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San Francisco, CA 94105

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

Redevelopment agencies don’t work

02/01/12 7:06 PM
The Examiner’s editorial extolling redevelopment agencies (“Redevelopment is still important without agency,” Jan. 22) minimizes the harm they cause to taxpayers and property owners. Read More

People living out of vehicles aren’t slobs

02/01/12 5:00 AM
I would like to take issue with the accusation that mobile dwellers are responsible for leaving trash in whatever neighborhood they park in.This is simply not true. I have been a mobile dweller for five years. I and all the other mobile dwellers I know strive to maintain as low a profile as possible. This is common sense. Creating big piles of garbage in whatever neighborhood one parks in is not part of maintaining a low profile. Read More

Shell deal amounts to a total shell game

01/29/12 10:47 PM
Ed Lee was onto something when he raised the question about the costs and risks of community choice aggregation. SPUR has been reserving judgment about CleanPowerSF, but as the contract details started coming out it’s not looking promising. Read More

Save care facility for Burlingame’s needy

01/29/12 5:00 AM
San Mateo County would be making a huge mistake if it closed Burlingame Long-Term Care Facility. We cannot afford to lose the 281 licensed MediCal beds there. Our local nursing homes are running at 91 percent capacity. Closure would mean placing county residents outside the county. Read More

High-speed rail will never recover costs

01/26/12 9:00 PM
The Sunday op-ed by Steve Falk, CEO of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, played fast and loose with his numbers and projections about why high-speed rail would allegedly be good for California. The truth is that there won’t be enough riders to even service the exploding costs to build and run the high-speed trains. Read More

Officials must solidify high-speed rail plan

01/25/12 10:00 PM
The Sunday San Francisco Examiner op-ed promoting California’s high-speed rail project claimed that the voters approved the project and a solid plan was put forth. These statements are not quite accurate. The plan that the voters approved was far different than what is on the table today. Read More

It’s time to put Newt in the White House

01/24/12 9:30 PM
I agree with the Thursday letter that explained why Newt Gingrich is the only electable Republican presidential candidate. I have carefully followed Newt’s career since the Reagan years and I’m convinced he is the man for president in these trying, dangerous times. Read More

Support falling short for high-speed rail

01/23/12 10:01 PM
Earlier this month, California’s non-partisan CPA Peer Review Committee issued a scathing report stating that no new loans/bonds should be issued for high-speed rail. They said the plan lacked “credible sources of adequate funding … appropriate management” and is a “fundamentally flawed program” carrying “an immense financial risk” to California’s budget. Read More
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