Dodge-em time at City Hall
The City Council squirms and delays on the issue of the anti-tunnel referendum, since now is the time when challengers to incumbents must rise or fall.
The City Council squirms and delays on the issue of the anti-tunnel referendum, since now is the time when challengers to incumbents must rise or fall.
An Elway poll of city voters says that his numbers are negative by a ratio of more than 2-to-1. Even tunnel opponents aren't giving him good marks overall.
Two political problems this good idea faces: getting carpoolers to pay for express lanes, since they now ride free; and finding the political staying power to let an innovative idea prove itself.
There are challenges to creating the 'next' Silicon Valley, but also to keeping the current one vital. In the Bay Area, one ray of hope is offered by a former Naval Air Station (think Magnuson Park on steroids), and a proposed Expo could bring all the pieces together.
With crises ongoing in Libya, Japan, and the halls of government here at home, it's hard for the rational mind to embrace the perennial season of hope.