Having grown up at 18th Street and Dolores, I was delighted to read your Sunday Credo page about Sam Mogannam of the Bi-Rite Market. I first met Sam’s parents and the Mogannam family when they began operating Bi-Rite, a store I worked in as a kid in the 1950s.The neighborhood used to be a bit more edgy than it is now. Nobody envied Sam’s dad and uncle; they constantly had to deal with the walk-in thugs, robberies and burglaries.
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Growing up in The City and learning how to ride a bike, one learned at an early age to avoid buses. The other day, a cyclist tangled with a bus and was severely injured in a seeming hit-and-run. This tragic accident was viewed by Leah Shahum of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition as an opportunity to demonize Muni’s operator training.
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The United States Postal Service (or still the post office to most of us) has been losing money for decades. With competition from email, electronic bill paying, United Parcel Service and FedEx, the need diminishes.
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Why not just increase the number and reliability of the buses routed through Chinatown? It would cost much less and provide much better service — taking riders to connecting crosstown buses at each block. No climbing up and down three flights of Central Subway stairs with bags of groceries and other Chinatown purchases. No trudging to one poorly located Chinatown station to use a service that fails to connect even with the BART and Muni Market Street subway lines.
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Leaders at both the Santa Clara Water District and the Alameda County Water District oppose Kern County selling some of its water rights to Cargill/DMB in order to make possible the proposed massive Saltworks development on the Redwood City bayfront.
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Your Thursday editorial criticizing the track record on city park projects paid for by bonds was a public service. I was part of the working group to craft the “model” Recreation and Park Department bond measure for 2008.
Unfortunately, many of the checks and balances for accountability we supported were not implemented.
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When the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a court order for reducing California’s 140,000 prison inmates by 46,000, the strongly contested 5-4 decision brought dissenting Justice Samuel A. Alito’s prophetic warning, “The majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California.” Apparently 13,000 inmates have already been given early releases, leaving 33,000 inmates for the state to shed over the next two years.
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Will BART police officers do a better job if they live in a town with a BART station, as was argued in your Monday cover story? This is a ridiculous premise for a news story. Even more amazing to me is how the local media publicized the criminals who hacked a website and released private BART police personnel data.
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The page 13 article in the Sunday San Francisco Examiner frets about the California Assembly “making it nearly impossible to link spending to individual legislators.”
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We here in the McCoppin hub area, under the shadow of the freeway ramp on Valencia Street, agree that marijuana should be available to patients who can benefit from it. We came out in force, however, when the third pot club in a three-block stretch was up for a permit. There was a high school, Head Start, church youth center and a planned elementary school all within those blocks. We were defeated and the third club got its permit.
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