Mayor Ed Lee’s campaign fired back at recent television attack ads from campaign rivals Friday with a counter-ad that slams San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and state Sen. Leland Yee for using public campaign money to air the spots.
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If San Francisco’s next mayor were to cancel the Central Subway project, the federal government could ask The City to pay back nearly $100 million.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency hopes to hear back soon about a $942 million federal grant that would complete funding for the $1.58 billion extension of the T-Third line. However, city attorney and mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera has vowed to nix the project if elected.
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Supervisor Sean Elsbernd asked his colleague Jane Kim a worthwhile question at Monday’s Rules Committee meeting: “What is more important to [our] communities? Having dollars available for services? Or standing on a principle that has been deemed unconstitutional?”
Kim, for the record, prefers the latter, but we’ll get back to that.
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A Brooklyn artist who has sparked outrage for killing a dog for a film received two other commissions from The City in addition to the $750,000 Central Subway contract he was awarded in June.
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In its relentless defense of the $1.6 billion Central Subway project, Muni has consistently preached to the local public that the undertaking will be a heavily used line that only has a minimal effect on the agency’s operating budget.
The federal government reports a much different story.
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Pressure is mounting for The City to terminate the $750,000 art contract with a Brooklyn, N.Y., artist who killed a dog for a film.A petition drive was started by one mayoral candidate calling for the contract’s termination and Mayor Ed Lee has told the Arts Commission to re-examine the approval. The contract with artist Tom Otterness was called into question following an article in The San Francisco Examiner’s Friday edition.
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Brooklyn artist Tom Otterness has found himself once again answering for killing a dog on film and calling it art back in 1977.
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State senator and mayoral candidate Leland Yee has launched a petition drive to convince Mayor Ed Lee and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to rescind the contract awarded to Brooklyn artist Tom Otterness.
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The Arts Commission’s selection of a Brooklyn artist for a $750,000 contract for Central Subway art has drawn criticism because the artist shot a dog in 1977 on film and called it art. But there’s another reason why the selection isn’t drawing praise. He’s a Brooklyn-based artist.
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A Brooklyn artist who once shot and killed a dog and called it art has landed a coveted $750,000 city art contract for the Central Subway.
As if the $1.6 billion railway weren’t controversial enough, artist Tom Otterness’ commission can be expected to generate criticism from dog lovers and animal rights groups.
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