System Failure: California’s Prop 13
Facts: 1. In virtually every county, commercial property is paying a far smaller share of the property tax since Proposition 13 passed in 1978. 2. Commercial property is able to …
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Obstacles to More Jobs in San Francisco
Thank you to everyone in the jobs group for helping make the Reset San Francisco launch event such a success! We want to keep the discussion going online so that …
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Financial Dashboard: Where do your tax dollars go
From the ResetSF launch event, transparency was a popular theme. As an open government advocate, I do believe in the well-known quote from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeisthat that “Sunlight is the …
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Frequency and on-time performance
One key to improving MUNI is simple — improve frequency and on-time performance. Well I know that is way easier said then done. But on several of the lines, only …
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Plastic Bag Ban
It looks like the State Legislature didn’t pass the ban on single-use plastic bags: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/02/BATN1F7A7P.DTL. Does anybody have an opinion on that? Seems like it’s been a definite issue of interest …
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Parents Struggle for their Choice in Schools
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/19/BAJM1EVTTB.DTL
Should parents be allowed to have their first choice school? Or should parents just go to the school their child is supposed to go to according to the district? …
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