In reading up on this scandal I revisited the scandal of the most progressive supes voting not to remove Sheriff Mirikami after his domestic abuse case and my god this paragraph sfchronicle.com/news/article/F…
A great thing about growing up inn DC in the 80s was it was such a mix of Go-Go and New Wave and Punk, and of course pop and the gods of MTV. Maybe that was the 80s everywhere. Well, not the Go-Go.
1/ Hey, something cool we're doing. @DavidCornDC wanted to try his hand at a newsletter. Rather than decamp to Substack, we decided to build a product ourselves. Why? Well...
2/ First, having a VC-funded entity skim talent from news orgs may be good for that talent (with good deals) for a time (or forever for the lucky few) but it's not great for the news ecosystem. And limits people to work they can do w/o larger teams, lawyers, fact-checkers...
3/ And those of us who've watched dozens of VC-funded plays for media unicorns, well...it doesn't always work out, shall we say.
Remember pivot to video? Remember all the Facebook broken promises? The Google CMS?
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2/ I’m incredibly proud of the work we did in the past 15 months. Here's a thread, and a report, on some of the most impactful work we've done in the last year:
“Ginsburg said Thursday that Peskin’s alleged bullying and problem with alcohol has been an open secret at City Hall since 2000. “ sfchronicle.com/local-politics…
Several city officials say (not all of them named) that Peskin has been abusively drunk on the job...for decades.
Swear there is more weirdness, corruption, and dysfunction here, pound for pound, than other cities I’ve lived in (NYC) and also covered (DC).
"The coins amounted to $800, which the mother and her 18-year-old daughter, Avery Sanford, were forced to pick up by hand with help from several friends in the neighborhood. They have since donated the money to a domestic abuse center in Richmond" ajc.com/news/man-dumps…
“My mom came out and was like, ‘What are you dumping in my yard?’ " said Sanford.
“It’s your last child support payment!” the man said.
Since Al Laffer is in the news for being his 🙄self, I feel obligated to tell you of the time that my Dad gave me the charades clue "Laffer Curve" to act out.
I was 10.
"Everybody knows what this is," he insisted.
Journalists, man.
That same game that he also stuck me to act out "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" which is an expression from the 1920s penchant for horrific brain surgery to address mental illness if you'd like to inflict this clue on your own family.