[SmithL]

Now, are there any questions about who California's overlords are?

[Ramonan]

Corrupt Aztlan-advocate, Democrat HACK!
No wonder Arnold's Initiatives are on the ballot. This is the type of Hispanic Tip O'Neill that controls the California legislature.

[sageb1]

And on that same page:

Pumping up the plaza: San Francisco spent a cool $1.5 million to spruce up United Nations Plaza in time for Mayor Gavin Newsom to host last week's big U.N. World Environment Day conference.

Department of Public Works officials tell us that the fix-up had been in the pipeline for the past five years, but that once San Francisco landed the celebration, the sprucing was put on the fast track.

Crews worked seven days a week to gussy up the broad brick plaza between Market Street and Civic Center, an area that over the years has been a magnet for drunks, drug dealers and panhandlers.

Workers put down 10,000 new bricks, rolled down patches of sod, power- cleaned light posts, sand-blasted the concrete fountain, polished the inlaid brass lettering and strung the flags of 191 U.N. nations across the plaza.

Among the expenses:

-- $84,257 for 16 globe-shaped lights -- plus two spares, in case any break.

-- $23,108 for a new pair of 40-foot flagpoles.

-- $23,491 for nine new light fixtures.

-- $22,000 for a 7-foot-wide granite plaque commemorating World Environment Day and the 60th anniversary of the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco.

And $500 for the small bronze plaque -- in braille -- that describes the bigger granite plaque.

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Crews worked seven days a week to gussy up the broad brick plaza between Market Street and Civic Center, an area that over the years has been a magnet for drunks, drug dealers and panhandlers.

This pretty well describes the entire city of San Francisco.