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During the five-day strike last week, many teaching assistants at both schools did not teach their regular classes and instead stood in picket lines or participated in rallies...
...deaths on the street 40%. Health insurance is now guaranteed to every uninsured San Francisco resident under the age of 25 at a cost of $48 a year. Newsom also personally halted a strike at 14 hotels across the city late last year. He stood on the picket lines with unions, though the hotel lobby had written checks to his campaign, before brokering a cooling-off period that still continues. "I'm the first to say that I've no idea what I'm doing," says Newsom. "There's no manual here for how to be mayor." Tip for publishers...
...height, the pitch of the roof, the size and configuration of porches. Yet the rules change sensibly from neighborhood to neighborhood. On north-south avenues, for instance, large front yards are required, thus leaving ocean views unobstructed even from points well inland; the same homeowners, however, must erect streetside picket fences to provide pedestrians a reassuring sense of scale and enclosure. Along Seaside's widest boulevard, the guidelines will produce grand houses with verandas...
...Yale Daily News reported yesterday that some professors may lead sections themselves or hold sections off-campus to avoid crossing picket lines...
...think about it, will be profoundly uncomfortable. I’d like to see a prominent Democrat dare the anti-abortion leaders to support a widespread revamping of sexual education, to hand out free condoms in high schools, or teach a class on responsible sexual behavior before they picket abortion clinics. And I’d like to see those Dems get up and say that there are worse things facing our country than a two second sight of a woman’s breast—like poverty, health care, and yep, the restriction of reproductive rights...