Ernie first posted this article as a comment last night, but since I’ve been getting pinged about it all day, I decided to bring further attention to it.
According to SFGate.com:
A Marin County Sheriff’s Department search and rescue team found the body of a woman at 1:38 p.m. in Slide Gulch Ravine, sheriff’s Lt. Doug Pittman said.
The body was “concealed by trees and shrubbery” about 30 or 40 yards from a trail, Pittman said.
“We are characterizing it a suspicious death,” he said.
It’s too early to know for sure that it’s Veronica Ruiz, though that’s the most popular assumption. There’s a lot of speculation about how and why, but all I can say is: Part of me hopes that this nightmare is over now and the family can find closure, and part of me hopes they’re going to find her in Southern California somewhere, alive and well.
I was talking to a friend about this last night, who happened to be hiking in the same general area a week ago. She and a friend had assumed that the trails were so easily marked that it would be impossible to get lost. So they marched on ahead of everyone else—and started along what seemed to be a trail. Only it was a dry ravine. They got a little freaked when the “trail” got so steep that they had to skid down on their butts. Another friend, an experienced hiker, fortunately realized that they had veered off course and found them.
“I had no idea how easy it is to get lost around here,” she related. “Even one wrong turn can send you off to another part of the mountain.”
Let’s hope a good turn is coming for the Ruiz family and that this ordeal will end soon.
This story on the 
Okay, so I have been doing a lot of postings this weekend… but this, I had to post…. On Tuesday, the 
“San Francisco Supervisor Carmen Chu was sworn in late Friday to replace her embattled predecessor Ed Jew, not long after her name had been scratched off her City Hall office door because she could not decide whether she actually wanted the job…After multiple meetings with the mayor, Chu ultimately decided to take the job, although it remains unclear whether she intends to run for the office in the Nov. 4 election or whether she essentially is serving a caretaker role and buying Newsom some time to find a willing recruit to run for the post. Chu, a 29-year-old political novice who has said she never considered running for office before she was named interim supervisor, did not return calls for comment Friday…Chu, a daughter of Chinese immigrants, speaks fluent Cantonese and was born and raised in Los Angeles. She moved to San Francisco in 2004 to take a job in Newsom’s administration as a budget analyst. She also worked as an intern in the Board of Supervisors’ Office of the Legislative Analyst while earning her master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.”
Holy crap! According to 
“Aiming to increase their collective political clout and economic opportunities, Asian American business owners representing tens of thousands of mostly immigrant entrepreneurs in Southern California launched a collective chamber of commerce Tuesday. In a signing ceremony at a Koreatown hotel in Los Angeles, representatives from Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai chambers of commerce in Southern California established the Asian American Chamber Assn…Representatives said the new chamber would stay away from international politics but seek to maximize its voice in local politics. Chang Y. Lee, president of the Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, said the group would work, for instance, to ensure that its communities got a fair share of economic opportunities — including public development dollars. “As immigrants, we’re afraid at times to speak out,” Lee said. “But if we speak out, it will benefit our local businesses and residents. The chamber will be an organization that people will lend their ears to.”
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