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San Francisco accessibility lawsuit heads to trial
For 3½ years, San Francisco has been embroiled in a lawsuit brought by a wheelchair-bound woman who alleges that The City does not do enough to make its sidewalks, parks, libraries and pools accessible to the disabled.
The class-action lawsuit is set to go to trial next month in a federal court in Oakland. The case does not seek monetary damages, but rather seeks to force The City to spend far more than it currently does on accessibility in its public right-of-ways and public parks. The suit could also cost The City millions in attorney fees, on top of the money already spent defending the case.
- Crime & Courts
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San Francisco's stalled sit-lie law waiting on the printer
The latest cause for pause in enforcement of The City’s controversial sit-lie ordinance? The print shop.
- Transportation
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City College of San Francisco strives to stop abuse of local-hiring provision
City College of San Francisco trustees want to crack down on contractors who for years have ignored a requisite to — in good faith — hire locally for construction projects.
- Other News
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San Francisco's Lyon-Martin clinic races to avoid closure
A 30-year-old clinic named after The City’s most famous lesbian couple has one month to raise $500,000 or else its board of directors will start to pull the plug.
Sports
- Prep Sports
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Top area prep basketball teams take aim at state title
As far as the Burlingame High School boys’ basketball team is concerned, history has repeated itself more than enough. For the second straight year, the Panthers fell to Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Central Coast Section’s Division III championship, a 41-32 loss Saturday. And the Panthers (26-4) are hoping to avoid last year’s fate in the Northern California bracket of the CIF State Championships, where they fell on the road to Miramonte by six points in the opening round in 2010. Burlingame will host its opening-round game this year, a 7 p.m. tipoff on Tuesday against Weston Ranch (26-3) of Stockton.
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An easy solution for fixing the NFL’s labor stalemate
The new deadline for NFL owners to reach an agreement with the NFLPA is Friday night, and the clock is ticking. In the spirit of compromise, here is an equitable split of the four key negotiating points.
Arts
- Books
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Author encourages 'pro-curl revolution'
Lorraine Massey, author of “Curly Girl: The Handbook,” will speak at noon Tuesday at Madusalon, 300 Divisadero St., S.F.; at 7 p.m. Tuesday at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland; and at noon Wednesday at Peninsula Beauty in Burlingame.
Features
Opinion
Nation & World
- Nation
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Ron Arnold: Obama's 'starve America first' energy policy creates a backlash
"Energy is the capacity to do work." That simple truth from Physics 101 has everything to do with gas prices spiking at the pump as Moammar Gadhafi's war planes bomb Libya's rebel-held oil district and the whole Middle East seethes in unrest.
With shaky foreign energy supplies threatening to deepen the worst recession since World War II, w
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Examiner Editorial: Upton, Hastings athwart Obama agenda yelling 'Stop!'
It's hard to find two more interesting or important congressional panels these days than the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee, chaired, respectively, by Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan and Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington.
- Nation
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Obama eyeing soaring oil costs, voter discontent
Rising oil costs are threatening political gains President Obama made in recent months, with each uptick in pump prices increasing the likelihood that already uncertain voters will start blaming the president for the drain on their pocketbooks.
The political protests roiling oil-rich countries throughout the Middle East are starting to aff
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