we had a conversation about the chronicle. it was threatening to close, saying it was losing $1 million a week. you have made massive cuts since then. how has that affected the quality of your coverage? >> one of the thing that is exciting is that people are so passionate about news, about the chronicle, a number of people we employ. one area where we trimmed a lot of jobs in a lot of different areas of the operation, including the news room, and it is not always about the quantity of people you employ of the quality of the product in the information you put on the pages day in, day out. that is the most important thing. is the quality there on a daily basis? i look back over the last couple of years. i have only been here about a year-and-a-half, but i have been very familiar with the chronicle. i might be biased, but i think is better now than it was a few years ago. we are doing that on a more efficient basis then we did before. i do not think it is always about the tonnage, but it is about the quality. i think we are doing

the panel last night, it looks like there is no after the chronicle, so congratulations. we were talking about how people to get them to eat their broccoli with their ice-cream. reading city hall coverage with subway breakfasts. can you talk about ways you are experimenting with getting people to eat them both? making it palatable? concrete experiments that you will try? >> that will -- that sounds terrible. [laughter] >> maybe we can have broccoli with cheese? i do not think that there is a simple answer. i think that people come to read various news sources. there will be multiple sources. some for

a report in today's "chronicle" has revealed that state lawmakers in california have a unique perk. they are spending thousands of dollars each year taxpayer money on state issued unlimited gas cards. it's a perk that's unique to california. last year, california tax dollars covered more than $200,000 in gas credit card bills for the assembly and nearly $90,000 for the state senate according to documents requested by the "chronicle." that amount may be small compared to california's $25 billion deficit. but this spending is happening at a time when cuts are being made across the board including those to programs for the poor and the elderly. legislators can fill up their cars or have them maintained with the state-issued cards that are supposed to be used for legislative purposes only but there is no limit on these credit cards. in 2010, the top three gas spenders in the assembly were jim neilson of tahama county spending more than $10,000, isidore hall of los angeles county spending more than about $6,700, dan logue of yuba county spending about $6,400 and in the senate, dean flore

front page photo caption, san francisco chronicle june 14, 2005.fter the bleeding the blood spattered walls draw the gaze of children wanting to see what has caused such a noise. how can they not stair. arms and legs, pieces of torso scattered, the smell of new death and feared hair. they must be asking the same question. a person who blows themselves up must believe in something. must believe in something or else not. hopelessness degreesed in apnigzs, righteousness disguised in a tuxedo of death much the children don't understand. i being of the dead dying man the bleeding bystanders who left to buy cheese or tobacco. in car bombs suicide bombs and we keep talking as though this will end like the final judgment of that black man who looks white and sleeps with boys but doesn't touch them. after the bleeding the children's shoes will be forever stained in the crimson color of death. who will set the doves free then. >> the next is sdaefrt on the horizon. i'm sure many of you have seen or heard regularly in the news. my father came from iran so eve

joining me tonight on our news panel are jill tucker, education writer for the "san francisco chronicle sarah varney, reporter with kqed

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the chronicle really needs a historian on board. the historic preservation commission needs an academic historian or a full-time historian. someone who has dedicated their professional career to that. that is a requirement. i urge you that in this nomination, you're rejecting someone who continues to serve our interested in the city. our tourist industry is very much a blank. -- linked. [chime] >> good afternoon, supervisors. in the city of san francisco, we have so many boards and commissions. there are no qualifications required to give back to the city. the historic preservation commission is very different. there are explicit qualifications except for the seat that is the general seat. this seat number four has some very specific qualifications. when i looked at the citadel, there was not one word -- at the resume of mr. johns, there was not one word of his dedication outside his law practice. that is not requested. i hope you will not appoint him. thank you. >> welcome to you. i'm a member of the san francisco preservation cons

that's chronicles, man. that's an amazing book. the only problem was that there was too little of it, and as lovingly preserved by the folklorists, the universe still felt cut off from the present. quote again, it was out of date, had no proper connection to the actualities, the trends of the time. it was a huge story but hard to come across. but once he had read the history, the gap closed. what had once felt real but antique now was the underground store of the day as he would relate it in songs he was now ready to write, a mere imitator no more. the more he thought about it, the more the parallel universe was really real and completely visible. in fact, it was all around him. on seventh avenue where he passed a building where walt whitman had lived and worked, printing away and singing the true song of his soul is how dylan puts it. and on third street where he stared mournfully up at the win toes of edgar allen poe's house. the songs were no longer an escape from conformist reality, but reality itself. quote, if someone were to

"the chronicle" reports buses, trains and c >>> the muni board's on-time performance has been slippingitting a record 75% in the first three months of last year. the "chronicle" reports buses, trains and cable cars showed up on time only 72% of the time last summer. the goal set by san francisco voters is 85%. >>> a northern california student giving us all a lesson in the power of the dollar. nick ramos just paid his university of colorado tuition for the semester and get this, he did it in cash. 14,309 worth all in one dollar bills. the sophomore from sacramento says he did it to make a statement about the cost of education. >> then i lifted the duffel bag up and they just all kind of gathered around and just couldn't even believe it. so it was quite a sight. and they said that no one had ever paid in ones before since he is from california, ramos had to pay the higher out of state tuition rate. in state tuition is about $7,000. that's still a bundle. >>> a new study shows beauty and brains go hand in hand. >> researchers at the london school of economics found strong ties between in

commissioner antonini: many of you may have noticed in the "chronicle" yesterday an article about a group that was kind of objecting to a policy that is being considered, which is, i guess, discouraging additional building near dense areas, which may be sources of pollution by freeways, by other areas, which is sort of counter intuitive, and sort of the reverse, as he pointed out quite well. sort of an anti-grain policy. this is under discussion at the present time, but i have seen this brought up a couple of times where we have to really look, and there could be evaluations of the air quality near any new building going on, and using this as an evaluator on the approval, and i think he may be jumping a little bit ahead, but it seems to me it is not environmental to build dense housing and new housing further and further away from populated areas and increasing commutes, increasing pollution. i was glad to hear that somebody kind of picked up on that. second, i was very unhappy to hear about state compensation insurance fund is apparently moving in number of their employees out of san fra

. >> what about the chronicle right now? reducing $1 million per week, what does that look like right now? >> thank goodness we are not losing $1 million per week today. i am happy to say that. to give you an idea, fourth quarter of last year, in the toughest economic times of this country that we have seen since the great depression, it was a record quarter for us for the decade. now, the bar was awfully low, but it was a profitable quarter. started out at the beginning of the year, in this type of environment, not making money today. but we are on our budget and on our plan. the last six months of the year looked to be a strong revenue environment for us. we think we will be fine overall for the year. >> we have gone over our time a little bit. one last question. >> this is for mr. frazier. the panel last night, it looks like there is no after the chronicle, so congratulations. we were talking about how people to get them to eat their broccoli with their ice-cream. reading city hall coverage with subway breakfasts. can you

a report in today's "san francisco chronicle" reveals that california lawmakers have individually been spending thousands of dollars each year with state-issued no-limit gas cards. it's a perk that lawmakers and the rest of the country don't have. last year california tax dollars paid for more than $200,000 in gas credit card bills for the assembly and nearly $90,000 for the state senate according to documents requested by the "chronicle." that amount may be small compared to california's $25 billion deficit. but this spending is happening at a time when cuts are being made across the board including those to programs for the poor and the elderly. legislators can fill up their cars or have them maintained with the state-issued cards that are supposed to be used for legislative purposes only but there is no limit on these credit cards. in 2010, the top three gas spenders in the assembly were jim neilson of tahama county spending more than $10,000, isidore hall of los angeles county spending more than about $6,700, dan logue of yuba county spending about $6,400 and in the senate, dean fl

congressional chronicle at c- span.org/congress. >> in a few moments, house leaders discussed next week's agenda includes proposed cuts and federalist -- cuts in federal spending. "washington journal" is live at 7:00. we will be live at 11:30 eastern with a news conference uon the house democrats retreat in cambridge, maryland. then the u.s. conference of mayors. we'll hear from secretary john donovan and trade representative ron kirk. a couple of live events to tell you about today. house democrats are meeting in cambridge, maryland. we will have the news conference at 11:30 a.m. eastern. shortly after that at 12:15 p.m. eastern, more from the annual winter meeting of the u.s. conference of mayors. >> madam speaker, the president of the united states. >> by congressional invitation, the president outlines his legislative agenda for the next year and reflects on the previous in the annual state of the union. watch at the c-span feel library, all searchable on your computer -- the c-span video library, all searchable on your computer any time. you're watching c-span, bringing you public se

put an ad in the chronicle or announce it. that is one. the one, the chronicle and other english papers, i think because they have new reporters that don't understand the context of immigration and the complexities, they go on and on stererotyping latinos unfairly and unwarranted. i would like this commission to call them or send a letter. that is what i think a lot of the spanish speaking people want from you to feel that you are there. and the last thing i want to say, and i want to say this with a lot of respect. and i do respect this commission. i so appreciate all of your testimony, but i am going to cry, and so too with my other meap friend because we didn't see any many testimony. hundreds of thousands of mexicans have been affected by these laws. mexicans, and others are affected. they are from latin america. representation is so key. that doesn't invalidate any of your stories. on the contrary, it makes us unified. whether it was logistics, or whether no mexican was available or whatever, but they are not here. so i really -- but

it was a column in the "chronicle" about our budget, which you are going to hear more about. we've been saying for two years now that we believe that this department needs dedicated, sustainable funding. we continue to work with our park advocacy groups, are council of san francisco parks trust, and we continue to work internally within city government to explore different ideas and advocate for different ideas for this department. you will hear more about this in a little bit, but while we think because of some of the difficult choices that this commission made last year, we are better positioned for this budget cycle than last year. so that is good news. but the structural challenges in our department were made, and as far as i can tell, and i'm reading the same stories that you are, is the city's budget challenges are somewhat structural, too, as are the state of california's, and they will be with us for a long time, so we need to continue to fight an advocate for resources for this department. >> we are now on item 5, the consent calendar. is there any public comment und

she told the san francisco chronicle it was so bad she picked up the phone and called the president ofg&e himself. 38 homes were destroyed in that fire. eight people died. speier said pg&e can't even find the records of a third of their pipelines in populated areas. testing the lines can cost anywhere from $125,000 to $500,000 a mile. speier says she wants them tested, it has to be done because this can't happen again. live in san bruno, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> thank you very much. 5:03 now. likely to be standing room only for a key vote today in the golden gate bridge board of directors. the board will decide today whether to switch to a new toll system that takes humans completely out of the equation. terry mcsweeney is live at the golden gate bridge. >> yeah, the full board of directors are going to be voting on the proposal today. yesterday the finance committee voted and they voted 8-3 to bring in all electronic toll-taking and get rid of the human touch out here. i guess the writing is on the wall or on the bridge at this case. take a look who will be going away. 32 toll t

. >> jackie speier told the san francisco chronicle that pg&e doesn't know what's underground.obviously that's alarming for san bruno residents who hear but that has consequences for the entire state. jackie speier now wants pg&e to do pressure tests on all the utility's pipes in the state that has parts from the company that made the pipes that exploded in september. these got to see the pipe in washington. she said the flaws in the pipes were so obvious, it was astonishing. she told the san francisco chronicle it was so bad she picked up the phone and called the president of pg&e. 38 homes were destroyed in that fire in september and 8 people died. as speier, pg&e can't even find the records of one-third of its pipelines in this populated area. it is expensive. it can cost $125,000 to $500,000 per mile per pipe. >> amy, thanks a lot. 6:16. three of the state's largest health insurers are delaying rate increases for 60 days after being asked to do so by state insurance commissioner dave jones. aetna and anthem blue cross and pacific care are putting raises on hold. it will rai

this morning the san francisco chronicle with pay study released today.ked at heart-related deaths after the 1980 super bowl when the l.a. rams lost a close super bowl to the pittsburgh steelers. they found 15% more people in l.a. died in the two-week period after the game than in the same period in years where the rams were not in the super bowl. cardiologists compared the heart become of watching an exciting super bowl to running a marathon. >> all right. plus the fatty foods and beer. >> that's also in the chronicle this morning. >> vegetably sticks. >> oh, yeah. not coming to your party. (laughter) >> the north bay atm at a major bank now says we're the target of identity thieves. what you need to look for the next time you use the atm. >> there was a shooting last night in the heart of one of san francisco's most popular tourist mary! hey! wow, you look great! thanks! it's this new wish yourself thin program. i just wish it and it happens. it's probably those fiber one bars you're eating. i know they help me stick to my diet. the bars are 90 calories

but had the "chronicle" reports that was down to 72% last summer. city voters approved prop e in 1999 setting an 85% on time goal that has never been reached. >>> a jump in tax refunds and the end of the line for a famous chocolate factory. here's alexis christoforous with this morning's moneywatch report. >>> reporter: taxpayers got a 5% bigger refund last year, about $3,000 on average. that's the biggest jump in years thanks in part to several tax credits that were part of the american recovery and reinvestment act. one of those the home buyer tax credit gave buyers up to $8,000 for purchasing a home. it was expanded last year include more taxpayers. this is a big week for corporate earnings. expect reports from apple, citigroup, delta, ibm and ebay. last week strong profits from jpmorgan chase and intel pushed stocks higher. the dow rose 55 points while the nasdaq climbed 20. we'll see how well the housing market is doing with reports this week on home construction and existing home sales. wall street will also get fresh figures on weekly jobless

"congressional chronicle." it's washington your way. >> this week on "the communicators," a look at potential telecommunications and technology policy in the 112th congress. our guests are former hill staffers. >> well, with the new congress in place and new leadership in power, we thought we'd take this opportunity on "the communicators" to look at telecommunications policy and the 112th congress. joining us are two former congressional staff members, trisha pauletta was a majority counsel in the house of representatives for the republicans in the 1990's, and katherine mccullough was the former senate commerce counsel on the democratic side. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. joining us also is julianna grunwald, dale low dose he hadtor of the national journal. katherine, if i can start with you. you wrote in a recent blog in comlaw.com, that you look for two things -- a high degree of activity on telecommunications policy in the upcoming congress, and a high degree of cooperation. why did you writ

she told the "chronicle" that the journal did not include the fact that she is retreated from hard-line parenting methods discussed in her book. >>> a trip to mexico or canada could soon be cheaper for travelers flying out of san francisco. san francisco international airport is proposing to charge airlines flying to and from those countries domestic operating fees instead of international. the san francisco airport commission will put it to a vote today. airport officials say the idea is that lower rates will attract more international carriers and hopefully lower prices for passengers. >>> it is 6:21. signs, marches and walkouts, all sign of a tuition protest. how one student took action using dollar bills. >>> and let the countdown begin. the prize for the lucky more than downloads the 10 billionth app for apple. ,,,,,,,,,,,, the next, you start one feeling a bit off.ne. the moment you feel run down or achy, nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip it in the bud. >>> good morning from the traffic center. in

. >>> in another development, a bay area congresswoman tells the "san francisco chronicle," pg&e can't find records to back up pressure levels for large sections of pipe. congresswoman jackie speier says pg&e's president told her that the utility is unable to produce documents on manufacturing and installation for 30% of its pipelines in and around urban areas. speier is concerned about faulty welds like the one blamed for the explosion in san bruno. >>> time now 6:04. get another check of weather and traffic. a lot of our cameras are showing a lot of thick fog out there, robert. >> there is significant fog in the area even at the coast. fog inland has triggered a fog advisory in effect through 10 a.m. for the north and east bay valley, carquinez strait and the delta. like the past 48 hours, it's reduced visible to a quarter mile and because we see a storm off the coast, we are seeing fog at the coast and a dramatic temperature reduction. 69 the high yesterday in san jose, today 66 the expected high. warm yesterday at half moon bay, a 6-degree drop today. we'll see dropping temperature

rachel gordon, city hall reporter with the "san francisco chronicle." and wyatt buchanan, sacramento bureau reporter, also with "the chronicle." and josh richman, legal call affairs reporter with "the oakland tribune." how is california so far ahead of other states in implementing president obama's health care bill? >> we had a governor, former republican governor, who was very supportive of it. even before this new administration came to power, california was kind of ahead of the curve on this. former governor schwarzenegger signed legislation authorizing a -- the creation of a health care exchange, which is basically a state-run marketplace where unemployed californians will be able to get insurance. he appointed two relatively moderate people to it who are very likely to want to stay the course with the law as it was enacted. we actually got a little bit ahead of the curve even further yet by cracking down on insurance companies that didn't react well to the immediate mandate that they not deny insurance to children with preexisting conditions. we ba

san francisco chronicle reports pg&e raise the pressure to 400 lbs. per square inch for two hours december 9, 2008. experts told the chronicle the increased to could have placed a strain on the pipeline and made it more vulnerable. the company said it was " a very safe level " it leveled 38 homes and killed eight people. a man in oakland was shot on the avenue lost nine officers got to the scene 10:00 p.m. last night he was suffering from gunshot one he was taken to hospital in critical condition. police have made no arrests. police looking for me at suspect in the east oakland few shots saturday. the teenager was walking to the supermarket was somebody shot his son in the parking lot. it was a sophomore and his dad says he had plans to attend college. >> christopher jones will be buried. he was the last homicide of 2010, he was killed by the drive-by shooting near year's eve. this is video yesterday of family and friends honoring him. friends and family say he was a good student, french,. amanda found in a sports utility vehicle sunday morning is con