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Reckless taxi drivers are hurting The City

03/02/12 4:20 PM
I have witnessed several pedestrians and bicyclists coming close to being run over by San Francisco taxi drivers, and I find it alarming. Some of these taxi drivers run red lights and make illegal turns without regard for the lives of people around them, although the statistics of fatalities might not paint a clear picture of how dangerous some of these taxi drivers are. Read More

Lin is a role model for all smart athletes

02/21/12 5:00 AM
Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks was a topic of conversation in our home this week. It all started last year, when my son Minh Jeffrey told me about this new player in the NBA, and told me to watch for great things to come from Lin. What a prediction he made back then! Read More

Jeremy Lin is a role model for all smart athletes

02/21/12 5:00 AM
Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks was a topic of conversation in our home this week. It all started last year, when my son Minh Jeffrey told me about this new player in the NBA, and told me to watch for great things to come from Lin. What a prediction he made back then! Read More

More support for Warm Planet Bikes

02/19/12 5:00 AM
There is a raging debate going on surrounding bikes, Caltrain and the future of commuting in the Bay Area. There’s nothing worse than having to ride home without a bicycle seat. You can’t leave your bike locked out in the open at Fourth and King streets or 22nd Street and expect it to be in one piece when you return. Read More

Warm Planet Bikes good for commuters

02/17/12 1:15 PM
I commute on Caltrain from San Francisco to Palo Alto five days a week, all year long. Integral to my commute is the bike parking service and bike shop business offered by Warm Planet Bikes. The fact the bike parking is staffed means peace of mind that my bike is in good hands while I’m at work. Read More

Bag fees will not change habits in SF

02/12/12 11:52 PM
People have complained about City Hall nickel-and-diming us for such things as parking fees, tickets, etc., but that was always just an expression. Now City Hall has done it literally with the new shopping bag fee of a dime! Read More

Desalination is not the best solution

02/08/12 7:36 PM
The proposed use of desalination to solve the problem of providing water to the Saltworks development poses even more concerns. A 2003 Redwood City government white paper enumerates significant disadvantages of building a desalination plant in Redwood City, chief among them high operating costs that will remain long after the developer leaves town with huge profits. Read More

Caltrain should help keep bike shop open

02/07/12 7:42 PM
For more than 15 years, I’ve been commuting from San Francisco to Menlo Park using a combination of Caltrain and bicycle, and I’ve seen it all. I originally brought my bicycle on the newly added bicycle cars, but switched to locking my bike outside the 22nd Street station to avoid the stress resulting from getting “bumped” on my return home. As bike thefts increased there, I tried to find a locker box at Fourth and King streets, but they were too difficult to attain. Read More

The City must transform underused spaces

02/05/12 7:59 PM
Even before the demise of the Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco has long been knee-deep in an affordable housing crisis.We applaud Mayor Ed Lee’s leadership in creating an affordable housing fund, but it doesn’t go far enough. The biggest barrier in San Francisco is the high cost of land, and so much could be done by creatively redeveloping a number of underutilized public lands scattered throughout town. Read More

San Francisco should expect fallout from Japan

02/02/12 7:42 PM
The two atomic bombs America dropped on Japan at the end of World War II, ushering in the Atomic Age as it devastated people in two cities, has come back to America in 2011 in the form of radioactive rain from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Plans in Japan are to begin a cleanup of the radioactive contamination this spring, with a goal of cutting the radiation level in half within two years. Read More
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