I think it’s timely to recommend (as I traditionally have done since my first year on the Board of Supervisors in 1972), ballot measure votes and candidate elections.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
Commentary: Paul Kozakiewicz (Richmond Review)
Lately, newsracks that used to carry numerous newspapers and magazines have been removed from city streets – putting a serious dent in the distribution of those publications, including the Richmond Review and Sunset Beacon newspapers.
Commentary: Sandra Lee Fewer
I am shocked that there has not been more outrage at what has befallen Laguna Honda Hospital and the 681 patients that call Laguna Honda Hospital home.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
Following my last musing about the deplorable results of such ward elections and their rise under threat of California Voting Rights Act litigation in such small cities as Millbrae, San Bruno, South San Francisco, Foster City and Redwood City, I discovered a possible silver lining.
Commentary: Paul Kozakiewicz
The process of closing park roads was done with the verbal order of Phil Ginsburg, the general manager of the SF Recreation and Park Department, who was granted that authority under the city charter in the late 1800s.
Commentary: Sandra Lee Fewer
SFMTA’s Wake-Up Call By Sandra Lee Fewer The results of the June 7 election should have been a huge wake up call for SFMTA. I can’t remember when a bond measure has […]
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
As San Franciscans observe the 256th anniversary of the country’s declaration of our independence from British rule, we give thanks for the successful recall of Chesa Boudin from district attorney status, the defeat of a Board of Supervisors’ ballot measure to diminish our authority to remove a non-performing public official from office, the repeal of a 1932 ordinance conferring a trash collection monopoly on Recology’s predecessors – thus enabling next month a law requiring competitive, open bidding for such public contract, and ignominious defeat of a $400 million general obligation bond which, with interest over 30 years, would have cost taxpayers $1.005 billion!
Commentary: Paul Kozakiewicz
About 15 years ago, a longtime Richmond District resident named Pat Swendsen sent me a column written by syndicated columnist Ann Landers. She said: “Dear Paul, this is so important it should not be lost in the archives. Hope you can use it.”
Commentary: Tracy Thompson
The SFMTA has done irreparable harm to this City’s businesses. The vacant commercial storefronts along Van Ness, Market, and Irving are casualties of the SFMTA and indicative of Jeffrey Tumlin’s smug futuristic projects.
Commentary: City Leaders Value Money Over Saving Lives
If we had a benefit vs. cost analysis performed to expand EFWS projects citywide, the results would be overwhelmingly in favor of spending money now to save the Bay Area’s crown jewel from being destroyed again by earthquake fires.
Commentary: Julie Pitta
A man shouting obscenities at Boudin supporters a day before the election is another example of the way our political discourse has coarsened
Assembly: Phil Ting
Richmond Area Multi-Services, or RAMS, a nonprofit which has operated locally since 1974, has been an extraordinary advocate for mental health services, especially among the Asian Pacific Islander (API) population.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
An anonymous wit once declared in the 1950s: “We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.”
Commentary: Vince Yuen
Trash. It’s something everyone has to deal with. Unfortunately, in San Francisco we have a major problem with it getting into our streets and public spaces.
Commentary: Paul Kozakiewicz
When politicians go sideways, due to corruption, malfeasance or gross incompetence, the people have a right to recall them. That right was established and incorporated into the State Constitution more than 100 years ago.
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