Word: franciscos
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...year elections are rarely rousing�affairs. But along with mayoral elections in cities like Houston, Pittsburgh and San Francisco, plus statehouse contests galore, the results have offered some clues to the larger national mood. How are voters feeling? Tightfisted, slightly libertarian and, above all, tired of corruption...
...municipalities - Denver, Colorado, and the small town of Hailey, Idaho - passed pro-marijuana measures on election day this week, joining a growing number of liberal localities that are reducing or removing penalties on using pot. It's part of a slowly evolving populist rehabilitation of the drug. San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica in California, along with Missoula, Montana, and Seattle, Washington, have previously passed laws that give the lowest priority to enforcing existing marijuana laws...
...million books sold worldwide) has written another heart-pounding, ripped-from-the-headlines novel (his 15th), The Race (Holt). Just in time for the 2008 election, Patterson delves into the rough and tumble world of Presidential campaigns. TIME's Andrea Sachs reached Patterson at his home in San Francisco (he splits his time between there and Martha's Vineyard), just before he began his writing...
...million books sold worldwide) has written another heart-pounding, ripped-from-the-headlines novel (his 15th), The Race (Holt). Just in time for the 2008 election, Patterson delves into the rough and tumble world of Presidential campaigns. TIME's Andrea Sachs reached Patterson at his home in San Francisco (he splits his time between there and Martha's Vineyard), just before he began his writing...
...feel like the reason I’m going into real estate was because of an experience I had working on a design for a building in San Francisco,” Chen says of his summer at an architecture firm between high school and college, “when the client said, ‘I don’t like your design, I’m going to switch over to another firm’. Just like that. That’s what drove me to be on the owner’s side.” Money...