Investigation-January, 2011End Redevelopment ‘Luxury’?Monday, January 31st, 2011 JAN. 31, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI We live in a virtual age of images that sometimes doesn’t reflect reality. Redevelopment agencies across the state are blitzing newspapers with online images of a group of elderly persons in a senior citizen housing project watching TV that purportedly wou... CA Obamacare Lead Will HurtThursday, January 27th, 2011 JAN. 27, 2011 By JOHN SEILER The U.S. House of Representatives, now controlled by Republicans, voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly called Obamacare. The U.S Senate, still controlled by Democrats, will not follow suit. And President Obama would vet... Green Tech Guru’s ApostasyTuesday, January 25th, 2011 JAN. 25, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A Green Tech Martin Luther may have emerged in California, but the state is unlikely to convert to his brand of economic religion. On Oct. 31, 1517, the Catholic monk Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the All Saints Catholic Church in Wi... SFSU Whitewashes HistoryThursday, January 20th, 2011 JAN. 20, 2011 By STAN BRIN My alma mater, San Francisco State University, celebrates Nov. 6, 1967 as the birth of a movement to create the first department and college of Ethnic Studies. I remember Nov. 6, 1967 very differently, as a bad day, a violent day. It was bad for the students, bad ... Brown’s Status-Quo ChoicesMonday, January 10th, 2011 JAN. 10, 2010 By JOHN SEILER "Personnel is policy" is a saying I heard often when I was a journalist in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s during the Reagan administration. The meaning was that, in large, complex modern organizations such as a corporation, state governments or the federal gover... Conway’s Discipline ProblemFriday, January 7th, 2011 JAN. 7, 2011 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO State Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway has a real discipline problem. Not with her family, or her staff, but with her Republican caucus, and the ruthless arithmetic that governs it. Of the 80 members of the California Assembly, just 30 are Republi... |