Today marks the first anniversary of Left in SF. We began on January 29th, 2005 with a warning of an attack on workers’ rights by the Committee On Jobs.
Since then we’ve averaged over 2 posts a day, and brought you the most comprehensive coverage anywhere of San Francisco schools and the city’s Tech Connect Wi-Fi initiative. We’ve been dogging the Governor from our first week, and brought you news from the streets all during the special election that followed.
We’ve been a source of information for people looking to learn more about LGB and especially T issues, and we’ve published several pictures that have struck a chord with folks on the web.
Perhaps most importantly, we stuck with our initial plan to concentrate on San Francisco and California politics, and left the ranting and raving about the depredations of the Bush Administration to other people. Mostly.
What’s on tap for Left In SF this year? I am not completely sure, but I think you will certainly see the following:
- Coverage of San Francisco elections, especially School Board.
- Coverage of San Francisco’s TechConnect project.
- Enough news and insight into the 11th Congressional District race to get folks from the inner Bay Area interested and involved in the race, even if we have to import people to do it.
- More coverage and opinion than is strictly necessary on the race for Governor.
What can we do better? Well, I think we can do a better job of covering labor. Not just the high-profile strikes, but also the way working people’s power gets put into action everyday. We can, in general, cover policy, in addition to politics, more. Kim’s ongoing coverage of the schools is an example. We can be better at encouraging discussion through comments and responding to emails.
What do you think? Why do you read Left in SF? What do you love about the site? What do you think we could do better?
January 30th, 2006 at 10:49 am
The attack on workers in San Francisco is about to become real. The Committe on Jobs, the political arm of the Chamber of Commerce, is going to put an initiative on the ballot for next November. They can’t get four supervisors to sponsor the initiative so they are going to place the initiative on the ballot by getting signatures. (You need at least four Supervisors or 10,000 valid signatures from voters to put an initiative on the ballot.)
My understanding is that it will take away “bumping” rights from workers and make it easier to terminate employees.
The rumor is that the Committe on Jobs has a poll that says the initiative will win. Rumor also has it that the Committee on Jobs is trying to use it as a tool to get Labor to make concesions. Whatever.
I say bring it on. We can defeat it at the polls. Labor will be out in force next November for the Governor’s race and if some nitwit thinks we can’t take down an anti-worker intiative when we are out in force, than I say you didn’t pay attention to the results in the last election.
Read it and weep.
http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/375
If I sound confidant, it is because I am. And bullying from the Committee on Jobs won’t change that.
January 30th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Happy anniversary. And thanks especially for the labor coverage. As for the Committee and their stupid initiative, “bring ‘em on”!