ICOC members must now approve Robert Klein. As was widely expected, Palo Alto businessman Robert Klein was nominated Monday to lead the board that will oversee California s $3 billion in bonds for stem cell research. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and Controller Steve Westly on Monday announced th
Charity feeds those afflicted with HIV virus. For the 18,000 people living with HIV or AIDS in San Francisco, sometimes it s simply too difficult to make -- or even buy -- a hot meal. That s where Project Open Hand comes in. The 20-year-old organization provides groceries as well as hot or frozen meals to as many as 8,
Fund-slashing supervisors eye performing arts. The audience for today s City Hall budget hearing is likely to be an usually talented bunch of performing arts enthusiasts, heading to the supervisors chambers to sing for their supper as arts funding is on the chopping block. Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, who chairs the Bu
Freedom of speech is quickly becoming a thing of the past. In its stead come political correctness, intolerance and, finally, the silencing of America. The First Amendment is being redefined. Freedom of speech and tolerance for diversity of thought and ideas now includes lists of dos and don ts. On the official list: D
In a ritual usually reserved for the spring budget season, city health care workers took to the steps of City Hall Wednesday night to decry a round of budget cuts they say will harm The City s most vulnerable. With $23 million in health care cuts proposed, the nurses and social workers stood in the drizzle and lamented
-- Williams to be feted for 40-year tenure at church. Glide Memorial Church is to commemorate the Rev. Cecil Williams four decades of service at Glide s helm and honor his ceaseless efforts to unite his growing congregation under a banner of spirituality, compassion and diversity at a star-studded gala at the San Franc
Carol Pop-leaning punks and emo-rock kiddies team up for A Santa Cause: It s a Punk Rock Christmas (Immortal Records) to raise money for the Elizabeth Glazer Foundation for Pediatric AIDS and inject this sleepy holiday season with some bratty energy. Knock back a few cups of spiked egg nog and mosh around the Xmas tree
New Mission Bay site to house $76M research facility. SAN FRANCISCO - Today, the University of California, San Francisco is celebrating its affiliation with a new $76 million biomedical research facility, devoted to curing three of the world s most devastating diseases: heart disease, AIDS and Alzheimer s. Located in M
The Project T study beginning this year offers a new approach to a potential HIV vaccine, because instead of trying to help people produce antibodies that fight infection, it presents a substance that mimics the virus in hopes that certain white-blood cells will develop the ability to recognize and destroy the real thi
AIDS researchers forge ahead with tests on new drug. San Francisco HIV researchers are putting their attention on branching out beyond behavioral prevention strategies that have been successful at limiting -- but not eliminating -- the disease. Vaccines hold promise, explained Dr. Susan Buchbinder of the Public Health
SFPD estimates 25 gay male officers on force. Alarmed that The City, often viewed as the nation s gay capital, has only about 25 gay male officers in its 2,100-strong police department, cops have undertaken their first recruitment drive specifically targeting this community. For the past month, ending today, cops have
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi scolded colleagues over a $388 billion spending bill passed Saturday, but managed to bring home plenty of money for parks, transportation and social services to the district she represents. Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, voted to pass the bill while chiding the Republican leadership for
WHETHER YOU RE GAY or straight, activist or apolitical, hear and heed the words of Mark Leno the other night at an awards dinner held by amfAR, the respected organization that funds research and education into AIDS. The times they are a-changin , as the man said, so here s the heads-up. To those who say the struggle fo
Mayor weighs in, sides with homeowners. Faced with an outpouring of concern over a proposed law that would sharply limit the conversion of apartment buildings into condominiums, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he would oppose the measure. The plan by Supervisor Chris Daly, backed by tenant activists and the AIDS Hous
Shouting matches mark discussion of changes to law. Hundreds of tenants and landlords mobbed a City Hall hearing Monday in an emotional clash over proposals to reduce landlords control over properties. Tenant activists rallied on the City Hall steps, both sides argued in the hallways and landlords engaged in sporadic s
Aiming to protect vulnerable tenants, city supervisors are moving forward with two controversial housing proposals that would limit landlords control over their buildings. Supervisor Chris Daly is carrying legislation that would bring two-unit apartment buildings into The City s condo-conversion lottery process and sha
On Monday, a committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to consider a plan to restrict the conversion of rental apartments into condominiums and to extend such restrictions to two-unit buildings. In many ways, this proposal represents the overall tug-of-war between San Francisco tenant advocates and Rea
Stem cell research in California received a $3 billion boost Tuesday night, when Californians voted decisively in favor of Proposition 71. Approved by over 5.6 million people and almost 60 percent of voters, the proposition promises to create a governmental organization that will administer research funds to not-for-pr
REDWOOD CITY - The first man in San Mateo County history to be charged with a special HIV-related enhancement was sentenced to two years in state prison Friday. San Francisco resident Marty Tagle, 37, was sentenced in San Mateo County Superior Court on Friday after pleading guilty in September to one count of oral copu
With less than two weeks to go before Election Day, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger s endorsement of Proposition 71 Monday upped the ante for opponents of the measure, which would boost human stem cell research with a $3 billion state bond. Although California Nurses Association president Deborah Burger acknowledged that th
GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER came into office last year with relatively little known about how he would govern. And in the course of the 2004 legislative session in Sacramento he surprised plenty of lawmakers, sometimes vetoing bills that he had been expected to support and passing others that he had earlier criticized.
Recent scandals cause scrutiny of city-funded groups. City officials are again closely examining the oversight for the hundreds of millions in city dollars paid to nonprofit groups, concerned that taxpayers aren t getting what they re paying for. Prompted by two high-profile investigations into groups tied to political
The state s stem cell ballot measure, which would raise up to $350 million a year for stem cell research, is bringing the controversial topic front-and-center for voters this fall. Proposition 71 would have the state borrow $3 billion to fund stem cell research over 10 years. The bond measure would create a new Califor
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a conservative-sponsored bill requiring schools to notify parents when they plan to bring an outside speaker into the classroom to talk about sex education issues. It s all about giving the parents the right to remove their students from perceived questionable teachings that lie co
Pamper Every penny of the proceeds from the sale of Kiehl s Eucalyptus Bath and Shower Liquid Body Cleanser goes directly to YouthAIDS, a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS among young people (15-24) around the world. Immerse yourself in the warm and spicy scent of this Australian, her
Giants manager Felipe Alou has re-aligned the rotation to open the season s second half. Sunday he announced that right-hander Jerome Williams will get the start Thursday in Colorado. Williams (8-6, 4.66 ERA) impressed Alou with his performance Friday, when he locked up with future Hall of Famer Randy Johnson and came
BILL CLINTON COMES to town today, direct from Los Angeles, where he did his book signing at a small shop in South Central. The San Francisco he ll see will also be circumscribed, if indubitably pretty. He ll be down at the Ferry Building at 2:30 this afternoon, signing his work at Books Passage, looking out at the Bay,
Fishnets and fabulous frocks still reigned supreme at the 2004 annual Pride Parade, but beneath all the pixie-dust, the march was perhaps one of the most potently political in years, as the gay community vowed to fight for the right to wed and be spouses for life. The 34th Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride March,
Jeff Sheehy is the mayor s new volunteer HIV/AIDS advisor, the Mayor s Office announced Thursday. Sheehy, currently the deputy director for communications at the University of California, San Francisco s AIDS Research Institute, will assist Mayor Gavin Newsom in crafting AIDS policies and programs, as well as studying
Mayor Gavin Newsom formally submitted his first city budget Tuesday, a $4.89 billion proposal open to two months of Board of Supervisors scrutiny before the controller certifies the package on Aug. 1. Relying on a three-legged approach of deep cuts, labor concessions and new taxes, Newsom spared many direct services an
REDWOOD CITY - If you are a white woman in San Mateo County, you are almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer as a black, Hispanic or Asian woman. On the other hand, blacks are two to three times more likely to die from diabetes than other races, and have much higher rates of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease,
City officials are finding some sunshine for San Francisco as they examine Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger s May revision of his January budget proposal more closely. Preliminary estimates show that San Francisco s loss from the state has shrunk by $41.9 million in the revised budget. A few key social service programs have
Local officials were poring over the governor s state budget proposal Thursday night, with hopes of finding some relief from $97 million in local cuts in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger s January proposals. Gerardo Sandoval, chair of the Board of Supervisor s Finance Committee, said the new $103 billion state budget appears
SAN MATEO - Dr. Dennis Israelski sits in his cramped office in the San Mateo Medical Center, deciding whether to answer the phone that seems to ring incessantly or continue to illustrate the breadth of his work within the one-hour framework of an interview. It s not easy. Israelski s enthusiasm for his work leads him t
The Department of Public Health announced more proposed cuts to its budget Friday that in part call for the closure of four San Francisco mental health clinics. The department released its contingency plan to be reviewed by the Health Commission on Tuesday. While the commission already approved $12.6 million in base bu
One is a battered and beautiful monument to the Mission s once-thriving theater district, a shuttered former furniture warehouse with peeling paint and a 70-foot art deco marquee piercing the sky. The other is a bustling Castro restaurant, an evolution of the gay community scene that has found a home there in recent de
BELMONT - Alastair Humphreys sat in a T-shirt and flip-flops at a dining room table in Belmont and smiled as he talked about the job he almost took. The 27-year-old Yorkshire, England native had an offer to become a schoolteacher in Oxford after graduating from a university, but got cold feet at the last moment. I c
Franciscans each year and that number would likely rise as punishing budget cuts force screening clinics to scale back. With a cosmopolitan mix of new migrants and a large homeless population, The City s TB infection rate is four times the national average, said Dr. Masae Kawamura, director of the San Francisco TB Con
Faced with having to choose between his life-saving AIDS medication and his weekly acupuncture treatments, Jeffrey Seegers would rather take the acupuncture. Seegers is one of 750 patients who rely on the $4 million in Ryan White federal funds given to San Francisco to provide the acupuncture, herbal treatments and mas
Standing beneath the lights on a wide stage normally reserved for rock stars, the power of her voice rising, 17-year-old Sophia Garcia is the essence of real girl power. A junior at Ida B. Wells High School and member of the 30-member teen team that helped plan the fourth annual Young Women s Health Conference, Garcia
REDWOOD CITY -- In an unusual move, the Planning Commission halted its Tuesday night meeting, sending city staff members behind closed doors to rework ordinance language required for the approval of a project that would bring more than 500 jobs to the area. Abbott Laboratories , a multimillion dollar health-care produc
City health officials are appealing to reluctant African-Americans to take part in clinical trials for an HIV vaccine, in the hopes of curbing the epidemic among blacks, who show a high rate of infection for AIDS. Recently, the federal government issued the San Francisco Black Coalition on AIDS a $20,000 grant to recru
In spite of the rain, or perhaps because of it, the earliest signs of spring are showing in what is sometimes inexplicably called a city of no seasons. One morning last week, just as I wondered whether the copious blooms of jasmine in a plant box on Broadway near Hyde Street had been there the day before, a flock of fl
It was a week of protest and hand wringing in San Francisco as the full impact of state budget cuts set in for city officials, activists and those citizens who will feel the loss. Ben Rosenfield, director of the mayor s budget office, on Thursday told the Board of Supervisor s Budget Committee that a thorough examinati
REDWOOD CITY -- The San Mateo County district attorney s first time use of laws that could add years onto the sentence of an HIV-positive man charged with statutory rape of a teenage boy has sparked debate among AIDS activists because of its multi-layered nature. This is a very complex case with a lot of legal nuances,
San Franciscans living with AIDS, elderly people needing home care and college students are among the hardest hit in a $100 million battering to The City in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger s proposed budget cuts. City officials reeled Friday as details of the 2004-05 budget emerged, describing it as an assault on the needy
Dwana Simone Bain and Sabrina Crawford, Staff Writers
DALY CITY -- In what could become a historical local case, the San Mateo County District Attorney s Office has charged a 36-year-old statutory rape suspect with exposing a 16-year-old boy to HIV. On Jan. 7, San Francisco resident Marty Tagle pleaded not guilty to charges including multiple counts of lewd and lascivious
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