Day March 4, 2003

San Francisco psychodrama Here’s the story. Alex Fagan,an assistant chief of police in SF has a thuggish son, Alex Jr., on the force. Junior apparently assaulted some innocent bystanders one night while off duty. So far so bad. But then the department…

California energy market abuses the ‘tip of the iceberg’ “California officials accused 70 energy companies and municipal utilities of using 10 principle schemes to push up prices in the state, and said the findings of a 103-day investigation represented only…

First we blow you up, then we rebuild you. “The retired general tapped by the Bush administration to oversee rebuilding of post-war Iraq was, until just a few weeks ago, an executive at a leading defense contractor working on missile…

California bill will allow cities to change voting systems This is huge. If passed, it will allow cities to choose alternate voting systems, like Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) and Proportional Representation (PR) – something which will greatly aid third parties…

Percussive Democracy Via ProRev “To test the theory that a good way to bring democracy to a country is to bomb it to smithereens, Vietnam Veterans Against the War offer this list of countries compiled by William Blum where we…