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Faced with more students and less state funding, the San Mateo Community College District is hoping voters approve Measure H in November to allow the district to issue $564 million in bonds over the next seven years.
The measure would cost San Mateo County property owners an estimated $12.92 per $100,000 in assessed property value each year, which on average comes out to $6.50 a month. The levy would continue for 25 years and pay for modernization, construction and technology.
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When you get news that San Francisco is bucking a national trend, it’s generally a good idea to find a safe hiding place.
And that avoidance tendency, at least for the time being, is sticking with a grand experiment known as ranked-choice voting, which cities across the country are dumping or outright rejecting for the simple reason that it has failed to live up to any of its promises.
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Strictly on its merits — devoid of petty politics — restricting California’s statewide initiative ballot measures to the every-other-year November general election makes much sense.June primary election voter turnouts are not only much lower than those in November, but the ethnic, geographic and partisan makeup of the primary electorate is strongly influenced by the political dynamics of the moment.
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Business leaders are threatening to withdraw their support for several November ballot measures — including Mayor Ed Lee’s pension-reform measure — because of a rift over a proposed change to The City’s health care program.
Business advocates are riled up over Supervisor David Campos’ proposal to change the way hundreds of businesses meet the mandate of The City’s universal health care law because they say it will result in a $50 million hit on businesses and cost jobs.
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Contrasts between President Barack Obama’s job creation proposals and those of Republican presidential candidates have never been clearer. With Obama’s Thursday address to a joint session of Congress, following Republicans’ Wednesday debate, Americans have a choice of two divergent paths. The president’s path — more government spending — has not led to economic prosperity. The other — lower taxes and regulatory reform — just might.
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Police, fire and building trade-labor leaders have joined forces to create a political group to explicitly oppose two leading mayoral candidates.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Supervisor John Avalos have the distinct honor of being the target of the newly formed independent expenditure committee, which has no contribution and spending limits.
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