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• Commented on Goodies by Anna: Conversation Heart Cookies
  Adorable, thanks for sharing the idea....
• Commented on You Asked: Was A Body Found At Baker Beach Last Night?
  I believe Ochre is right about suicides normally being withheld from news. Besides the reasons Ochre already mentioned, there is the risk that publishing the info might be enough to push some other desperate people to kill themselves, whether just...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Landlord Wants To Move His Office In With His Tenants
  Eve, you are quite right, that is the spirit in which the feedback is intended. I have been watching the Appeal with interest -- we need an independent online newspaper here in SF, and I think there's a wonderful opportunity...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Landlord Wants To Move His Office In With His Tenants
  Eve, Of course I regularly "pick up newspapers" and read the ones you cite online regularly. I've never seen a column by Krugman, Friedman, etc with a "news" label at the top. In fact, if you click on over to...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Landlord Wants To Move His Office In With His Tenants
  Greg, My outrage was hardly "faux." The idea that "owning property changes people; never for the better" is so extremist and bigoted, I almost don't know where to begin to express the outrage I feel about it. (And I say...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Landlord Wants To Move His Office In With His Tenants
  One other thing. Why does this column carry the label "news" at the top? This is most certainly not news. If this "newspaper" wants to attain any credibility at all, it needs to try to establish at least some *basic*...
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Landlord Wants To Move His Office In With His Tenants
  "Inherit" does not refer solely to property: you can inherit powers, problems, situations, genetic traits, etc. Before offering such a harsh characterization of the letter-writer -- who appears to me to just be asking an objective legal question -- perhaps...
• Commented on Muni Pushes Ad-Covered (Even the Windows) Buses As Revenue Source
  Agree with LibertyHiller. I've had a vehicle wrap on my own car before and the material used on windows can be seen through from the inside (duh). Another attempt to create controversy where none should exist....