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To the Editor...
Jun. 19‚ 2013
This article is dumb as a box of rocks...Young people have deserted Obama? Who cares, he is not running for an office, and why are you doing these polls? You also talk like the President himself is really sitting in the oval office working on this student's outstanding loan that he will have upon graduation.. Based upon your few interviews,you conducted Young People have deserted the President. I need to do my own poll and see what happens.
This feedback was sent by:Heidi Reeves from Oakland, California
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11495
To the Editor...
Jun. 17‚ 2013
Steven Restivo (Walmart Senior Director) Response to Professor Logan’s piece, “Why California Taxpayers Should Support the Wal-Mart Strikers”
John Logan’s recent opinion regarding Walmart grossly misrepresents the facts. As an educator, the professor is expected to form an argument based on confirmed facts rather than recycled, special-interest talking points and flawed, labor-funded studies. Beyond Chron readers deserve more and they deserve the truth. For example, the worker “strikes” that the Professor wants to promote in these pages are made up almost entirely of representatives from organized labor. The hype leading up to these publicity stunts almost always exceeds the reality on the ground. This was certainly the case at June 7 “strikes” in Sacramento, Fresno, Clovis, Rialto, Modesto and LA. Also, on the issue of public assistance programs, there is zero evidence to support the professor’s claims regarding our associates and the use of food stamps, subsidized housing and child-care, and government health insurance for low-income individuals. Not only are the charges inaccurate, they are insulting.
I guess he feels justified using a recent “report” by the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The document makes vast generalizations based on data from a single state – Wisconsin - and even admits the weakness in its own methodology, stating that “extrapolating taxpayer costs for Wal-Mart stores in other states based on the Wisconsin data is difficult” because Wisconsin has extremely inclusive Medicaid eligibility requirements. The report entirely relies on what has been called an "unlikely scenario" to arrive at its top line conclusion.
In fact, Walmart provides more than 1 million associates and their families with health care plans that provide access to affordable, comprehensive medical coverage. An annual report on average U.S. health care costs from the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2012 Employer Health Benefits Survey confirmed that Walmart’s 2012 health care premiums were below the national average.
Here are a few more facts for the Professor to consider:
• More than 75,000 people choose to work for Walmart in California;
• Our state workforce is mostly full-time;
• Our average hourly full-time wage here is $12.99/hour as of April 30, 2013;
• About 75 percent of Walmart store management teams started as hourly associates, and they earn between $50,000 and $250,000 a year;
• Every year, Walmart promotes about 170,000 people to jobs with more responsibility and higher pay;
• Our benefit plans meet the eligibility and affordability requirements of the Affordable Care Act; and
• Our company’s lowest medical plan is available for about $17 per pay period.
I’d welcome the opportunity to educate Professor Logan on the facts about our company and connect him with one of our many California associates who choose to work at Walmart.
We’re proud of the opportunities we create and the contributions we make.
To the Editor...
Jun. 17‚ 2013
Eric Munn's article, What¹s Really on Trial in George Zimmerman¹s Case?, brings up yet another instance where the media gets to spin the 'truth.' The 14 year-old boy who was recently tackled and strangled by Miami-Dade police because he allegedly gave the officers a 'dehumanizing stare,' will find the same problem with media. I love my country, but we have a lot of work to do before 'justice for all' is in any way a reality. We all must stay informed and that means realizing that much of what is called 'news' is just propaganda.
This feedback was sent by:Debra-Lou Hoffmann from Forest Ranch, CA
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11466
To the Editor...
Jun. 17‚ 2013
...... Lots of memories of the now demolished "Del Web Townhouse" hotel at 8th and Market. It went in around 1959, big hotel with pool, dining room, parking, room service,etc. I worked as a busboy (at 26) in 1976, the year of the Patty Hearst trial. The PATTY HEARST TRIAL jury ate lunch there one afternoon with 4 shotgun wielding sheriff deputies preceding them into the dining room, loudly locking and loading their rifles and standing at attention at each corner of the restaurant. That was 37 years ago!........Trinity properties killed the hotel and turned the 1000 room hotel/motel into dreary transient rentals (no more restaurant). I have to read the Chronicle to see what will be built on the site... Life goes on.... Cheers.... (415) 776-8481.
This feedback was sent by:Tony Rizzi from Frisco, CA
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11460
To the Editor...
Jun. 17‚ 2013
On Tuesday, July 2nd, 4-6pm the AFL-CIO and the California Alliance for Retired Americans will be having an unusual rally at the federal building in San Francisco to PROTECT AND IMPROVE Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Similar rallies will be held in cities throughout the country. Our East Bay Tax the Rich Group is supporting this event.
Our goal is to attract the participation of a sufficient number of concerned persons so that we can form a human chain around the San Francisco Federal Building. The proposal by the Obama Administration to appreciably reduce the cost of living index (CPI) for those on Social Security is called the CHAINED CPI. So the reason for surrounding the building is to form a human chain in opposition to the chained CPI.
Please come, bring your family and friends, and contact others to encourage them to join us.
WHERE: San Francisco Federal Building - 7th and Mission
HOW: Take Bart to Civic Center Station - Walk South
WHEN: Tuesday, July 2nd, 4-6pm.
Harry Brill
To the Editor...
Jun. 14‚ 2013
Thank you for this excellent explanation of the recent SF Condo conversion policy vote in City Hall. The article was precise, informative and clarified much of the fear chatter soundtrack around this issue.
This feedback was sent by:Emerald O'Leary from San Francisco, CA
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11475
To the Editor...
Jun. 14‚ 2013
You forgot the biggest losers in all of this: Those of us who\'s only way to afford owning a home in San Francisco was through a TIC, and now will see our property values crushed by this legislation because we will never be able to condo convert. I live in a 6-unit building of owner occupied units. All of us are here because we love our city and our neighborhood, and this was our only way to buy in. The condo conversion opportunity was not an avenue to a giant profit windfall for us. It was an opportunity to get out of the onerous mortgage rates that come with owning a TIC. Now we will be stuck with those rates, and with a likely plummeting home value to go along with it, because the only people who will ever be able to afford our homes if we are to sell will be those who can pay cash. So congratulations. You're celebrating one more nail in the coffin of the middle class in San Francisco. It will continue to become more of a playground for the very rich (who can afford to pay cash for homes) or those on rent control. What a joke...
This feedback was sent by:Michael Lattig from San Francisco, CA
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11475
To the Editor...
Jun. 14‚ 2013
A very poor interpretation of what happened, we TIC owners will not be able to condo convert because of underhanded trickery by Supervisors Chu and Lee, they inserted a clause saying any legal challenge to the condo conversion legislation will stop all applications. It is inevitable that some one will call their lawyer and say stop the condo conversions and they can because Chu and Lee made sure they could.They didn't have the courage to say no to our (TIC owners) faces, but did it deceitfully in the fine print.
This feedback was sent by:Cole RyanColeR from San Francisco , CA
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11475
To the Editor...
Jun. 14‚ 2013
Excellent piece. I also read Brooks as saying in essence we can't let the Connaughtons of the world have their anecdotal say about the financial crisis and its aftermath unfiltered by establishment media filters applying evidence and analysis to shape what people should think.
This feedback was sent by:Jeff Connaughton from Savannah, GA
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11465
To the Editor...
Jun. 14‚ 2013
Has SFUSD considered 'closing' campuses so students can\'t go leave school grounds during the school day?
This feedback was sent by:Sophie Johnson from San Ramon, California
Link to the article in question: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11462
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