Entries from SFist tagged with 'communitycollege'
December 12, 2007
Cris takes some time off the Bonds case to support her lady. No one pulled out a bitch's clump of hair. That's the big news. Oh, and some other stuff happened, ahem: The Club's membership voted tonight on the February 2008 ballot and the June 2008 State Senate primary, and the endorsements are... Prop 92 (Community College Funding) - Yes Props 94 - 97 (Gaming Compacts) - No Prop A (Neighborhood Parks Bond) -......
Continue Reading "Last Night's Harvey Milk Club Civility"November 27, 2006
We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from David Latterman's analysis (.pdf) of the yes votes on our favorite proposition this season: Question Time Proposition I! Greens are nos, blues are yes. Look at all those haters in Districts 7 and 8 who didn't want us to ask Gavin......
Continue Reading "Random Political Odds And Ends"November 23, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving! --Speaking of Thanksgiving, thanks very much to Pat Murphy of the San Francisco Sentinel, who was nice enough to pass along William Wilson's picture of Gavin and squeeze of the moment Jennifer Siebel. Here's another picture of the couple at Stanlee Gatti's art exhibition. --It looks like after the provisional ballots are counted, incumbent Johnnie Carter may just squeak by John Rizzo (the Green Party candidate) for the SF Community College board,......
Continue Reading "Day Around The Bay"August 2, 2006
Growing up we went to a stuffy high school where Latin, Ancient Greek and even a little Sanskrit was taught. In college we surprised ourselves by diving head-first into media theory, examining how the thought patterns of literate people are fundamentally different from people within a solely oral tradition. It's a fascinating subject (OK, yes, we're geeks), but this meant we read Andrew O'Hehir's article on Andrew Dalby's book positing that Homer was a......
Continue Reading "Bay Area Blog Round-Up"October 20, 2004
SFist can't get enough of our local bookstores. When we've blown all our money on beer, we've also been known to reserve books from the San Francisco Public Library. That's how much we love that reading thing. Sfist Emily has been burning the midnight oil with The Social Contruction of Reality: a reatise in the sociology of knowledge by Berger and Luckmann (and a book so esoteric that even the venerable SFPL doesn't have it......
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