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Commented on "Neighborhood Schools" Late Addition to D1 Candidate David Lee's Campaign
It's election time, and Brown vs. Board of Education is what the West side cares about, so that's what they trot out every time. FYI, McCoppin, which is in D1, was one of the two least-desired neighborhood schools in the...
Commented on SFPD Comes Out Swinging Against Protesters: Mugshots Circulated, Connection To Mission Vandalism Alleged (Video)
From the race sections of those booking sheets, it seems that they arrested the White Bloc by mistake....
Commented on Construction Workers Find Mammoth Remains At Transbay Transit Center Jobsite
Its last words were "You weren't born here, go back to Beringia"....
Commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
Their slogan should be "Quality Neighborhood Schools for All (of Us)". On the one hand, they decry the fact that they have to move or go private if they don't win the lottery, but on the other hand they decry...
Commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
She sure seems to meet a lot of kids commuting to the Marina from Bayview: But it was meeting a seven-year old girl from the Bayview, making an hour-long commute to school in the Marina on Muni by herself, that...
Commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
Sorry I didn't have time to elaborate earlier. There is no limit to the number of schools that a parent can choose in the current algorithm. That was the only positive change in the move away from the old choice...
Commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
Under the school district's current assignment system, parents select a list of seven preferred schools. If a school has more applicants than spaces available, officials look at a series of criteria called tiebreakers to decide which student should receive higher...
Commented on SFPD Now Saying Man They Thought They Shot Instead Shot Himself
Terrible of him to shoot an unarmed man like that....
Commented on Activists Call For FBI Investigation After SFPD Shoots And Kills Man During Muni Fare Inspection
Since the shooter had committed Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution and a Federal Firearms violation, I suspect there's already an FBI and ATF case....
Commented on SF Pride Threatens Videographer With Legal Action To Fight Association With Mid-Market Shooting
Maybe Pride should choose a new name to avoid the association. I would suggest "San Francisco Gay Pride Streisand Effect Shooting Festival Blam Blam Blam"....
Commented on SFPD Releases Name Of One Suspect In Mid-Market Shooting That Injured Five
I couldn't find an FB account that matches his age, but I found this fascinating tidbit: http://www.vilegaming.com/page.php?id=417 He plays Starcraft -- Protoss even....
Commented on Gavin Newsom Moves From San Francisco To Marin, But Is It For Good?
Putting your junk in storage while you look for a new place? That just seems odd....
Commented on Alioto-Pier "Legal Defense Fund" $86K In Debt, Is Mayoral Candidate Banking On Contributions Or Just "Cheap"?
Can it really be called a defense fund if she's not being prosecuted for anything? It's more like an offense fund....
Commented on Supes Vote To Lift Lower Pacific Heights Restaurant Ban
Hunger is a serious problem in the city....
Commented on SF Launches Initiative To Reduce Health Care Costs For City Workers
SF General isn't in the program?...
Commented on Tenant Troubles: Why Do You Assume All Landlords Are Rich?
Of course landlords are rich. How else can they support their tenants? (Actually the short-term tenants support the long term ones, on average. Mixing housing and options trading is so much fun.)...
Commented on SFPD Videogate Cops Suspended For Year Without Pay
Freedom of speech was such a tiresome right anyways....
Commented on Tenant Troubles: If I'm Rich, Am I Still Protected By Rent Control?
The rent ordinance has the most Zegnatronic explanation of economics ever....
Commented on Former D2 Supe Michela Alioto-Pier Joins SF Mayor's Race
She is somewhat hampered by the fact that most San Franciscans regard D2 as something akin to Brigadoon....
Commented on Six Injured After Taxi/Limo Accident At Sutter And Jones
The roads just aren't safe for limousinists....
Commented on "Official" SF Homicide Number Decreases, As Lower Haight Deaths Drop Off
We didn't have enough crime, so we ordered out....
Commented on Woman's Body Found In Burning Car In Lower Haight Too Badly Damaged To Immediately Identify
The location is the same; I was just noting that it's not a public street, it's technically a private driveway. As a result I have to park my burning bodies elsewhere, which can be quite a chore on street-cleaning days....
Commented on Woman's Body Found In Burning Car In Lower Haight Too Badly Damaged To Immediately Identify
Rose Street isn't a street on that block -- it's on the property of the $42 million HUD Hayes Valley HOPE VI Housing Development, the same place that had the stabbing last week....
Commented on The Era Officially Ends: Newsom To Be Sworn In As CA's 49th Lieutenant Governor Today
I've been meaning to ask -- what does a Lieutenant Governor do? As I understand it a Lieutenant Governor is good for holding down papers when the wind blows, but are there other duties?...
Commented on "Surprise move" Of SFPD Chief Gascon To District Attorney Causes "snowball effect of interim appointments"
...in a petri dish kind of way....
Commented on Sit/Lie Lost In Haight, Won In Pac Heights, Seacliff, West of Twin Peaks
In my experience, no one has ever gotten better by sleeping on a sidewalk....
Commented on Sit/Lie Lost In Haight, Won In Pac Heights, Seacliff, West of Twin Peaks
OK I found it -- the N and O columns in the spreadsheet are labelled "Yes" and "No", but they're the reverse. Apparently there are "Not Yes" and "Not No" voting tabulations. But that means Upper Haight voted for it...crap...
Commented on Sit/Lie Lost In Haight, Won In Pac Heights, Seacliff, West of Twin Peaks
I just looked up our adjacent precinct on Haight, and L got a whopping 62% there, the next block 60%, the next 57, 55, 52... Except for one precinct in Buena Vista, the entire Lower Haight and much of upper...
Commented on Sit/Lie Lost In Haight, Won In Pac Heights, Seacliff, West of Twin Peaks
The struggle for gay lounging is always dear to our hearts....
Commented on Sit/Lie Lost In Haight, Won In Pac Heights, Seacliff, West of Twin Peaks
I live on Haight, and L got 57.6% of the vote in my precinct. I'm having trouble following -- were gay people not allowed to sit on the sidewalk?...

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Don Krause commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
As the primary author of Prop H I want to thank Ms. Rees for her support of the measure and her focus on education in general. Now I would like to hear more about how she, as mayor, would help to make SFUSD schools a better for every student in the district. We know that Carlos Garcia has focused his efforts on the few. I'd like to know what she can do for the benefit of everyone and, more precisely, how the Mayor can influence the SFUSD, which is not part of city government....
Don Krause commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
A better place ... ah yes, a better place indeed....
Parent commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
Joanna seems to be riding MUNI a lot lately :) Vote No on Prop H — neighborhood school assignment is only great for those lucky (or rich) enough to live in a few neighborhoods....
Parent commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
Schools in the Richmond District (where most people backing Prop H live) are heavily segregated. With a stronger “neighborhood” preference, these schools will become even more segregated. That’s what the backers of Prop H want. 10 % of the SFUSD student population is African American 24 % of the SFUSD student population is Hispanic yet, look at ALAMO and ARGONNE ELEMENTARY ALAMO .72 % African American students (4 students out of 550) ??? 5 % Hispanic students (28 students out of 550) ARGONNE 3 % African American students (12 students out of 406) ??? 6.9 % Hispanic students (28 students...
CarolineSF commented on Multitask Campaigning: With Room 200 Out of Reach, Mayoral Candidate Rees Shifts Focus To Schools
Setting the record straight on some of Rees' misstatements -- which the press shouldn't be printing unchallenged and unquestioned: Misleading Rees claim No. 1: "I met 1,000 parents today, and if I had taken a poll, I bet 950 of them would say they weren't able to send their kids to their neighborhood school," said Rees, who recounted a block in Bernal Heights where 20 parents sent students to 20 different schools. Fact: This is clearly intended to convey that all those parents send their kids to 20 different schools because they can't get into the Bernal schools. That's eye-poppingly...

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