Monday’s Superior Court ruling that a petition by foes of high-density redevelopment at the Bay Meadows racetrack was 56 signatures short of qualifying for the November ballot begins the opposition’s endgame. With the deadline past for starting a new petition, all that opponents can do now is delay the project a while longer by appealing Judge Mark Forcum’s decision.
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All right, we love what John Muir loved, as anyone with any aesthetic sense and appreciation for nature would. Muir loved the Hetch Hetchy Valley, even to the lengths of idolatry, and when in 1906 thirsty San Franciscans asked the federal government to dam it, the great naturalist waged a relentless crusade against what would become The City’s principal water supply.Muir, obviously, lost in 1923 when the congressionally authorized
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For supporters of stem cell research, this week brought mixed tidings. The good news: Regents voted unanimously to let University of California President Robert Dynes spread millions of taxpayers’ dollars over campus facilities up and down the state. The move will spur the scientific research approved last year by voters.
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So the design for the 49ers’ new Candlestick Point venue is officially unveiled, and it’s a honey. Panoramas of the Bay and San Francisco’s unmatched cityscape. Up-close player views for every fan, no matter the seat number.Touchdown!If an architectural vision can align the stars, then the 49ers’ fortunes are assured. This site can command Super Bowl after Super Bowl, not to mention the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
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The San Francisco-Peninsula axis has posted another significant advance in its bid to become unchallengeable as the world’s leading center for bio-technology research and production. The latest win is that PDL BioPharma is moving its corporate headquarters from the East Bay into 450,000 square feet at two high-rise towers in Redwood City and will bring at least 500 new employees to San Mateo County in mid-2007.
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Ina rare display of California bipartisanship, two ex-governors — Republican Pete Wilson and Democrat Gray Davis — sent out a letter last week urging lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to act stronger in support of higher academic standards, exit testing and especially second-language English learning in the public schools.
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It would seem self-evident that if one-third of the nonviolent first-and-second-time drug offenders diverted into state-mandated rehabilitation programs since 2001 never even bother showing up for treatment — and three out of four never complete their rehab — something is very wrong and needs to be fixed.
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In a city where housing prices are out of the reach of many San Franciscans, "affordable housing" is a phrase constantly heard in public-policy debates. That was the case this week at City Hall, as two new pieces of legislation are moving forward that would change the laws regarding development of housing in San Francisco.
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A proposal to levy a new tax on The City’s largest businesses appears likely to be shelved, according to the measure’s sponsor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin. But the apparent turnaround is less a result of a sudden case of sympathy for The City’s business community, and more an example that even the Board of Supervisors knows when it is going too far.
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PRO: State horse racing industry must be preservedWith the precipitous decline of horse racing in California, thousands of jobs related to the racing, breeding and care of horses have been disappearing from our state, undermining California’s economy and our important agricultural traditions. In just six years, the number of licensed horse owners in California has decreased by more than 24 percent.
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