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Feuding sinks quality-of-life court
The San Francisco Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner
Jun 13, 2008 11:42 AM (536 days ago)SAN FRANCISCO

Next time you are downtown and have an ugly encounter with aggressive street panhandlers, you can thank the seemingly endless feud between the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom. San Franciscans regularly cite panhandling and homelessness as The City’s No. 1 problem. Yet a proposed Tenderloin courtroom — based on a successful 20-year New York-Philadelphia model for reducing quality-of-life crimes such as disorderly conduct, drug use, panhandling and theft — was again deprived of startup funding Tuesday.

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