Well said Niles

There’s also the urine running down Market from the homeless encampment of anarchists.

We may agree, however, that, in this economy, if we can get by with the city hall arrangement that we have, we shouldn’t be dropping money into a new city hall.

As far as FCN is concerned, they weren’t doing anything different from what the Occupy Wall Streeters are doing now – peaceably assembling for the redress of grievances, and bringing attention to how government has ceased to operate in best interests of the governed. The big difference is scale; local vs national. I wish them both good luck – it ain’t easy organizing a group when you have an honest interest in recognizing and addressing all of the diverse interests of the members.

Who gives a F**k really? They (we) HAD a City Hall.
A city hall that was Badass. Freaky, interesting, scary, ugly, monumental, ORIGINAL.

Fault line my ass. That thing wasn’t coming down for nothing, until some pinheaded “city leaders” decided they there was some quick money made by demolishing it- quickly- before it became old enough to require public consideration of the rarity of buildings architectural representative style and historical importance.

Tell he city council to hold their meetings in the Senior Center and put Dominic Dutra in charge of setting up the folding chairs before the meeting and putting them away after.