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Re: “Activists Try to Get Rid of Juvenile Records Fee”
Why should a juvenile's records be sealed? Drive around with a gun... or steal an iPhone... and get away with it? I can't think of a policy that encourages juvenile crime more. I'm guessing this is one of the reasons that older gang members can recruit juveniles to sell their drugs and do other types of illegal activities.
Re: “Do Disabled Motorists Need Free Parking?”
What's so crazy about this is that we can have access and still collect for parking. Most disabled people need access to parking spots close to where they are going but they can afford to pay to park. So why not have disabled spots but not have them be free? Isn't this obvious?
Re: “Do Disabled Motorists Need Free Parking?”
The whole idea is to allow a disabled person enough time to function... feeding a meter defeats the whole purpose of the permit. Punish the people committing fraud if it is prevalent not the disabled. If more revenue is the goal then the answer might be to charge for the permits.
Re: “Do Disabled Motorists Need Free Parking?”
I second Mr. Chambers here. Some of us heart patients look visibly well on the outside but need to be close and need the access. What I resent is going into say the Safeway on 51st and seeing the meter guy in a city car in a disabled space!!This has happened on several occasions. I complained to the parking authority as this dude is obviously healthy and he is driving a parking enforcement vehicle and haas his own standard
Re: “Do Disabled Motorists Need Free Parking?”
I am a disabled person in a wheelchair. When I am not getting out of the car, my husband does not park in the handicap spots. So while he is in the store I get to watch at least 50% of people parking in the handicap spots literally jump out of their cars and run in to the store. There is alot of abuse out there! It infuriates me! These people should be happy that they can walk. It's pure greed and laziness! What are they teaching their kids? I agree we should pay for parking. If we are parking a vehicle, parking should be paid.
Re: “Watch Jerry Brown Tell the Feds to "Change the [Marijuana] Policy Now" on CNN”
It's sheer stupidity to keep up this pot war...But, more than that, it required a Constitutional Amendment to institute Prohibition for alcohol and then another to repeal it. If the Federal Government thinks it has the right to overrule the rights of States to handle that which is not particularly granted to the Federal Government, why then is there no Constitutional Amendment giving the Federal Govt the right to pursue marijuana use as there was for alcohol?
Re: “Assemble Offers a Timid Salute to American History”
Their pastry chef, I think her name is Debbie, makes an incredible apple and berry strudel. Served a la mode with vanilla ice-cream it is 'to die for'.
Re: “Sounding the Alarm”
"However, it remains to be seen whether Sacramento will find the money to build it in time."
No, Sacramento would rather waste money on a Bullet train to nowhere.
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
i thought landlords were threatened and won against the Hag in the Harborside case
Re: “Do Disabled Motorists Need Free Parking?”
Today between 20th and Broadway and 23rd and Webster 90% of the vehicles parked on the street had placards... and there were almost no spaces available.
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
Haag - What an appropriate name!
Pretty much says it all but with one too many a's - HAG Save the over A for her ASS where her head is stuck. Sure sorry she is nit an elected official. Obviously not elected.
SHAME ON YOU OBAMA, SHAME ON YOU!! - You look like quite the "conservative asshole" & play the part very well. LIE, LIE, LIER
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
Is it just me, or is Melinda Haag uglier than Ellen Barrkin?
Re: “Do Disabled Motorists Need Free Parking?”
Wow. Talk about a bizarre, misplaced agenda by this reporter. Confront disabled people over their use of placards? Based on what? That they should have a limp or be missing a limb?
People get placards for reasons that might not be obvious visibly, such as a heart ailment or recovering from cancer treatment and being unable to walk long distances. What type of jerk gets in the face of these people?
Over possibly $150,000 in lost revenue for year? That's possibly $17 per hour of lost revenue. Lets go abuse people for that princely sum!
If this reporter thought about all sides of the story, instead of failing to question this bitter notion by some drivers that disabled people are getting away with something, he would have questioned some of the awful confrontations this story advocates for.
What's next? Go yell at the homeless guy in the soup line because he doesn't look starving to you?!
Re: “A New Venue for Death Metal”
This place is so poorly managed i dont think it will ever reach half of it potential under its current ownership
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
DEA thugs , are once again "declaring war", wherever they can seize assets.
I don't think that there is any downside, in their positions with the DEA when they are overly aggressive and violate our rights as citizens, business people or property owners.
We now live in a police state wherein the DEA is the attack dog.
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
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Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
This extortionist is an imminent threat to our lives and liberties. Strip her of her citizenship and expel her from our country!
Re: “Breaking News: San Jose Dispensary Landlords Threatened with 40 Years in Prison as Feds' Marijuana Crackdown Continues”
Pretty prompt display of the sincerity Obama/Holder invested in their "new and improved" approach to the war on drugs, isn't it? :-(
Re: “Do Disabled Motorists Need Free Parking?”
So . . . in order to deter the able-bodied who commit fraud, punish the truly physically impaired who actually need and have legally obtained disability parking placards? Way to go! Hey, let's take away food aid from starving folks, too, since sometimes people who don't need Food Stamps steal them! And wasn't there just some big scandal in MediCare or MediCal where fake billing was uncovered? No more healthcare for the verifiably sick or disabled!
This has the reek of yet another effort to balance the budget on the necks of the poor and disabled. I suspect the Quan administration would rather collect money from those of us who are disabled than put a little muscle into cracking down on fraud. Increased fines for illegal placard use would be a real and far more effective deterrent to corruption, and add more to the budget than picking the pockets of the disabled.
Incidentally, why do people with placards need free parking? Because some of us can't make extra trips back and forth from our destination to our parking spot to feed the meter. Because medical appointments can run hours late. Because depending on one's disability, everything can take longer. Because many of us are on a fixed income precisely because we are disabled/because being disabled enough to qualify for a placard often means one can't work full time.