There has been vast neighborhood opposition to the on-street skateboard park being imposed at the Stanyan/Waller site. Neighbors are not opposed to a skateboard park in Golden Gate Park, and offered to help find a better location.
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The proposed $1.1 billion 49ers stadium in Santa Clara is bizarrely designed, undersized and grossly lacks parking. It is far from real transit, and weeknight games would be banned. Season ticket holders can help stop this foolish venture by refusing to purchase expensive seat licenses and communicating their displeasure to 49ers ownership and the National Football League.
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In its Nov. 27 reporting on pending improvements to The City’s plastic bag ordinance, The San Francisco Examiner looked at it the wrong way. San Francisco passed a groundbreaking ban in 2007, but is now falling behind. The region’s largest city, San Jose, passed a strong ban applying to all retailers in 2010 and other cities are following that lead. These common-sense amendments have the support of groups like the Small Business Commission.
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Your Monday editorial about the problems with settlements from class-action lawsuits is right on. Class-action lawsuits represent one of the worst abuses of the legal system. Originally intended to make the legal system more efficient, they have instead become a way for trial lawyers to get quick money, while those who have allegedly been injured often get little or even nothing.
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I am a lifelong independent and dislike many Democratic policies, but I have yet to hear a Republican who will admit the three fundamental GOP claims are false. And the media will not report these falsehoods.
“Raising taxes on the wealthy reduced employment” is false. The Clinton administration raised taxes on the wealthy and saw unparalleled growth. The George W. Bush administration dramatically cut taxes on the wealthy and saw no job growth.
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I must disagree with the Nov. 20 letter presenting a sympathetic portrait of the participants in the Occupy San Francisco encampment. I believe the writer’s picture of youths who went to college but cannot find jobs is only part of the picture. What were their majors? If they were in liberal arts, then that is part of the reason for their not having jobs. In effect, they are unemployable.
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Friday’s San Francisco Examiner editorial, “Chu Offers No Apology for Fleecing Taxpayers,” appropriately focused on the need for an official apology for the half-billion federal dollars wasted on Solyndra despite “multiple warnings beforehand.” Just an apology? How about some firings? Or doesn’t a half-billion dollars of Washington waste matter anymore?
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I spoke to “Pantsless Nick” at the Occupy San Francisco encampment and he is respectfully requesting a correction to what was written about him in your Nov. 16 cover story.
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I am a great-grandmother who has made several visits to the Occupy San Francisco encampment. I was there from midnight to 3 a.m. on one occasion. I saw mostly young people, many who graduated from college but cannot find a job and still live at home, or like the 18-year-old woman who ran out of college money after one semester and is just hoping Starbucks will not think she is too unkempt to be hired. (I told her where to shower.)
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A simple solution exists to erase the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s $80 million budget deficits without draconian revenue increases. The Central Subway project has drained $500 million in scarce state and local funds from Muni for a tiny 1.7 mile route.
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