Is This A Fair Way To Treat The Homeless?

Thursday, May 3, 2012 Iconic Music Venue Deploys Awful Noise In War Against Nearby Homeless Camp SAN FRANCISCO -- Every evening, a makeshift encampment springs up in front of San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Dozens of chronically homeless people camp nightly on the City Hall-adjacent sidewalk. And it's become a problem for venue's operator, Another Planet Entertainment. Another Planet's response has been to blast very loud, very unpleasant noise--sirens, chainsaws, jackhammers, etc.--on loudspeakers nonstop between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. as a way to break up the nightly gathering. PELOSI PUSHES FOR POT LOVE RULES! Eighties Music Legend Marries At Mill Valley Restaurant San Francisco Lab Researcher Dies From Rare Bacteria Strain PHOTOS: Stern Grove Festival 2012 Lineup Revealed National Sailing Panel To Investigate Fatal Yacht Accident In The Bay BLOG POSTS Joseph A. Palermo: Protesting Students, Striking Faculty As the student loan debt in the United States surpasses $1 trillion for the first time in the nation's history, thirteen courageous students from six California State University campuses will be engaging in civil disobedience in the form of a hunger strike until university leaders agree to freeze tuition. Peter Scheer: Romney's Wrong: States Are More Responsive to Special Interests Than Voters Federalist conservatives love shifting power from the federal government to states because they believe that the closer government is to its citizens, the more responsive it is to those citizens. They could not be more wrong. George Heymont: The Pirates of Penzance Sung in the Key of Aaaargh! Over the years, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas have been subjected to all kinds of reinterpretation. Carey Perloff: The Loss of the Old Why do we assume classics are impenetrable and obsolete? Why do we imagine that an ecology that privileges "emerging artists" while all but abandoning mature ones, let alone historical ones, will have resonance in the long run? Eric Steenstra: The Obama Administration Is Wrong to Deny American Farmers a Profitable Crop Despite growing consumer demand for these eco-friendly and healthy products, the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation in the world that allows the importation and sale of hemp raw materials and finished goods, but bans its farmers from growing the crop.

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