At first glance, it might seem a bit Scrooge-like to be congratulating Gov. Schwarzenegger for vetoing a last-minute bill that would have doubled workers’ compensation payments for permanent disability injuries such as losing a leg. But the governor did the right thing for California’s strongly recovering economy by holding the line on a key factor of workers’ compensation reform.
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Nancy Pelosi is a compelling national figure, destined even — if November’s political stars align in her favor — to be an historic figure. San Francisco’s very own member of Congress, if enough Democrats win seats in its chamber, could become the first female speaker of the House of Representatives, second in line to become president.
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If the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission was following that old-folk advice about training a mule — "First you hit it over the head with a 2-by-4 to get its attention" — then its threat to sue Daly City over delays in fixing the recurrent city line flooding probably succeeded.So now it is time for both city governments to meet and hammer out a realistic and practical program to double the drainage capacity of the Vista Grande basin. Daly City stormwater overflows at the San Francisco city line during particularly heavy winter rains every few years.
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We wonder if the young Thomas Alva Edison, called "addled" by his first despairing teacher, would have been arrested under San Francisco’s newest crackdown on truancy. It’s not an entirely fanciful question.
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Of course it’s true that, even when a district attorney starts winning more convictions, we still don’t have an exact index to that elusive goal called a safe city. But Kamala Harris, San Francisco’s DA, deserves appreciation for raising the felony conviction rate nearly 15 percent since winning office two years ago.
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Facing its 30th birthday with a midlife crisis of declining ridership, yearly multimillion-dollar deficits and fare increases, the San Mateo County Transit District finally is assembling a dramatic plan to reinvent its bus service for a changing market.
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Pope Benedict XVI made an ill choice of illustrative anecdotes in a lecture at Germany’s University of Regensburg, and should have known better, but he did not thereby insult Islam. That deed was rather accomplished by those relatively small numbers of Muslims reacting to his words with incomprehension and thuggish violence.
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The David-versus-Goliath nature of the race for Jackie Speier's state Senate seat is depicted in the numbers: $99,102.19 against $51.04.Those are the current fundraising amount totals for Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/Daly City, and Republican nominee and marketing director Michael Skipakevich, the two major party candidates vying to take over Speier's District 8 seat.Skipakevich — pronounced skip-ah-KAY-vich — is campaigning in a heavily Democratic district. He faces an additional barrier, however: He is 18 years old.
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It is hardly reassuring to discover that the nonpartisan state auditor has blasted California’s stewardship of $1.3 billion in federal homeland security funds as largely a mess.In fact, state government has been so lackadaisical about disbursing federal funds to local emergency responders that California is in danger of losing $239 million at the end of the year. In some years, local emergency funds were not sent out until 11 months had passed, forcing numerous California cities into multimillion-dollar cash crunches.
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Page five of Wednesday’s Examiner consisted of several wildly contrasting business news stories. On one hand, The City’s economy is about to suffer an approximately $20 million loss next year as one-fourth of the Port of San Francisco’s cruise ship port of calls are being eliminated by Princess Cruises, the port’s biggest client, and Celebrity Cruises.
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