It has long been evident that most Bay Area drivers will never lessen their usage of the increasingly crowded roads unless public transit becomes truly competitive with the convenience and costs of private vehicle travel. Unfortunately, the majority of ways to make a bus or rail commute as easy and cheap as driving to work would involve hugely expensive capital outlays far beyond the reach of hard-pressed contemporary transit funding.
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Something new is happening today as The Examiner invites readers to help uncover which members of Congress sponsored the 1,867 secret spending earmarks worth more than $500 million in the Labor Department and Health and Human Services appropriation bill now before Congress. These earmarks average more than $268,000 each. To our knowledge, The Examiner is the first daily newspaper to join with readers, citizen activists from across the political spectrum and bloggers in this manner.
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There’s a case for a consumer-oriented health care that promises to stabilize out-of-control costs. You do it by fostering greater individual choice and free-market competition. The case is made powerfully in a new Pacific Research Institute study, "What States Can Do to Reform Health Care: A Free Market Primer."
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It should be obvious, but to much of The City’s political class it painfully is not. Small businesses — defined as employing fewer than 100 people — keep vibrant in countless ways that larger corporations cannot. They even survive recessions better, according to a study presented to City Hall this week.
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When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a pact with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to share anti-global warming technologies and push various incentives to go green, few raised an eyebrow. Some of us did wonder about the constitutionality of individual states hooking up with foreign nations, a concern possibly allayed by the governor’s assurance this was "no treaty."
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By Gerardo Sandoval and Karen ChappleSan Francisco leaders are understandably excited about competing for the Olympics in 2016. In this dog-eat-dog world, a city would have to be crazy not to consider competing.But it’s important to question some common assumptions. The simple fact is that the Olympics do not generate the huge economic boost that backers claim. In the past 30 years, the majority of host cities spent millions of dollars that they never got back, and the anticipated multiplier effects almost never materialized.
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As a work of entertainment, Chris Paine’s "Who Killed the Electric Car?" is a pretty decent thriller. As a historical document, however, it is sorely lacking.Paine traces the history of General Motor’s EV1. Unlike Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary, which brought us distinguished historians as commentators (wasn’t Shelby Foote especially wonderful?), Paine relies mainly on Hollywood liberals whose stunning lack of understanding of engineering and economics becomes obvious the moment they open their mouths.
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Ten Asian and Middle Eastern legal immigrants have sued the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in federal District Court. They charge their citizenship applications have been stymied in bureaucratic paperwork limbo for years, without any end in sight.
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As a work of entertainment, Chris Paine’s "Who Killed the Electric Car?" is a pretty decent thriller. As a historical document, however, it is sorely lacking.Paine traces the history of General Motor’s EV1. Unlike Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary, which brought us distinguished historians as commentators (wasn’t Shelby Foote especially wonderful?), Paine relies mainly on Hollywood liberals whose stunning lack of understanding of engineering and economics becomes obvious the moment they open their mouths.
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By Peter FerraraSuppose you are in a car accident. You file a claim with your insurance company, but inexplicably the company refuses to pay. So you hire an attorney and sue the insurance company. But the Judge rules against you, on the grounds that your attorney is a professed Christian.Sounds nuts, but something similar to this happened recently in the increasingly bitter litigation war over the cross at the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego.
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