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Changes to Muni’s bus lines will hurt elderly and disabled
- What’s up with Muni’s plan to literally maroon people living on one of San Francisco’s highest hills (“Muni fine-tunes transformation,” Aug. 7)?
Giants should not have welcomed Barry Bonds back
- I was disappointed that the San Francisco Giants invited Barry Bonds to Saturday’s celebration at AT&T park. I note that during the celebration Bonds did not come clean about his steroid use and apologize to baseball.
Tax credits for clean energy need to be renewed
- Last week, the U.S. Congress left Washington without addressing the energy crisis, gas prices or solutions to the climate crisis.
The City is losing younger residents
- The population of San Francisco residents aged 25-29 has decreased 39,164 since 2000 [City losing its younger residents, Aug. 7] and is now 52,229. Meanwhile, San Francisco residents aged 60-85 or older have increased to 146,828. They are the largest, fastest-growing segment of The City’s population, and represent one of five San Franciscans. Most are women, many are widows and all will face age-related conditions — physical and mental health, personal safety and economics.
Don’t blame the genuinely disabled
- In the rush to blame parking woes on disability placard abuse, we risk blaming anyone who uses a disability placard. The Examiner’s Aug. 7 story (“Placard cheaters run ‘rampant’”) left out the facts that one in five San Francisco residents has a disability, and one in 20 has a disability placard.
Residents should take pride in their neighborhoods
- It may actually benefit communities that the Department of Public Works does not perform frequent street cleaning in many of the residential neighborhoods (“Fewer clean sweeps,” Aug. 6). Many residential blocks have only 16 to 28 houses per block. Why should it not be the neighbors’ personal responsibility to keep their block clean? Everybody can find the time to go out in front of their home and pick up trash a few times a week.
Can The City actually accept a ‘textbook’ fix?
- Today, the Board of Supervisors will hear public comment in the City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee about Supervisor Carmen Chu’s proposed legislation titled “Urging SFUSD to reconsider current school assignment system.” The resolution would simply urge the monolithic San Francisco Unified School District to consider using “geographic considerations” in its K-12 school assignment process.
San Francisco built its legacy on small businesses
- Long ago, in San Francisco, the morning fog carried the scent of sourdough, roasted coffee and brewing beer. Once, our city was home to American Can, Best Foods Mayonnaise, Coca Cola and Levi Strauss. There were union jobs backed by a handshake and the promise of an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.
Happy to hear pharmacies will no longer sell cigarettes
- Congratulations to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for having the courage to make San Francisco the first city in the United States to stop sales of tobacco products in pharmacies. Elsewhere in the world, cigarettes are not commonly sold in pharmacies — where people go for products to help them get well, not get sick.
Transit pass plan too punitive on businesses
- Why is it that everything that is proposed by our illustrious Board of Supervisors and the Mayor’s Office is punitive? (“S.F. may force businesses to help pay for mass transit,” July 31) The goal is noble, but the execution dumb.
Drugstore cigarette ban pathetic
- The latest legislation passed by our completely out-of-touch supervisors is yet another example of how full of themselves they are and how deaf they are to what the residents of this city really expect of them (“Pharmacies fired up against ban,” July 30).
Chinatown’s businesses could be hurt by subway construction
- The media and politicians appear to only hear an orchestrated chorus in unison from the Chinese community, “Chinatown needs the subway at any cost.” I have been living and breathing in the heart of Chinatown for more than 30 years and I am very troubled by this forceful voice in support of the central subway regardless of the cost or the consequences it will bring to the already-strained and endangered businesses. What would happen to their daily struggle to make ends meet?
The free market won’t solve the taxi problem
- Mr. Howard Epstein, Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, opines that “a free market” would lead to more cabs at affordable rates and an end to the [taxi] regulations debate (Letters, July 28).
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