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‘Driven Out’ Of San Francisco?
Last July, the California Department of Finance (DOF) made its population projections for San Francisco through 2050: While California’s Asian Pacific American population rises, San Francisco’s APA population will drop. After rising for decades and reaching a peak of 31 percent, or 263,276, by the year 2020, the city’s APA population will start to decline. […]
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A&F Advertising With Obama
OBAMA ADVERTISES A&F: Presidential campaigns are usually adept at orchestrating their campaign messages. Yet Barack Obama unwittingly allowed three Indiana supporters to advertise Abercrombie & Fitch garb live on CNN and other national media outlets during his concession speech after losing the Pennsylvania primary to Hillary Clinton. The three white males
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Congressional Spending on Asian Americans
Waste is in the eyes of the fiscal watchdog. Citizens Against Government Waste’s 2008 Congressional Pig Book Summary (cagw.org) rips into 11,610 “pork barrel” projects worth $17.2 billion in the 2008-09 fiscal year. … Some prominent APA legislators topped the lists, including the two octogenarian Dans — Hawai‘i Sens. Daniel Inouye (ranked sixth among 100
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Pressing the Hot Button on Obama
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris — a rising political star — could face rougher seas over a $9.3 million hit after a Department of Justice audit alleging that her office misused a grant designated for prosecuting border-related crimes. Harris — who was prosecuting former Supervisor Ed
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Learning From The Lavender Bloodbath
ONCE AND FUTURE KING: The API Legislative Caucus Institute — chaired by Assemblyman Ted Lieu, run by consultant Pam Cheuh, and founded by AsianWeek columnist and APA political godmom Maeley Tom — will honor Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, with the 2008
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Next B.M.O.C. And Just Saying ‘Ngo’
Vietnamese homonyms — you got win-win with San Jose Councilwoman Madison Nguyen and Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen. … Now Steve Ngo, attorney for Minami Tamaki LLP, has tossed his name into the hat for San Francisco City College’s trustee board. Ngo has a shot at it with the likelihood that trustee Julio Ramos will […]
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Recalling My 25 Years With CADC
The Chinese American Democratic Club, celebrating a half century tonight at Empress of China, has been a cornerstone of 25 years of my political life and my writing career. … It’s where I met and was inspired by Harold Yee and Michael Chan, who granted me access in the 1980s to
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Race in the S.F. School District
Garcia: Race Debate Will Be ‘Uncomfortable’
New San Francisco Superintendent Carlos Garcia stirred up a firestorm over his use of the n-word in 2000 in Clark County, Nev. The community stopped short of demanding his firing, as Garcia apologized and assured the public that he -
Donkey Tales
A small slice of San Francisco’s Democrats will vote this June for 24 open seats in “Donkey Central”: the liberal-leaning San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee. Fifty-four unofficial candidates — including at least 10 APAs — are running. …
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jabba wockeez roCkS!!
chankstar iNc. on Jabbawockeez, Unmasked
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Unfortuantely, Asian "interest groups" have taken a cue from the Sharpton/Jackon clique. Everyone wants a grubby hand in the racial spoils trough.
Anh Tran on No on Proposition E
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Who cares what the census says? By that stupid logic someone from Vladivostok should also be considered for this award.
Anh Tran on Harvard Student Wins 1st Annual Outstanding Woman of the Year Award
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"White lords"? Oh jeez. You couldn't use more cilched liberal arts language if you tried. That being said, I agree they should have chosen an asian to play the asian character.
AnhTran on For Asian American Males, a Slap in the Face and a Kick in the Teeth
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"We need immigrants willing to do some of the low paying jobs in order to keep the inflation low. " Nonsense.
Anh Trsn on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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I agree with your comment. In most cases we are left alienated however, Asians are expected to perform well academically by the school system.
Angeli Tolentino Howarth on An Asian Texan History?: How now, cowboy?
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Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
Janet Reno on Choosing Sides in the Democratic Presidential Race
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Er... Hello? This is AMERICA!!! If whites want to live in Chinatown, why the hell not? If you want to live amongst the Chinese, take a one-way to Beijing from JFK.
Phoebe on Kumshui, Tsiwen and Confucius Plaza
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Regarding the CCSF expansion: All you have to do is look at who was being paid by the Hilton lobby group, and who was volunteered their time to mobilize and educate the community.
Dioscoro R. Recio on ‘Driven Out’ Of San Francisco?
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Huang Fong: You continue to one-up everyone else hereabouts. And I love it. However, forty-buck meals are now history in the starched-linen precincts of our finer-diner establishments, even as four-buck meals are barely within reach for the common working stiff.
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