What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime.
First in a two-part special report
Years of reckless borrowing have sent the city's Redevelopment Agency spiraling into debt. Mayor Brown's pet projects may flush it down the drain entirely.
Do you like sleeping, eating, shopping, reading, TV watching, Internet surfing, large amounts of overtime pay, and small amounts of actual work? You may have a future as a dispatcher for the San Francisco Fire Department.
For 25 years, Harvey Ross has rooted out the waste and lies of politicians and bureaucrats. But some say he's too lost in the line items to see the big picture
Jim HerdMore good news for Muni...This morning, the Chronicle reported that the city's budget analyst, Harvey Rose, released yet another damning report on Muni -- and this only hours before the Supes meet to determine -- this time, definitely! -- if they'll approve the Municipal Transportation Agency's budget. The report runs to 100 pages -- and, sadly, it isn't on the budget analyst's Web site, so we haven't read it. But, based upon reporter Marisa Lagos' summary, it appears Rose has more astut
Imagine, if you will, that Supervisor Chris Daly is Police Chief Martin Brody. We'll let you figure out who, in this analogy, the toothy fellow behind him is. Examples of Chris Daly behaving boorishly in the Board of Supervisors' chambers and embarrassing even his friends are as myriad as instances of folks in Daly's district behaving boorishly on the streets of the Tenderloin and embarrassing their friends. So when the District 6 supe publicly berated his pal and protege Supervisor John A
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