How is it possible that Muni’s suggested changes, based on an 18-month study, can be altered based on some squeaky wheels who want to keep a bus line, such as the 26-Valencia, because “it’s very calm”? (“Public voice may alter Muni’s plans,” Examiner, May 7) That’s nonsense. It is similar to telling a doctor who just notified you, after running a battery of tests and analyses, that you have a terminal disease that his diagnosis is wrong, because you feel fine.

San Mateo County’s public hospital is teetering on the financial edge — a situation that’s likely to grow more precarious with state budget cuts this year.

A coalition of health care groups sued the state Monday to prevent pay cuts to doctors, dentists, pharmacists and others who treat the poor, elderly and disabled.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will attempt another ambitious reform of health care in California despite a budget deficit he is now estimating could climb as high as $20 billion.

A state has no right to steal, use and profit from the lawfully acknowledged intellectual property of a private citizen or group. To claim otherwise in a free society is unthinkable, monstrous and a clear step toward accepting the economic underpinnings of fascism.