As reported in the SF Weekly today, the Board of Supervisors is considering using three online news websites for public notices, and paying for them. Fog City Journal, Beyondchron, and the Bay Guardian. What isn’t mentioned in the Matt Smith article, is that Fog City Journal and the Bay Guardian are not public financed, but Beyondchron.org is. In Beyondchrons case, they are already receiving money from the city for the entire website operation, to the tune of $13,000 in 2007. Beyondchron is actually part of the existing Tenderloin Housing Clinic contract with the city, so why would the taxpayers need to pay for public service ads, when the city of San Francisco is already paying for the entire website?
