City of San Francisco to cut Massachusetts ties because we're too restrictive on abortion

By adamg on Mon., 12/2/2019 - 1:20 pm

WBUR explains why San Francisco city employees will no longer be allowed to take work trips here - and the city will stop considering Massachusetts companies for contracts - next year.

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Cool. How many turds on the

By thomas
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 7:31pm

Cool. How many turds on the sidewalk did you count?
Also , were you visiting family /friends? Have you actually gotten the opinion of a working class person whoâ€™s lived in the bay pre and post tech yuppie invasion ?

What you do...

By lbb
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 9:44am

...while visiting your working-class relatives (who live "in the bay", not in San Francisco) is counting turds on sidewalks.

Got it.

Obligatory

By erik g
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 11:22am

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL2hWKxfHY[/youtube]

I was in SF last May for 3 weeks

By anon
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 12:08pm

It's a very dirty city. Much worse than Boston. Epic mentally ill homeless issue. Epic socioeconomic stratification. But is is geographically beautiful. Weather is generally mild all year 'round. It can actually get pretty cold even in summer.

Ummmmm

By Neal
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 10:44pm

You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

Headline typo

By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 6:35pm

You misspelled "San Francisco Government Establishes Grandstanding Moral Smokescreen to Distract from Inability to Solve Greater Problems"

A professionally performed abortion should be as readily available as chewing gum, and you can get those here. If that's not to the satisfaction of those in San Francisco government who procure services, then perhaps the boycott could have been registered quietly. This act does nothing to improve my regard for San Francisco.

I'm going to need New England

By anon
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 8:54pm

I'm going to need New England / San Francisco matchup matchup to settle this.

With my luck, it'll probably wind up being Buffalo and Oakland, or whatever city those teams out west play musical stadiums with.

I agree that this move by SF is clearly

By MC Slim JB
Mon, 12/02/2019 - 11:13pm

not the best use of political capital. American cities like SF and Boston have similar serious issues that need serious solutions. However you feel about it, abortion access is a red herring.

But calling those problems a function of progressive policies is delusional, counter-factual. Income inequality and the resultant dearth of affordable housing, the cutting of the social safety net for people with mental illness, the opioid crisis? You can thank Republican lawmakers, Republican presidents, and amoral, mostly Republican capitalists for all of those. That shit you're stepping in has the stink of the GOP wafting from it.

SF doth protest too much

By Nowy LibertÃ©
Tue, 12/03/2019 - 10:17am

If I was a member of that "august legislative body" ostensibly representing the citizens of San Francisco -- I would clean up my own surroundings before I started to try to moralize beyond my legal jurisdiction.

A once beautiful, well-mannered and honored city has descended so-far --- that it is gross a insult to a 3rd World Hellhole to equate the City By the Bay with one [chose your favorite]. Not all that long ago you could lose your heart there -- or be welcomed by cheering thousands when your ship returned from the war in the Pacific and sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Today tourists need to wear construction boots lest they be stabbed in the foot by a syringe left in a pile of debris -- right next to Fisherman's Wharf. Humans openly use the streets and doorways of buildings in the same manner as dogs -- except I doubt that any of the participants are consciously marking their territory -- accent on the word conscious.

Well -- soon we'll have a test -- the former Mayor is on the ballot -- as a sitting Governor for whom the Citizens of California have filed a Petition for Recall

If the Citizens of California do the right thing and consign the former Mayor and now Governor to the "Ash Bin of History" -- perhaps California and SF will begin to turn the corner.

As Winston said upon hearing of the victory at the Battle of el Alamein in a speech in Parliament on Nov 10, 1942

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Henceforth Hitler's Nazis will meet equally well armed, and perhaps better armed troops. Hence forth they will have to face in many theatres of war that superiority in the air which they have so often used without mercy against other, of which they boasted all round the world, and which they intended to use as an instrument for convincing all other peoples that all resistance to them was hopeless....

So youâ€™ve never been to San

By berkleealum
Wed, 12/04/2019 - 10:09am

So youâ€™ve never been to San Francisco, huh? Itâ€™s pretty great - you should visit.

I have

By bigredinmass
Wed, 12/04/2019 - 1:38pm

Was in SF last year after 2 decades. Beautiful city as always, but the homelessness seemed really out of control and distracting. Every block had one or more...every block. Even going across the Golden Gate to a viewing point, there was one muttering away in the bathroom. And these are the mentally disabled and/or drug addicted. Not normal people priced out of their homes. It was pretty depressing and I would never pay the RE prices to deal with that outside my home. You think Boston's homeless issues are bad - nothing compared to SF.

I wouldn't worry

By bigredinmass
Wed, 12/04/2019 - 1:40pm

This is the same city (SF) that has tried to ban male circumcision for all reasons except health. So if we were to meet their abortion criteria, they'll come up with something else wacky to impose their will on the rest of us.

who gives a fuck what people

By anon
Fri, 12/06/2019 - 6:38pm

who gives a fuck what people in California think?