The Mayor's Quake Insurance Program

"Policy" -- it's a word the mayor's office uses ad nauseam in bogus inner-city press events, in the PowerPoint presentations of patronage-appointee department heads, in defending muddled policies such as "Care Not Cash." In this case, however, a Newsom underling is using this word in a novel way. He's describing a policy in which the mayor has decided to expend political capital to make San Francisco a safer place to live.

I hope he weathers the coming storm.