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The standoff between San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and embattled Supervisor Ed Jew shot up another notch this weekend with the mayor asking the city attorney to draw up charges that could lead to Jew's forced removal if he does not resign. According to sources close to the case, the paperwork is being drawn up today and will likely be ready sometime this week."It's not a position I want to be in," Newsom said late Saturday after Jew didn't return repeated phone calls. "But I'm compelled to move because this is just the type of situation that the City Charter...

Occupy Wall Street buys $15 million of Americans' medical debt Tue, Nov 12 2013By Elizabeth Dilts(Reuters) - An Occupy Wall Street spin-off group has bought up $14.7 million worth of Americans' personal medical debt and forgiven it over the last year as part of its Rolling Jubilee project, the group announced Monday.The Rolling Jubilee project, organized by Occupy Wall Street's Strike Debt group, has so far spent $400,000 to buy the debt, in the process relieving 2,693 people of the money they owed for medical services Occupy thinks should be free."Think of it as a bailout of the 99 percent...

Under any circumstances, the party pummeling of Yale a cappella singers was a headline-grabber. But when they were kicked and slugged after singing the national anthem at a get-together in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hometown, the tale was destined to go national -- especially with the Yale network making sure the story didn't die and lighting a firecracker under the San Francisco Police Department. ...... And there are the reports that words like "homo" flew just before the fists did that night. From the moment 18-year-old Yale freshman Sharyar Aziz Jr. -- his jaw broken in two places -- flew...