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Customize your résumé

By: Max Messmer 04/10/13 9:36 PM
It’s hard to get what you want if you don’t know what you want. For instance, a job seeker who recently contacted Robert Half opened his cover letter with an odd request: “Please read this letter and then let me know where I would fit in best in your organization.” How many hiring managers will have the time or inclination to do this applicant’s work for him? I suspect none. Read More

Farsighted view of marriage equality

By: Joel P. Engardio 04/10/13 9:31 PM
In the same week the Supreme Court heard its two historic cases on same-sex marriage, Google announced the first lucky test subjects who would get to try Google Glass — history-making eyewear that puts the Internet in your field of vision. None of the justices were selected, but maybe Google should lend them a pair before they reach a decision in June. Read More

Are you as smart as San Francisco fifth-graders?

By: Richard A. Carranza 04/08/13 10:14 PM
Hard to believe it, but it’s April and time again for our students to take the California Standardized Testing and Reporting tests. Teachers and education officials use the results of STAR tests to identify individual student progress, as well as trends in how well groups of students are learning the standards in order to improve educational programs. Read More

Attacks on CEQA distort the truth

By: Rebecca Evans and Quentin L. Kopp 04/08/13 10:10 PM
Forty-three years ago, California adopted one of the nation’s most foresighted environmental protection laws, the California Environmental Quality Act, which is known as CEQA. The law encourages our elected officials to “look before they leap” and make decisions based on an objective analysis of a proposed project’s impacts on the environment. Read More

Bankruptcy could complicate your lawsuit

By: Christopher B. Dolan 04/04/13 7:08 PM
This week’s question comes from Sarah C. in Daly City: Read More

It is time for San Francisco to act on CEQA reform

By: Bob Linscheid 04/03/13 6:38 PM
San Francisco’s planning approval process is notoriously difficult, often taking months — and sometimes a decade or more — to approve a project. The City’s lengthy process can add significantly to a developer’s costs. These costs are impacting the pace of development and the type of projects that get built in The City. Read More

All kinds of families celebrated in SFUSD

By: Richard A. Carranza 04/01/13 9:59 PM
As the legal status of gay families is debated nationally, I assure you that here in the San Francisco Unified School District, we continue to see all families as equally important and celebrate that our families come in all forms. Last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy talked about the fact that as many as 40,000 children in California live with same-sex parents, and he posed that children may be adversely affected by their parents not being allowed to marry. Read More

Tenancy-in-common legislation would benefit middle class

By: Joel P. Engardio 04/01/13 9:54 PM
Today’s price to live in San Francisco is $1 million for a modest home or thousands a month for a market-rate apartment. That’s the reality of supply and demand when 800,000 people want to live on a tiny peninsula where Tartine scones and Bi-Rite Creamery can be found on the same Mission district block. Read More

Do your stairs meet state safety rules?

By: Christopher B. Dolan 03/27/13 11:54 PM
stairs, staircase, landlord
This week’s column is a followup to last week’s question from Marissa C., who fell on some stairs in her senior living community. She wanted to know whether there are safety regulations for stairways in apartments and commercial buildings, and whether violation of those regulations can lead to legal liability. Read More

Keep your kids learning even during spring break

By: Richard A. Carranza 03/25/13 10:56 PM
This week is spring break for San Francisco’s public schools, which means students get a brief change of routine before going back to their spring semester classes. But taking a break from the classroom doesn’t necessarily mean the learning stops. In fact, the change in routine can reinforce what kids have been studying in school. The time off is the perfect chance to show your child how what he or she learns in school relates to the everyday world around us. Read More
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