By:
Ed Lee
03/09/12 3:58 PM
You may soon be asked to sign an innocuous-sounding petition urging The City to develop “a sustainable water supply.” A laudable goal and one that San Francisco voters and city leaders have already committed to and are spending billions of dollars to achieve.But don’t be fooled. Camouflaged in the petition’s language is the real goal of this measure: to drain the Bay Area’s largest and most important source of drinking water and clean energy — the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
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By:
Ed Harrington
03/05/12 7:05 PM
San Francisco and the 2.6 million Bay Area customers of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System have a sustainable water system with storage reservoirs in place to maintain our water supply. We have worked hard to address the constant threats of drought, climate change, and earthquakes to our water.
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By:
Dave Mihalic
03/05/12 7:02 PM
As superintendent of Yosemite National Park from 1999 to 2003, I regretted that Congress had long ago allowed San Francisco to clear-cut and flood the spectacular Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite for use as a water storage tank. Such a proposal would be firmly rejected today.
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By:
John Gressman
03/05/12 5:00 AM
Just as we are poised to deliver on the promise of providing health care for millions of Californians, Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget would cut funding to neighborhood-based, community-governed health centers. Our centers are the only cost-effective alternative to costly, overcrowded emergency rooms.
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By:
Ed Lee
02/23/12 12:21 AM
I came into office determined to create jobs and grow San Francisco’s economy by harnessing the creative talent and energy of the people here. That’s why a big part of my economic development agenda is focused on getting tech companies to start here, stay here and grow here, so they can innovate here in San Francisco.
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By:
Jerry Deal
02/17/12 1:08 PM
It is common for House Republicans to invoke President Ronald Reagan’s legacy and compare their own political ideals with the great communicator’s.
Now, many of those same Republicans are threatening to dismantle one of Reagan’s greatest and most enduring accomplishments.
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By:
Ed Lee, Jean Quan and Chuck Reed
02/14/12 7:32 PM
California cities will lose vital funding for mass transit, bike and pedestrian improvements, and 21st-century road planning if the House passes the transportation bill in its current form. Critical federal funds would be redirected with a short-sighted emphasis on roads and bridges alone.
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Gov. Jerry Brown is scaling back the state’s highly controversial bullet train project to keep it alive.
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The big news in Central California’s Stanislaus County these days is that a big Internet retailer — almost certainly Amazon — will establish a huge distribution center in Patterson that would employ at least 1,500 workers.
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Whenever someone suggests that California’s public employee pension systems need reform, civil service unions react dismissively, often with attacks on the credentials or even the morals of critics.When, for example, a Public Policy Institute of California poll found strong support — even among public workers themselves — for Gov. Jerry Brown’s middle-of-the-road pension reform plan, the union-backed Californians for Retirement Security reacted thusly:
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