Tim Redmond, Executive Editor of the Bay Guardian has some Polonius-like advice for the SF Chronicle (below in italics). Among other things, Redmond advises the Chronicle to concentrate on local issues and forget about national/international issues, which is funny coming from a weekly that consisten...

FROM: Mary Miles (SB #230395)Attorney at Law, andCoalition for Adequate Review TO: President Ron Miguel and Members of theSan Francisco Planning Commission1650 Mission St., Suite 400San Francisco, CA 94103 DATE: February 19, 2009 BY HAND DELIVERY PUBLIC COMMENT Item 17, San Francisco Planning Commis...

Goodplanner writes: Masonic Avenue is only one of three signal-controlled roads between the Great Highway and Divisidero suitable for traffic. The others are Park Presidio and Stanyan. There is an active proposal to take out a lane on Van Ness. Meanwhile, Park Presidio congestion is so bad that it t...

First, we need to be clear about what the draft environmental review (DEIR) of the Bicycle Plan is not: It's not a environmental review of the same Bicycle Plan Judge Busch ordered the city to review in his decision of November, 2006. http://district5diary.blogspot.com/2006/11/judge-buschs-decision....

Iraq: Good News Is No News By Charles Krauthammer Washington Post February 13, 2009 Preoccupied as it was poring through Tom Daschle's tax returns, Washington hardly noticed a near-miracle abroad. Iraq held provincial elections. There was no Election Day violence. Security was handled by Iraqi force...

According to this Examiner story (below in italics), the city is getting ready to pay $120,000 to do a study of Masonic Ave., even though the EIR on the Bicycle Plan analyzes that street exhaustively. I don't know of any evidence showing that Masonic Ave. is particularly dangerous compared to other ...

THE SPEECH GEERT WILDERS WOULD HAVE DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS IF HE HADN'T BEEN BANNED FROM ENTERING THE UNITED KINGDOM http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1515&Itemid=114 London, Feb. 12, 2009 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. Thank you fo...

The litigation to stop the garage from being built under the Concourse in Golden Gate Park may be over, but apparently the debate must go on. Katherine Roberts (in italics below) is still looking for vindication of her unsuccessful suit against the city to stop the garage from being built. Roberts: ...

The Bicycle Coalition is urging its membership "to make sure that all 56 projects of the Bike Plan get approved": At long last, the environmental impact report (EIR) for the SF Bicycle Plan is approaching completion and the injunction which has stopped physical improvements for bicycle traffic in th...

Best Personnel Move of the Year: Mayor dumps Leah Shahum Why Mayor Newsom appointed the SF Bicycle Coalition's Shahum to the MTA board in the first place is a bit of a mystery. For years the mayor has tried to placate the city's bike people, even though they surely all voted for Matt Gonzalez in 200...