Tuesday January 18, 2011 Updated 5:19 PM PST
Should the state eliminate redevelopment funding?
In December 2010, the U.S. inflation rate was reported at 1.5 percent. The average inflation rate in the United States from the years...
Here we go again. The impresario of the world's most valuable tech firm is taking sick leave - for the third time in a decade. And...
Gov. Jerry Brown pledged to deliver an "honest budget" without the "smoke and mirrors" that have contained only an illusion of balance...
Gov. Jerry Brown has barely taken office, but he's already presented an audacious plan for the state budget. It's audacious to presume...
Gun laws and priorities The recent Arizona shootings by a suspect with a handgun has made me, as a professor of criminal justice...
The America Competes legislation recently signed into law includes a provision I authored to require the preparation of an updated...
The recent job numbers demonstrated yet again that it's a mistake to assume that happy days are here again. A major reason for the...
Early one morning a few weeks ago, we received an urgent message at Direct Relief's headquarters: "Many people are going to die - and...
Saying the weather hasn't been cold in the Bay Area this winter won't make it true. Saying the political climate had nothing to do...
This is one of the saddest moments in American politics. An innocent 9-year old girl, Christina Green, is dead. Before her parents...
Sunday, January 16, 2011 Edition
1. What money-saving idea is the Golden Gate Bridge district considering? A: Charging joggers to run on bridge sidewalks B: Going...
There are no liberals in San Francisco City Hall. The politicians in power identify themselves and their adversaries as "moderates" or...
The news that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot in the head hit me in the stomach - complete nausea. My grief over a fallen...
Jared Lee Loughner may turn out to be certifiably mad. But it bears mentioning that the entire United States of America lately has...
Demonization of others -- Berkeley-style
5:05 PM CA Assoc of Scholars calls it rancorous and intellectually lazy: Demonization of others -- Berkeley-style t.co/dp8RSUg via @sfgate (debrajsaunders)
4:33 PM Meg Whitman knows how to stick with a losing strategy: t.co/khlphUp via @sfgate (debrajsaunders)
12:11 PM Gary Johnson -- fmr NM GOP Gov -- wants to cut guvmint by 43%. Gary Johnson's plate of choice cuts t.co/yuQqz6S via @sfgate (debrajsaunders)
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