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  PITCH: Mid-Market Blight - Issues at the Center of our City.

  Posted Tuesday, December 8, 2009 by Susie Cagle in Bay Area- San Francisco

  Since the city outlawed signage and tore up the thoroughfare for BART construction in 1970, mid-Market has remained an odd no-man's land in the heart of an affluent, world-class urban center.

  Tourists strolling down the picturesque boulevard of upper Market, shopping bags in tow, expect San Francisco’s Champs Elyseés… Read More »

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  PITCH: Investor’s Club: Do the UC Regents Spin Public Funds into Private Profit?

  Posted Thursday, December 31, 2009 by Peter Byrne in Bay Area- San Francisco

   

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  With thousands of students protesting huge tuition hikes, the public needs to know who benefits from controlling the University of California’s $53 billion in Wall Street investments. That is billion, with a B!
  
  Several very wealthy, politically powerful men are fixtures on the regent's… Read More »

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  PITCH: The cost of the DNA backlog

  Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by Justin McLachlan in Los Angeles

  A year ago, the LA City Auditor reported that the backlog of DNA samples waiting to be tested by the Los Angeles Police Department had grown to nearly 7,000 with hundreds languishing beyond the legal deadlines.

  This year, the LAPD says it reduced that backlog by nearly two-thirds, but they… Read More »

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  PITCH: Sounds of Silence on ‘Separation Agreement’ for Community College Chancellor

  Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by LA Beez in Los Angeles

  Marshall E. (Mark) Drummond recently resigned his post as chancellor of the
  Los Angeles Community College District, leaving the job with two years left on his contract and a $428,750 payoff.

  District officials say that a confidentiality agreement prevents them from discussing the reasons for Drummond’s departure, which… Read More »