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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 examiner.com SF LOCAL TODAY'S NEWSMAKERS EARL SANDERS CRAIG NEWMARK is vsr, jy. ZACHARY RUNNING WOLF The tree-sitter said Monday night that he and other protesters don't plan to leave their perches near UC Berkeley's football stadium despite a judge's ruling against them. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard Keller ruled earlier Monday that UC Berkeley can remove all tree-sitters from the trees next to the stadium, even if the protesters aren't identified by name. Keller's ruling expands on a preliminary injunction he issued on Oct. 1.

The Craigslist founder commented on the murder of Katherine Olson, 24, who answered a Craigslist ad for a nanny last week in Minnesota and was found dead shortly afterward in the trunk of her car. Authorities said a 19-year-old man was in custody and would be charged with the crime today. "I can't recall a single case like it," Newmark told a Minnesota news station. "This is the worst that I can recall." The former San Francisco police chief's lawsuit against The City and its former district attorney has reached the end of the road. The U.S.

Supreme Court declined to revive Sanders' federal civil rights lawsuit. Sanders sued after he was charged, then quickly cleared, of obstructing the investigation of a fight involving off-duty officers. Lower courts dismissed the lawsuit, saying the district attorney had immunity. Newmark City slides into viewp Sanders Burning Man fire, take two, at S.F. church? By Tamara Barak Aparton Examiner Staff Writer When San Francisco performance artist Paul Addis was arrested two months ago for prematurely setting Burning Man's iconic wooden structure ablaze, some mused that Addis may have been trying to simply shake things up at the 21-year-old festival of radical self-expression.

But as Addis, 35, remains behind bars in San Francisco after being nabbed Sunday night for the alleged attempted arson of The City's historic Grace Cathedral, investigators, "burners" and churchgoers were hard-pressed to come up with a possible motive. Addis 1 Running Wolf Don Nelson After a few months of retooling following the Warriors' unexpected playoff run, the coach gets hack to the business of winning games with tonight 's season opener against the Utah Jazz at Oracle Arena. He will do so with a group of players that is even younger than it was last season, but with a core buoyed by the stunning postseason upset of the Dallas Mavericks. What are your expectations for this season? I'm a little confused right now. I wish I could tell you we were gonna be good, but I can't.

Can you take the next step and become an elite-level team? I don't know that we'll do it. I just don't know. I don't know if we're good enough. Why? It's a little of everything. We just can't assume that we're going to pick up the magic we had last year.

You penciled first-round pick Marco Belinelli into the starting lineup before camp, but now he is out What happened? The assets he had, we totally destroyed 'em. He's working on a lot of things. That's OK. He's going to be a really good piayer. I think I evaluated him too highly, just like any other rookie.

He's 22 years old and with great talent. What surprised you about going 5-2 in the preseason? The fact that we were able to win more games, although I don't know how we did it. We've had a great camp. I don't think we're playing as well during the game as we are in practice. I don know what that says.

I'm a little confused right now over how good our team is, where we are. Slew Drumwright State of the Newsom's fourth annual speech touches mostly on perceived successes By Bonnie Eslinger Examiner Staff Writer Mayor Gavin Newsom channeled his inner Al Gore on Monday during his annual State of The City speech, presenting a multitude of facts via PowerPoint to support his belief that "The City is better off now than it was four years ago." During the 80-minute speech, Newsom clicked his way through a dizzying 120 slides, highlighting everything from the signs of economic progress in San Francisco to the number of public art pieces 33 on The City's horizon. In the past, Newsom has given the annual address from behind a podium, with no visual aids. This year, he called his new format "a little bit unorthodox." The PowerPoint presentation gained worldwide recognition when Al Gore was shown throughout his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," using the computer-generated slide program to outline information about global warming. More than 300 invited guests attended the speech, including Newsom's senior staff, department heads, school board members, several city supervisors, and state and local elected officials including Assemblymember Mark Lena, and state Sen.

Carole Migden. In his speech, the mayor highlighted how The City has rebounded in the years that followed the dot-com bust and the Sept. 11, 204)1, terrorist attacks. Charts were presented showing increases in capital funding and housing development. Other topics touched on as slides whizzed by at a rale of about two per minute included hnmclessness, violence-prevention efforts and The City's investment in public education.

Mayor Gavin Newsom's speech Monday included 120 PowerPoint Slides. Cindy ChewThe Examiner Aft er the speech which ended with a slide showing a gay couple getting married Newsom played along with the Gore comparison, saying that "for some of my critics, some of these stats are certainly inconvenient truths." Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin gave the speech mixed reviews, noting that while much of Newsom's information was accurate, some was not, some lacked context, and some less favorable information was conveniently omitted. "Obviously, when you get to control the narrative, you speak to those issues where there have been successes," Peskin said. No mention was made of Newsom's failed prom- ise to bring The City five titywide Wi-Fi, for example. When Newsom boasted that San Francisco is investing as much in its public-housing rebuilding program as the federal government, his comparison was not apples to apples.

When touting San Francisco's expansion of aftcrsehool programs, he didn't mention that a new state law provided a lai-ge portion of the new funding. And when promoting The City's new universal healt care program, no ment ion was made that SuervisorToin Ammiano initiated the program. bcslingcrn vxtimimr.com Odds: Newsom years Among San Francisco statistics touted by Mayor Gavin Newsom af his Sfafe of The City speech Monday: Unemployment rate: Down from 6.7 in 2003 to 4.2 in 2006 Hotel occupancy rate: Up from 68.1 in 2003 to 76.4 in 2006 SF0 passengers: Up from 29 million passengers in 2003 to 34 million in 2006 Retail sales growth: Up from $99 billion in 2003 to $11.9 billion in 2006 Muni's on-time performance: Up from 65.5 in FY 2001-02 to 71.9 in FY 2006-07 Evictions: Down from 2732 in FY 98-99 to 1.475 in FY 2006-07 Homeless people housed: Up from 1.736 in FY 20C4 05 4,392 in FY 2007 08 Serious crine: 10 percent reduction overall from 1 2003 to 20CZ including rape, apgra.ated assault, larcenytheft, burglary, auto theft and arson examiner torn Find rented slows onto City Hall Nfwiom 2,000 1 Grace Cathedral spokesperson Brent Andrew said members of the Episcopal congregation had no idea why a man with no known associat ion to the church would try to attack it, but view it as a bizarre and isolated incident. "I think what people have interpreted from the news that's been released is that this was one disturbed individual who didn't pose any serious threat to the cathedral," he said. San Francisco police arrested Addis about 10:40 p.m.

Sunday on the cathedral steps. Someone had tipped off police, saying that Addis planned to burn down the church, San Francisco police Sgt. Steve Mannina said. Police drove to the cathedral and found him wearing an ammunition belt with small explosives, Mannina said. Addis remained in jail Monday afternixm in lieu of bail, San Francisco Sheriffs Department sj xikespcrson Susan Fahey said.

He is facing five felonies attempted arson, possession of a device of arson, possession of a destructive device, arson of a church and violation of a court order, she said. He is also facing one misdemeanor charge of altering a firearm. While Burning Man organizers declined to make a formal statement, festival spokesperson Josh Camire acknowledged that, the Burning Man community was abuzz after Addis' latest trouble. "It's pretty sad and it's obviously aery for help" said. Iburuk a rxamiwrjcom SAN FRANCISCO'S NEXT MAYOR? Each day until niters go fo the polls to 6.

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