Although marijuana is not yet legalized in California via Proposition 19, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new law reclassifying possession of an ounce or less as an infraction. Possession is now equivalent to a parking ticket.
In many ways this new law doesn’t change much. Almost no one in California gets arrested for small amounts of marijuana anyway. Marijuana has been virtually legal in California for years.
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San Francisco has 70 beautiful hills for tourists to frolic among, and now it has Mount Grewsome in Bayshore. Right on Highway 101, at the portal to San Francisco, it would have million-dollar views of the America’s Cup Race, if we could only figure out a way to attach bleachers to the rubble, concrete debris and toxic waste.
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It seems to me, as a transportation planner, that the new Central Subway station at Union Square would have a great majority of its riders transferring. Said differently, close to everyone riding the T line at Union Square would not stay on board because BART, Muni’s other lines and shopping at Union Square would be the reason they took the T. In reverse, they would use the T coming from the shopping area, BART and Muni’s other lines to go either south or north.
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The City’s Public Library espouses revisionist budgetary history. In 1988, Proposition A’s $109 million bond was passed for a new Main Library and to upgrade all branch libraries. Not done. In 2000, another $106 million bond was passed to renovate all branch libraries. Not done. In 2007, Prop. D gave the Library Revenue Bond authority to sell revenue bonds to help offset a $40 million shortfall.
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Having spent 30 years as a teacher and administrator in special education, my reaction to your Wednesday story “City special-ed approach outdated” is outrage. How many times do we have to go through this cycle to get the lesson?
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Your Sept. 23 story, “Library pushes branch projects,” makes little mention that the San Francisco Public Library is nearing completion on almost all the 24 libraries in the Branch Library Improvement Program.
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It is appalling that the businesses paying taxes and license fees to San Francisco, as well as paying rent and being subject to physical inspections, are in competition with carpetbaggers selling food and goods from vans parked in the street and card tables on the sidewalk.
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I never thought I would live to see the day when I would side with City Hall on an issue related to affordable housing in San Francisco, but I guess that day has arrived. Although I believe that mandatory affordable housing is nothing less than city-dictated extortion, those owners who are suing to establish their right to sell their condominiums at market rates are being disingenuous at best.
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I am glad that at least one newspaper in this area has the guts to discuss the cowardice of the media when it comes to Islamic intimidation. The death threats against the Seattle cartoonist are just the most recent example. There were previous threats against the producers of “South Park.” Even the Yale University Press censored a book about the Danish cartoons that depicted Muhammad.
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Your Sunday story about the dog-stabbing incident in Fort Funston repeatedly described the accused assailant as a “pit bull” owner. And I couldn’t help but wonder why? You didn’t once describe the breed of the dog that was stabbed. But for some reason, you found it pertinent to make sure everyone knew the suspect’s dog was a pit bull — even though that dog was not guilty of taking part in that terrible attack at all.
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