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Weighing text-lobbying during public meetings
Mayor Gavin Newsom is slightly off track in suggesting a ban on text-message lobbying during meetings of San Francisco's Board of...
'Get out of jail free' in San Francisco
San Francisco drug dealers are waltzing out of court this week, all charges dropped after an embarrassing - and unprofessional ...
Sen. Roy Ashburn comes out the tough way
There is a thick blend of sadness and outrage in state Sen. Roy Ashburn's abrupt acknowledgement that he is gay. The sadness is that...
A wage cut that saves jobs
A$522 million city deficit has turned the unthinkable into reality. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has ordered - not just suggested...
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The Board of Supervisors has expanded San Francisco's public health ordinance to increase protection from secondhand smoke outdoors (...
Wild horses - symbol of the West moving east?
A rancher was quoted in a documentary about the problems involved with the reintroduction of the nearly extinct Mexican wolf as saying...
School construction could yield jobs, only if ...
"Jobs, jobs, jobs" was the call from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in his State of the State message. No one heckled. Jobs are a...
California's tax tactics undermine prosperity
California's bond rating is the country's lowest. The state faces near unprecedented unemployment and underemployment. State...
Increased access to broadband vital to growth
Think about what was possible online in 1995. Internet adoption in the United States stood at just over 10 percent, and most surfed...
Cities must define core services
Local government cannot afford everything it's doing, so where do cities begin to cut spending? To bridge budget gaps, lawmakers can...
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Where Toyota really lost its way
"The Toyota Way." For a generation, it was the gold standard of corporate slogans, as the Japanese automaker rose to No. 1 in the...
Nummi's closure opens challenge, opportunity
The fate of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont offers a cautionary tale for any region that needs to attract new...
Retool Nummi as a clean technology incubator
The closing of Nummi and loss of nearly 5,000 jobs is a wake-up call for California. And it's not just Nummi. In January, Northrop...
Change the business climate
The families and communities suffering from the closure of the Nummi plant in Fremont are the latest victims in a jobs crisis of...
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Open Forum: Animal abuse registry is to protect animals
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By Dean Florez My proposed bill to create a statewide registry of convicted animal abusers has generated a...
