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Gavin Newsom
launching new initiative with @HelloWallet to provide personalized
financial guidance to all San Franciscans. Only one out of five
American households are getting the guidance they need to reach their
financial goals and are losing over $100 billion a year on bad deals
and missteps.
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When you trace the roots of the record-busting foreclosure rate and the havoc that has wrought on the American economy over the last few years, San Francisco's mailboxes probably don't come to mind as a logical starting point. But they should.
Gavin Newsom talked about plan to save thousands of city jobs and services by offering 37.5 hour part time positions to most city employees in YouTube update.
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Gavin Newsom Launched a new initiative with President Obama's CIO, Vivek Kundra to save taxpayers money by opening up government to web developers. Ask your city to join the effort.
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As we have seen in the consumer marketplace, when companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook release APIs (Application Programming Interface), countless innovative applications are created that build on the original idea. In an effort to change the way government operates and tap into that same cr...
Gavin Newsom
films a YouTube update from the 33rd Project Homeless Connect (PHC). Last year alone PHC helped more than 10,300 poor
and homeless San Franciscans.
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Gavin Newsom Great to have Rachel Maddow in SF. Here's the video from last night's show if you missed it.
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Gavin Newsom In an effort to make it easier for other cities to learn about and implement creative solutions like SF's universal health care program, I am pleased to announce the launch of http://PolicySF.org, a one-stop destination for idea sharing and collaboration.
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Cities don't need to wait for Washington to solve our problems. They can come up with creative solutions, like we've done in San Francisco when we launched the country's first universal health care program.
Gavin Newsom Got a budget question. Ask live during UStream Town Hall @ 5PM tonight: http://bit.ly/9anEHD. #NewsomBudgetLive
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Mayor Newsom will host an Internet “budget town hall” from 5 – 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 24th to discuss San Francisco’s projected $522 million budget deficit for the 2010-11 fiscal year. Veteran City Hall journalists Barbara Taylor of KCBS and Rachel Gordon of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Gavin Newsom Ask a question about SF's budget. Hosting Town Hall Wed @ 5PM on UStream. RSVP: http://bit.ly/9anEHD #NewsomBudgetLive
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Mayor Newsom will host an Internet “budget town hall” from 5 – 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 24th to discuss San Francisco’s projected $522 million budget deficit for the 2010-11 fiscal year. Veteran City Hall journalists Barbara Taylor of KCBS and Rachel Gordon of the San Francisco Chronicle will m...
Gavin Newsom It's time for the GOP to stop misleading people and start telling the truth about the Federal Stimulus. In San Francisco thousands of people and their families (2,910 and counting to date) now have the dignity of work and a paycheck because of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.
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Repeating a lie over and over doesn't make it true. But if you listen to Republicans on the subject of job creation and the federal stimulus package, it's obvious they don't understand that or care.
Gavin Newsom Challenges the Republican Party to come out to San Francisco and meet thousands of San Franciscans employed through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act + answers tweets and facebook questions on YouTube: http://bit.ly/d2pkoG
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Gavin Newsom Ask a question. Will be answering them again on YouTube.
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Mayor Newsom highlights installation of the City's 175th bike rack with the SF Bike Coalition at Flour + Water in the Mission District. Also discusses Green Financing and answers tweets and facebook messages.
Gavin Newsom Congress needs to support an extension of the JobsNow (http://jobsnowsf.org/) program in the new federal jobs bill. Thousands of Californians who would otherwise join the unemployment rolls are now employed.
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This JobsNow program is exactly in line with the Obama Administration and Congressional leaders of both parties' priorities when it comes to incentivizing job creation. But our success locally in putting people back to work could come to a screeching halt - and throw thousands out of work again - wh...
Gavin Newsom Signed legislation for a $150 million green financing program to fuel the next wave of energy/water efficiency and renewable energy developments in San Francisco.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed legislation for a program that will let people take out loans from the city to pay for energy efficient home and business projects.
