When the government creates gun-free zones, they become sites of massacres that gunmen look upon as safe havens (“Suspect’s notebook sent to psychiatrist,” Thursday). In Colorado, a package with a return address belonging to 24-year-old slaying suspect James Eagan Holmes’ home — an apartment booby-trapped with fire bombs — remained unopened for more than a week at a University of Colorado campus.
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I am shocked and concerned over your completely unfair editorial (“Soup ban about overfishing, not culture attack.” July 24). Both you and Gov. Jerry Brown seem to have swallowed hook, line and sinker the untruth and distortion put forth by AB 376’s sponsors concerning the need for a shark fin ban.
In fact, the reality is that virtually all experts in the field agree that there is no need for such a ban because federal law since 2000 has made shark finning illegal.
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Your editorial about City College of San Francisco (“Local community must help keep CCSF doors open,” July 17) did not address either the cause of the problems or solutions.
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I am writing to express my disappointment and sadness about the poor ethics and greed of real estate agents in San Francisco.
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The Republicans’ hysterical reaction to President Barack Obama’s plan to keep reduced tax rates for people with incomes under $250,000 seems to ignore the fact that this also benefits those lucky enough to make more.
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In response to your story (“Board clashes over planning board selection,” July 18), I think it is the height of hypocrisy for so-called “progressives” to block the re-appointment of Michael Antonini to the Planning Commission strictly on ideological grounds.
I thought San Francisco was a city that prided itself on diversity. Shouldn’t that concept apply to having a diversity of opinion on The City’s boards and commissions as well?
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Your front-page headline reads: Rising from the ASHES, (“PG&E trying to win your trust” July 16) where one of the Bay Area’s most visible public relations and crisis management experts said “I would say that PG&E is arguably the most damaged corporate brand in America today.”
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We San Franciscans can be very proud of our firefighters and paramedics. Early Saturday evening, as I was preparing to listen to an outdoor concert at the Fillmore Center, an elderly man walked up slowly toward me and asked me to call an ambulance for him. In his slow and slurred speech, he said he was experiencing a stroke coming on, and that he was a past stroke victim.
Noticing his distress and discerning his acute stroke symptoms, I called 911.
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Your lead paragraph concerning the Santa Clara stadium project (Editorial, “Niners sacked Santa Clara with bad stadium deal,” Friday) is effective, as it encapsulates your attitude about the project in one key principle — jealousy.
“That’s what you get, Santa Clara,” is hardly an unbiased analysis. The deal did not unravel in June 2010, and the complexity of the financing is based on the key point that no general fund money will be used for the stadium.
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San Francisco Supervisor David Campos was quoted in your article about Mayor Ed Lee’s recent suggestion concerning the possibility of adopting New York’s and Chicago’s “stop and frisk” police procedure as a method of dealing with suspicious people, possibly lowering crime rates and dealing with gun crime before it happens (“Supervisors criticize Lee, frisk policy,” July 11). In regard to the procedure, Campos said, “It really goes against everything that we believe in here in San Francisco.”
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Like some coal-powered locomotive puffing out black smoke, the naysayers are out in full force with their doomsday predictions on high-speed rail for California.
They were around, too, when the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge were proposed during the Great Depression (“they’re too expensive!”); when the Central Valley Water Project was proposed (“a fantastic dream that will not work”); and even for our heavily used BART system (“a fiasco”) before construction had even started.
Where would we be today without those projects?
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Against the will of 75 percent of California’s voters, the state Legislature’s Democrats on Friday approved spending $8 billion on high-speed rail in the Central Valley.This came after intense lobbying from big-union bosses, Gov. Jerry Brown and President Barack Obama. No Republicans approved high-speed rail spending. But this is only a small 4 percent down payment on a huge multibillion-dollar project that doesn’t even include high-speed trains, electrification, train control, private investors or future funding sources.
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The Ross Mirkarimi hearings illustrate how useless “professional politicians” are.
The sheriff (for the time being) is in his mid-40s, a stage of life when a mature individual has established a career of some sort whereby he or she is a self-supporting adult, can contribute a service or produce goods, and can contribute to the creation of wealth.
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In your article about all the successful bike lanes around San Francisco (“Lane changes moving S.F.,” July 1), the author failed to point out the inherent problems with the new Golden Gate Park bike lanes. They’re unsafe for cyclists, motorists and pedestrians alike.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding President Barack Obama’s historic health care legislation is victory for health care in our nation. It is truly a testament to Obama’s vision and leadership for our nation and our people, as well as the leadership, commitment and hard work of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, on this issue. Chief Justice John Roberts also deserves credit for the 5-4 swing vote on this momentous ruling.
But the game is not over.
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