Ten working days after the new 27-mile Jefferson Martin Transmission Line began powering as much as 400 megawatts throughout the Peninsula and into San Francisco, the polluting 77-year-old Hunters Point Power Plant was shut down permanently on May 15.
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If you’ve been to the waterfront in the last couple of weeks, you may have noticed a marked increase in happy, suntanned tourists strolling the Embarcadero, visiting local shops and frequenting area restaurants. There’s a good reason for that. Right now, The City is at the very peak of a historic boom in cruise ship business, with more than 50,000 passengers expected to dock here in the 15-day period ending Tuesday.
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Bay Area rush-hour motorists sitting in traffic jams aren’t just missing dinner with friends and family, or feeling their frustration level advance to Code Red. They are also paying an annual $1,200 in lost time and fuel.That’s the conclusion of the federal Department of Transportation, which is taking steps toward addressing the national gridlock that is decreasingour quality of life and slowly choking our economy.
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With homicide rates in San Francisco at their highest levels in more than a decade, residents in many of The City’s most violence-plagued neighborhoods are pleading with city officials to increase efforts to stop the bloodshed. A new emphasis on security cameras at high-crime street corners could serve as a valuable tool in fighting the troubling wave of violence that has taken scores of young lives in recent months.
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The dangers threatening the long-term prosperity of the Bay Area’s revived economy are easy enough to identify. But overcoming them would require a forceful exercise of political willpower.
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The complex, multiyear $5.7 billion settlement of the school financing dispute involving the governor and the state teachers’ lobby, announced Wednesday by the Schwarzenegger administration, drastically changes the playing field for California politics and education.
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The chief executive of the California power grid went to Washington D.C. on Wednesday to tell the national industrial media that the state would have enough power to meet this summer’s peak demands. This is good news in itself, especially for those of us who survived the great California electrical shortages of 2001, when the state apparently could not access enough power to meet a steadily growing wattage demand.
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In theory, it sounds great: Approach the toll plaza at any one of the eight Bay Area bridges and zip by the long lines of motorists who are fumbling in their pocketbooks or under their floormats for singles and spare change. Barely slow down as you drive through the toll booth, as special antennae debit your prepaid account via the transponder mounted on your windshield.
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Since coming into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has resisted calls to raise taxes, instead urging the Legislature and California residents to be patient and allow his pro-economic growth approach to pay dividends.It has started to, in a big way. Thanks to a surging economy — and a record April for tax collections by the state government — more than $5 billion in unexpected revenue has flowed to the state.
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The decision by an Alameda County judge on Monday to tentatively halt the exit exam for California high school students was a surprise twist in what has been a contentious, emotional debate.It also reminded us of just how low our standards and expectations have fallen when it comes to our public schools.
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