Year of the Ram [Goat, Sheep]:  Good Year for Good Resolutions  “A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.”—Confucius TIME FOR CLARITY OF MIND:  DISPELLING MYTHS TO MOVE TRANSIT FORWARD While cars, traffic, gridlock, greenhouse gas emissions, expenditures […]

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The Commonwealth Club is proposing to renovate 110 the Embarcadero for its headquarters.  It is mystifying why this respected and normally responsible organization is considering the current unsuitable design, especially since they earlier proposed a harmonious design that would have […]

Government and public policy serve everyone—not just the rich and influential.  San Francisco has been enriched by great wealth as well as cultural and economic diversity.  Sparked by a beautiful environment and a strategic geography, San Francisco’s eminence evolved through […]

Where the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s billions of dollars have gone: Big salaries, overhead, overtime, bad projects and cost overruns—while Muni service is cut in every neighborhood.   BIG SFMTA SALARIES While SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) pleads […]

$500 million bond measures are rare but Prop A squanders the opportunity. SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) has already wasted billions of dollars while cutting Muni service in every neighborhood.  Now Prop A incurs $1 billion in new debt […]

Proposition A is a $500 million General Obligation transportation bond issue which, including interest payments, would exceed one billion dollars in total cost to the populace. Voters should reject this huge bond measure. Here’s why: Prop. A would raise property […]

Pier 70 is an architectural and historical treasure on the southeastern waterfront for which the Port has just finalized the Union Iron Works Historic District.  Currently, the 20th Street historical buildings are being renovated, including the grand Union Iron Works Building […]

There are all kinds of ballot strategies meant to confuse the voter.  SFT members are not the gullible kind but they must be careful to vote No on I (and tell their friends) that Prop I is not just about […]

San Francisco’s development and planning cornerstone, Prop M, has been effectively guiding development in San Francisco since its passage by the electorate in 1986. But recently, Prop M has been sidelined and ignored by the Court of Appeals’ decision on […]