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  • Redistricting and the 'communities of interest' (How about "gayborhoods",armenians&black farmers?)

    07/16/2011 10:29:58 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies
    SFGate.com ^ | 7/16/11 | Paul Saffo
    Do you live in a "gayborhood"? Are you part of an Armenian sub-community or do you reside among black farmers and agriculturists? These and myriad other questions that most of us have never thought to ask will be answered Aug. 15, the day the Citizen's Redistricting Commission is scheduled to release its final maps. .. Among the criteria that the commission must consider when drawing its boundaries is "community of interest," a concept so vague as to remind one of Justice Potter Stewart's famous definition of pornography - "I know it when I see it." Knowing a community when one...
  • SAN FRANCISCO: Jeff Adachi persona non grata at funeral

    06/12/2011 8:21:50 AM PDT · by SmithL · 3 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/12/11 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
    Noticeably missing from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee's lengthy introduction of the city's "official family" at Friday's funeral of two firefighters was public defender and pension reform advocate Jeff Adachi. That's because Adachi, who had been standing with other dignitaries at the memorial outside of St. Mary's Cathedral, was asked to leave before the service started.According to witnesses, a large firefighter in uniform came up to Adachi and asked him to leave, at the request of a member of the fallen firefighter's family.When asked about the incident, Adachi confirmed that he had been asked to leave. "I had gone to...