This is it – years of competition betwixt the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly will culminate at a free-for-all tomorrow morning in the Thunderdome that is the recording studio of KQED-FM.
KQED Forum host Michael Krasney will play the role of Aunty Entity (seeing as how Tina Turner is unavailable). Expect the bout to begin at 9:00 AM, Friday, January 8th, 2010 on 88.5 FM and online.
It’s on - Friday, Friday, Friday!
Two Alt-Weeklies Enter, One Alt-Weekly Leaves
UPDATE: On It Goes…
“California Watch, a nonprofit and independent investigative reporting team, exposes injustice, waste, mismanagement, wrongdoing, questionable practices, and corruption so that those responsible can be held to account and so the public can be armed with the information needed to debate solutions and spark change.”
O.K. then.
Question: Will students play role in the reporting? Oh yes. What will a bunch of college kids from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Sacramento State University (aka CSU Sacramento) come up with?
Expect good things.
Bon courage, California Watch!
PS: Here the people behind CW:
Did you know that the University of San Francisco has satellite campuses in Cupertino, San Ramon, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento*? (I didn’t.) Anyway, the Jesuits are riding to the rescue for students “trapped” by the University of California and California State University, or something like that. Read all about it:
“USF has stepped up to offer select courses to Californians at its regional campuses and we’ve lowered tuition more than 50% for these courses. The courses are offered through USF Steps Up, a new program to help non-USF students trapped by the devastating budget cuts at California’s public universities and give them the classes they need to graduate.
“The University of San Francisco is committed to California’s students and is swinging open its doors in Cupertino, San Ramon, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento to help students fulfill their General Education (GE) coursework. Classes start January 25th and federal student aid may be available for eligible students attending other area universities.
USF’s main campus as it appears when Sausalito has Fourth of July fireworks:
“For over 150 years the University of San Francisco has excelled at educating California’s students. In these tough times, we hope to serve your educational needs as well. Come learn with our excellent faculty at one of our regional campuses.
What: Transferable General Education courses for spring semester 2010
When: January 25 – May 13, 2010
Where: Cupertino, San Ramon, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento
How: Attend USF as a visiting student
How much: Tuition is $560 a unit for classes in the USF Steps Up program
‘USF Steps Up’ to Offer Half Price Courses
Response to California’s Budget and Education Crisis
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15 — The University of San Francisco, a private Jesuit university, will offer a limited number of general education courses for half price at its regional campuses starting in January 2010. The courses are offered through USF Steps Up, a new program to help non-USF students trapped by the devastating budget cuts at California’s public universities and give them the classes they need to graduate.
Budget cuts at the University of California and California State University systems have resulted in layoffs, course reductions, and higher fees and left students scrambling for classes, many of which have been cancelled. “I’ve heard heartbreaking stories from my colleagues at state schools,” says Jennifer Turpin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Francisco. “Students are begging to get into classes, but they can’t graduate because they can’t get the classes they need. We realized we could help these students and California by offering these classes at our regional campuses, where USF already has a presence.”
More deets after the jump
The “Public Service Leadership Boot Camp” at the UC Berkeley Extension at 425 Market in San Francisco* kicks off on September 22, 2009. You’ll get learned for 10 weeks every Tuesday for three hours by none other than Christine Pelosi, JD , BSFS.
Is there still room in the class? I don’t know, probably – what am I, your mother? There’s always room for one more, as they say.
There she is, on the right, at the recent Public Service Leadership Forum at the extension. Click to expand.
And here are the deets:
CHRISTINE PELOSI, J.D., B.S.F.S., runs leadership boot camps for aspiring public servants across the country. Her book, Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders, emerged from her years of grassroots activism and service on the Democratic National Committee and as director of the AFSCME PEOPLE/New House PAC Congressional Candidates Boot Camp. Pelosi has served as executive director of the California Democratic Party, deputy city attorney and assistant district attorney for the City of San Francisco, HUD special counsel in the Clinton-Gore administration, and chief of staff to U.S. Congressman John F. Tierney.
Christine Pelosi to Teach Public Service Leadership Boot Camp Course at UC Berkeley Extension
Will Host Public Service Leadership Forum on September 8
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Interested in becoming an effective leader, organizer, or candidate in your community? This fall, author, attorney and activist Christine Pelosi is partnering with the Bay Area Business Round Table to offer a new course at UC Berkeley Extension: Public Service Leadership Boot Camp. The course will be offered at Extension’s downtown center in San Francisco beginning September 22.
Through collaboration with the Bay Area Business Round Table, a local non-profit that bridges societal gaps between business and communities, Pelosi brings the basic training principles of her book to the classroom. Whether you want to run for office, advocate for a cause, or win a public policy issue, this interactive class offers a 7-step program for effective campaigning at all levels of public service.
See you there!
*Oh UC Berkeley, you’ve lost your agriculture school (UC Davis), your medical school (UCSF), your first law school (UC Hastings), and now your Extension? It’s a good thing the Campanile is mortared in place, else you’d probably lose that as well.
Let’s take a look at what Mayor Gavin Newsom had to say at a recent editorial meeting over at the San Francisco Chronicle, talking about how the City of San Francisco might take on the City of Santa Clara over the 49ers wanting to move on down the Peninsula. These days, there’s talk of the San Francisco 49ers continuing on in the South Bay without any kind of a name change. Says Mr. Mayor:
“We can sue… we’re a 49 square mile city, founded in 1849 by the 49ers. The city [Santa Clara] can’t take the name ‘49ers‘.”
Ooh, numbers!
1. So let’s see here, the name of the Niners has something to do with the land area of the City of San Francisco? Really? Never heard of that. Actually, S.F. is a 46-something square mile city, and it used to be a lot smaller especially back in the day. You can add up everything, all our filled-in areas (like the FiDi and the Marina) and then throw in the islands (like the Farallones and Red Rock) and then sprinkle in the parts of islands that are part of San Francisco that shouldn’t be (like Angel Island and Alameda(!) Island) and all that totals just 46. 7 square miles.
(Of course people use the term “7 by 7″ but that’s just an approximation.)
So, how can you sue over something like this?
Strike one.
The Mayor seems to do better calm and prepared, as shown, as opposed to pissed off and off-the-cuff, as he was for at least a brief moment at the Chron’s Ed Board.
2. San Francisco was founded in 1776 and incorporated in 1850. So, 1849 is close, but no cigar. What other cities can also claim 1850 incorporation? Well, how about all the big ones? El Lay, Fun Diego, San Hoser, Sactown (Sacramento, Sacramento where you at?), the list goes on. (Something to do with the Compromise of 1850, they learned us in school in Sacratomatoe.)
How can you sue over something like this?
Strike two.
Do the Gold Rush cheerleaders know the way to San Jose? They seemed to be baffled by San Francisco’s Civic Center / Tenderloin / Little Saigon area, thereby causing a stir a few years back.
The little girl, nobody notices the little girl being ignored, if ever so briefly, by her caretaker(s), with a loud sigh and a dramatic crossing of the arms.
3. Now if you want to talk about how San Francisco was incorporated by 49ers, people who came here in 1849 looking for gold and whatnot, well, feel free to say that. But so were other cities, specifically Grass Valley, CA and, indeed, Santa Clara. I don’t know how you can use that as an argument. How can you sue over something like this?
Ball one.
We’ll have to leave this at a count of one and two. (Gavin could have thrown in our 49-Mile Scenic Drive as well, but that would only encourage Santa Clara to follow suit with their own. Can you imagine going on that tour? You’d have to handcuff the tourists to their seats after the first half-mile.)
Could jazzy New Orleans have sued when the Utah Jazz basketball team wanted to move to Salt Lake City and yet still keep the green, purple and gold colours of Mardi Gras? Sacre Bleu!
Could somebody today sue Mill Valley-based ”Ferrari of San Francisco” for not actually being ”of San Francisco”?
The World Wonders.
