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SFMTA working hard to address big challenges

By: Ed Reiskin 12/08/11 11:33 PM
I want to thank The San Francisco Examiner editorial page for the consistent attention it’s paying to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Read More

Time to admit failure of ranked-choice voting

By: Marc Intermaggio 12/07/11 10:00 PM
Ranked-choice voting is rank. This exotic electoral experiment utterly failed to fulfill the most fundamental purpose of a democracy — majority rule. The effort to prevent costly runoffs produced the unintended consequence of disenfranchising tens of thousands of local voters — and discouraging even more from participating in the complex process. A very small number of San Franciscans ended up electing our municipal officials and deciding important measures in November’s election. Read More

State poverty rate rises; Peninsula still the lowest

By: Dan Walters 12/04/11 5:00 AM
California’s population increased by 10 percent between 2000 and 2010 but the number of Californians living in poverty grew more than three times as fast, a new U.S. Census Bureau report reveals. Read More

What Google really wants from net neutrality

By: George Landrith 12/02/11 12:25 AM
‘Net neutrality,” which supporters say will keep the Internet free, is actually a plan making it more expensive for many of us. One of the biggest drivers of Net neutrality has been Google, the Internet behemoth. Its goal is to keep its own operational costs lower by trying to make Internet usage more costly for others. Read More

Strong debate doesn’t require camping out

By: Steve Falk 11/30/11 8:37 PM
Nationwide, Americans are angry about the economy, unemployment and economic inequality. The Occupy demonstrations in New York, San Francisco and many other cities have spotlighted these concerns and sparked heated dialogue about the many economic and social challenges facing our cities and our nation. Such discussion and debate is warranted. But Occupy San Francisco has become too expansive, dangerous and damaging to continue in its current form. Read More

Student Occupy protesters owe a debt to California’s 1 percent

By: Dan Walters 11/29/11 11:37 PM
It’s difficult to divine exactly what the Occupy demonstrators in California cities and on university campuses are protesting.The former appear to be denouncing the greed of the “1 percent” — those with the highest incomes — while the latter are opposing fee increases that university boards are imposing to compensate for reductions in state appropriations. Read More

Blocking bombs gives buck its rightful bang

By: James Carafano 11/29/11 11:31 PM
Jose Pimentel decided to become an Islamic extremist, taking online lessons from al-Qaida on how to make war on the West. On Nov. 19, he was arrested for allegedly plotting a string of terrorist attacks in New York. His weapon of choice was the terrorist’s friend, an improvised explosive device. Read More

Drug industry needs revolution to streamline pricey research

By: Paul Howard 11/28/11 11:27 PM
Pundits have been weighing in on Big Pharma’s innovation drought for years, but recently Silicon Valley gurus like Intel’s Andy Grove and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have gotten into the act.Gates’ interest stems from his support for the Gates Foundation, which has made a tremendous commitment to vaccine development for “neglected” diseases in the developing world, like malaria. Read More

‘Superfail’ proved the cynics right

By: David Freddoso 11/28/11 5:00 AM
The failed deficit-reduction supercommittee was a gimmick designed to help Congress force itself to do something it did not want to do. It was the parliamentary version of the chronic straggler who sets his watch 10 minutes ahead in an effort to improve his punctuality. If you have ever tried this, it doesn’t work. And were it possible to achieve virtue through self-deception, our politicians would all be philosopher kings. Read More

GOP voters want candidate who will measure up during debates

By: Philip Klein 11/28/11 5:00 AM
Critics have accused the Republican electorate in recent years of putting a higher premium on ideological purity than on policy knowledge. Read More
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