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Why the new Clipper Card system is actually making the SF Municipal Railway worse
by: Eric Jaye
The Clipper Card sounds like a great idea – until you use it.
San Francisco Taxi Cabs Must be Used More Efficiently
By: Ben Shore
Many of us have stood along the Embarcadero, around Union Square or outside Pier 39 on a rainy and cold San Francisco evening waiting patiently for a taxi to come to our rescue.
And we’ve waited.
And waited.
Time to Allow YouTube Testimony at City Hall
By: Phil Ting, San Francisco Assessor-Recorder
When you look at some actions our San Francisco city government takes – do you ever say to yourself, “What were they thinking?”
I do. And I work at City Hall.
Crowdsourcing San Francisco City Hall
Open government may benefit quality of life
by: Kate Maeder
Creating a Better Business Environment for the 21st Century
By Scott Hauge, President, Small Business California
As the president of Small Business California, I believe in the free market. And I also believe that what makes the free market work is that everyone plays by the same rules.
Proposition 26 keeps MUNI’s hands tied
By: Phil Ting
While the November 2010 mid-term election saw many progressive victories in California – like sending Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris to Sacramento and beating back Proposition 23 – it also brought about one dangerous defeat: the passage of Proposition 26.
Regional Planning
Most urban planning professionals agree that urban problems like sustainable transit, land use, jobs/housing balance need to be addressed at the regional level. That is, that local governments and cities are, by themselves, inadequately equipped for planning around problems that are regional in stake, addressed at a metropolitan level. For example, if only part of a region has access to public transit, how can a region reduce its overal passenger miles traveled, and reduce emissions?
Beyond the “Band-Aid” for Our State and Local Budgets
February 1, 2011
As San Francisco struggles to find common sense solutions to our ongoing budget deficits, we must start addressing the underlying problems in our finances and not just apply the type of “band-aid” fixes that only work in the short term.
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