Fresh start on parole policy
GOV. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger has shown a welcome willingness to accept decisions made by the California Board of Prison Terms, which approves parole for only 1 percent of eligible...
Are we leading up to bid for tax hike? Editor -- I wondered when The Chronicle would, yet again, editorialize in favor of tax increases on Californians as a solution to our fina... more reader opinions
AIDS cure demands private, federal funding
Who would have thought back in 1984, when Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced HIV as the probable cause of AIDS and that a vaccine should be ready in ...
China's emerging environmental consciousness
While Congress was debating last month an energy bill stripped of provisions to raise fuel-efficiency standards for sport utility vehicles, the Chinese government announced fuel...
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Ken Garcia
You say you want a revolution?
SUPERVISOR Matt Gonzalez says he wants to wage an ideological campaign for San Francisco against Gavin Newsom, which makes sense, because radical reform has been a cornerstone o...
More from Chronicle columnists: Ken Garcia, Ruth Rosen,
Joan Ryan, Debra Saunders.
 Syndicated Columnists
Notes from Reader Rep Dick Rogers
Mark Morford
Be Thankful You're Not Dubya
Craving more juicy reasons to offer up profound gratitude this T-day? Try a few of these ...
Harley Sorensen
Talking Turkey About The Bush Bros.
Eat your heart out, Ronald Reagan! George W. Bush has made you look like a rank amateur. ...
Emil Guillermo
Arnold's Unbecoming Xenophobia
His first full 24 hours as governor aren't even over, but already I can see the epitaph for the Ah-nuld administration. ...
Jennifer Nelson
Burton's Spite Won't Solve Workers' Comp
California's new governor and the Democrat-controlled state Legislature are headed for a major fight over workers' compensation reform ...
Adam Sparks
You Know You're In San Francisco When ...
The first monarch in the United States -- Norton I, emperor of the United States and protector of Mexico -- was crowned in San Francisco in 1859....
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Sunday, November 30, 2003 Edition
Computer illogic
Despite great promise, technology is dumbing down the classroom
Todd Oppenheimer
This past year, as San Francisco school officials were dealing with budget cuts by laying off teachers and librarians and closing school libraries, spending on city schools was ...
No exit from Iraq for America's market men
Orville Schell
The Bush administration has brought the notion of the "marketization" of American life to heights unequaled in history. With former (and probably future) business executives and...
Why Johnny, Shakela and Jose can't read
Schools are rat traps, home is a rescue mission, funerals abound
Jean Baker
I've spent the past few months teaching English Intervention in one of Richmond's inner-city schools, the lowest income per capita school district in the Bay Area. Since arrivin...
BITES
Good move By Eduard Shevardnadze, who quit as president of Georgia. The former Gorbachev aide couldn't bring perestroika to the provinces. Bad move By Gavin Newsom, who made a d...
CHRON QUIZ
We're No. 1
Marshall Kilduff
Pick one: 1 San Francisco leads the nation in what? A. Sales of opera tickets B. Syphilis C. Thai restaurants D. Green Party members 2 Winter smog is so bad in the Central Valle...
COMMERCE
We're the Big Losers in the Waiting Game / Stealing the time of our lives minute by minute
Norman Solomon
One of the worst things about today's ultramodern systems of communication is hiding in plain sight: They waste our time. Sure, gizmos like computers and cell phones and pagers ...
PAPER TIGERS
From Mediocrity to Medical Miracles to Managed News to Murder
TWO CENTS
Are you tired of Arnold yet?
ADMISSIONS
Who Gets In, Who Gets Left Out / UC's bias against out-of-staters
Pamela Burdman
UC Regent John Moores has been hearing from parents in one of San Diego's toniest neighborhoods. Their kids aren't getting admitted to UC Berkeley, and he wants to know why. In ...
GAY RIGHTS
Toward a More Perfect Union / Just don't call it 'marriage'
Dave Ford
It is tempting to think that the recent Massachusetts Supreme Court decision affording legal protections to lesbian and gay relationships means the gay community should push eve...
PAST AS PROLOGUE
This Isn't Your Father's War, and Yet . . . / Iraq's chilling echoes of Vietnam
Gordon Livingston
I remember the moment when I knew we were going to lose the war in Vietnam. Frustrated by our inability to find the elusive Viet Cong, the United States had developed a top-secr...
PAST AS PROLOGUE
This Isn't Your Father's War, and Yet . . . / War's 5-step transformation: From 'can-do' to 'get me out of here'
Frank McCulloch
It was during the spring of 1965, and the bright, crew-cut and energetic young USAID worker had just arrived in South Vietnam. At the end of his second day, he was bursting with...
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