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• Commented on Supervisor Kim Asks SFMTA About Renaming "Lech Walesa Street" After Polish Politician's Anti-Gay Remarks
  Speak for yourself, Greg. How about simply reverting back to "Ivy"?...
• Commented on Bay Area Japanese Americans Commemorate Internment Camps, Warn That It Could Happen Again
  No, it's not going to happen again. After all, did we round up every Muslim in the US after the 9/11 attacks? I didn't think so. One thing that's easily forgotten is that there were enemy aliens among the Japanese-American...
• Commented on Supervisors Committee Meeting Monday Morning To Complain About Muni
  No better way to stifle public participation by waiting until the morning of the hearing to publicize it. Keep it up, Scott, and you'll be mayor someday. This won't actually accomplish anything, because the problem isn't just funding, it's institutional....
• Commented on Witnesses Dispute BART Account Of Smoky Civic Center Incident
  Was there any independent reporting on this story, or are we just rewriting the stories from the Chronicle and Examiner these days?...
• Commented on Former Chron Reporter Was City's Only Choice for "Temporary" Spokesperson Gig
  Wow... that looks totally above board....
• Commented on SFPD Chief Makes Crucial Mistake When Arguing For Tasers
  Way to inspire us with confidence, Chief....
• Commented on Noe Valley Streets Closed As Crews Continue Work On Water Main Break
  I know this a wire story, but for the record: 22nd and Guerrero is in the Mission, not Noe Valley....
• Commented on Kaiser SF Fined For Leaving "foreign object" Behind During Procedure
  This happened to a friend of mine at SFGH several years ago. I wonder what chunk of the fine goes to the poor patients, but I bet I already know the answer....
• Commented on Kaiser SF Fined For Leaving "foreign object" Behind During Procedure
  This happened to a friend of mine at SFGH several years ago. I wonder what chunk of the fine goes to the poor patients, but I bet I already know the answer....
• Commented on Appointment To Newly-Created Job Gets Bevan Dufty Substantial Bump In Pay
  Ooooh, and we can give it a catchy name. How about "Leeville"? "Edopolis"? Let's come up with something good that will define the mayor's re-election campaign, which appears to be well underway....
• Commented on Fight Over Newspaper Ends With Man Stabbed In Face By Pen
  And people say that nobody cares if newspapers are going out of style......
• Commented on Appointment To Newly-Created Job Gets Bevan Dufty Substantial Bump In Pay
  Bevan, like any puppet, performs best when someone else is calling the shots....
• Commented on PG&E Exec Describes Candlestick Outage As "Most Embarrassing Moment"
  Typical behavior for PG&E, which is too busy trying to keep its executives' bonuses topped up to worry about little details like maintenance and repairs until it has no choice. At least nobody died this time....
• Commented on Staff Cuts Hit SF Weekly: At Least Four Laid Off Today
  I won't miss Smith's bloviating one bit; he was the weakest of their long-form writers. One Chuck Nevius in this town is enough....
• Commented on Muni Brings The 80s Back With Train Hookup Scheme
  As I recall, the ATCS ran OS/2 at its installation; the displays in the stations run XP....
• Commented on Muni Brings The 80s Back With Train Hookup Scheme
  That would only require rewriting the ATCS software, possibly from scratch. Sliding-block control was difficult enough to implement with one berth per station per direction; given how much fun that turned out to be, I don't think the contractor could...
• Commented on All-Door Muni Boarding Plan Gets "Warm Reception" From SFMTA Board
  In other words, Muni won't enforce its own rules, so it's giving up on trying. Typical....
• Commented on Tenant Troubles: Landlord Wants To Move His Office In With His Tenants
  Late to the party, but I have my 2¢ to add: A landlord seeking advice from a lawyer who's dedicated to the tenant's cause may not be as foolish as some have said. It seems to me like the landlord...
• Commented on Muni Pushes Ad-Covered (Even the Windows) Buses As Revenue Source
  I've seen window-covering ads on buses and streetcars in the past, so I'm not sure what the hooraw is about. At this point, any source of revenue for Muni is probably a good thing....
• Commented on NAACP: U.S. Airways Response To Passenger With Saggy Pants "racial injustice"
  Nice to see that Amos Brown is still a windbag ready to play the race card whenever convenient. He ignores the point that Marman wasn't arrested for his taste in clothing; he was arrested for battery, resisting arrest and suspicion...
• Commented on Ed Lee Tells You Not To Drink Soda
  Fortunately, I'm from Michigan, so the only time I drink soda is with Scotch. Otherwise, I drink pop....
• Commented on Despite Growing Unrest, Nat Ford's Golden Parachute Is All But Assured
  I don't care where his family lives, but I certainly care where he lives. Does he file taxes in California? Does he put in a full work week in San Francisco, and given the nature of his position, is he...
• Commented on Can Muni Drivers Make You Stow Your Camera Phone?
  I have yet to run into a camera-phobic operator, but I'm surprised that it doesn't happen more often. Since I can only think of a handful of drivers I've encountered in the last 23 years of riding Muni who bothered...
• Commented on SFMTA Roundup: Welcome To Year Zero Of The Post-Nat Ford Era
  Aaron, where did you get the idea that this was a problem in the Sunset Tunnel, which would only have affected the N-Judah? As Paul Rose of SFMTA noted in the comments on the Muni Diaries post, ATCS would have...
• Commented on Charges Of Racism Continue To Fly After Grieving Athlete Arrested For Attempting To Board SFO Plane Wearing Baggy Pants
  Meh, airlines have policies that require "appropriate attire." Plus, FAA regs require that passengers follow the orders of flight crew. Furthermore, the serious charge here isn't the trespassing, or even the fashion crime; it's striking the police officer. For bonus...
• Commented on Doyle Drive Exit Closed Overnight Saturday To Sunday
  DT, they may very well have fiddled with the signs in recent years, but the signs at the toll plaza used to direct people to "25th Ave." (Lincoln Blvd. crosses underneath the plaza, while the actual connection to Lincoln appears...
• Commented on Doyle Drive Exit Closed Overnight Saturday To Sunday
  Hello Eve, For starters, the headline reads "Doyle Drive Closed Overnight Saturday To Sunday" and that's not what's happening. Then we get into the body, where April refers to "the Doyle Drive exit" (which reads as "the exit to Doyle...
• Commented on Doyle Drive Exit Closed Overnight Saturday To Sunday
  The closure is actually the exit from southbound Doyle Drive to Park Presidio Boulevard (Highway 1). Doyle Drive itself remains open, according to the map posted on the Richmond SF blog. Here's the official word: http://www.presidioparkway.org/project_docs/files/overnightrampclosure_june2011.pdf (Not necessarily your fault,...
• Commented on You Can't Buy A New American Car In SF
  April, two things: 1) San Francisco Ford on Van Ness was the successor to S&C Ford; S&C went out of business in late 2007 and was replaced by SF Ford. 2) No matter what the real estate vultures try to...
• Commented on Stores Allegedly Breaking Zip Code Law, Mass Lawsuits Follow
  Hey Eve, California law may allow merchants to ask for ID, but the processors (MasterCard, Visa, etc.) consider it a violation of their terms of service. As I recall, merchants who do this can be fined by the processors, or...