48hills.org | George Wooding
Supervisor Myrna Melgar, Mayor London Breed, and SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin have attempted to redirect traffic on the first block of the West Portal Avenue. The proposed changes would hurt West Portal Avenue businesses, cause traffic congestion, and destroy the character of surrounding neighborhoods. From the San Francisco Standard, April 18:“If it were up to me, I would take all of the cars off West Portal,” Melgar said.
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May 13, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | John Farrell |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar
Eliminate the City Administrator from the Charter Budget Reform: Step #1 •••••••••• May 13, 2024 •••••••••• Our City is at a crossroads. We can either continue the downward spiral of government waste, unneeded bureaucracy, and patronage or start running City Hall as a business with accountability, transparency, and integrity. Let’s start at the top.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Taylor Telford |David Romano |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw
Homeless, helpless people seek respite at Ocean Beach • • • • • • • • • • April 2024 • • • • • • • • • • January 1, 2024, 9 AM - La Playa St. A young man, perhaps thirty, with a metal cane and backpack, one bare foot in a flip flop, the other foot bandaged and in a shoe (his walking looked painful), wearing a camouflage hoody.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Derek Kerr |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar
Disinfected Agency Rates Stagnant After Clean-up • • • • • • • Mardh 21, 2024 • • • • • • • Two years into Dennis Herrera’s tenure atop the SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), the 2023 “Employee Voice Survey” denotes stagnation rather than recovery Former City Attorney Dennis Herrera was appointed General Manager of the SFPUC in November 2021. According to Transparent California, Herrera then received $406,120 in salary plus $100,854 in benefits.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Brett Wilkins |David Romano |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw
Stop installing artificial turf and cementing parklands — Park & Rec should be leading the environmental revolution • • • • • • • • • • March 21, 2024 • • • • • • • • • • YYou can see the news in the San Francisco Chronicle every Sunday: Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World, by Steve Newman.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Glenn Rogers |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar
• • • • • • • March 21, 2024 • • • • • • • Recently, with numerous locations of hydrogen gas found naturally inside the earth, this energy source is beginning to be considered as an opportunity for a clean energy future.1 WHAT IS HYDROGEN Hydrogen is the first element in the Periodic Table. Hydrogen is one of the most common elements in the universe and makes up 75% of all matter. Hydrogen is odorless and colorless and was first discovered in 1766 by Henry Cavendish of England.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Jonathan Farrell |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar
Office of Economic and Workforce Development is in charge of the project • • • • • • • • March 21, 2024 • • • • • • • • At an elevation of 928 feet, Twin Peaks is near the geographical center of San Francisco — among the highest mountains in San Francisco, next to Mount Davidson, “Twin Peaks is a landmark and very iconic,” Tom Radulovich, Executive Director at Livable City, said.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Linda Ayres-Frederick |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar
• • • • • • • March 21, 2024 • • • • • • • Brilliantly nuanced, Dominique Morisseau's PIPELINE reveals the complexities of Black parenting in the inner city. This is not the Company Director L. Peter Callender’s first production of the play, and his sure hand shows it by mining every possible emotional subtlety, tension, and explosion from the gorgeously crafted script and his experienced ensemble.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
westsideobserver.com | Quentin L. Kopp |George Wooding |Patrick Monette-Shaw |Supervisor Myrna Melgar
• • • • • • • • • • November 2023 • • • • • • • • • • As we prepare to pay out our federal and state income taxes pursuant to two extensions granted this year by the always-benevolent Internal Revenue Service and Franchise Tax Board, I’m reminded of quips meriting reiteration, such as: “Sorry people feel the government owes them a living! The rest of us would gladly settle for a small tax refund.” Dissection of electing supervisors by 11 districts continues, although not destined for the...
