Articles Posted in the Opinion Category
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The Case for Community-Owned Bay Area Sports
Across the Bay Bridge, the Oakland A’s are in a similar situation. The team’s owners have been disrespecting the fans for the better part of the last 15 years with constant threats and attempts to move the team elsewhere: first San Jose, then Santa Clara, then Fremont, and now San Jose again. None of these attempts have amounted to anything except increasing the anger the fans feel towards the ownership.
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In Support of President Obama
Here are just a few of his major accomplishments: health care reform (imperfect though it may be); a $789 billion economic stimulus package; auto industry bailout; selecting Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court; credit card reform; allowing more federal money for stem cell research; new policy on Cuba (allowing Cuban families to return home to visit loved ones); financial regulatory reform; successful challenge to Arizona’s immigration law; and improved relations with Russia. And this is only a partial list.
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Board Notes
Turning to the other flashpoint of the day, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, acting in accordance with the mayor’s wishes, attempted to pull a rabbit out of his hat with a parliamentary trick in a transparent effort to upend efforts by progressives to place a foot patrol ballot measure, sponsored by District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, on the November ballot.
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Auto Trips Generated:
The Standard that Ate the Bicycle NetworkUnder ATG, each auto trip would be considered an environmental impact and would be mitigated by a predetermined impact fee. A bike lane project would have zero ATG impact, while a luxury condo building with one-to-one parking would generate some positive number of auto trips based on parking spaces and any other applicable considerations. The calculated impact fees would go to the MTA. As of mid 2010, the ATG standard has yet to be completed. The development of a minimally complicated standard has taken longer than it took to do real rocket science, to conceive and execute the Apollo project in the 1960s.
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SFPD Respond to Clamor for Foot Patrols
What I saw causing the commotion were two San Francisco police officers standing upright on scooters cutting through the crowd ahead of me. The two appeared to be in perfect narcissistic bliss as they cruised along in slo-mo. For all the world they looked like victorious gladiators before admiring throngs, minus blades on hubs.
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Carly Fiorina: A Global Warming Denier
Fiorina even had the audacity to suggest the science of global warming needs to be examined. What’s to examine when the overwhelming scientific consensus has concluded that global warming is happening and that it is induced by human activity?
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Board Notes
As has been customary for Mayor Gavin Newsom, he failed to attend the meeting, flouting the will of the electorate which passed a 2006 advisory measure requiring the mayor to held accountable for his policies.
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