there is no actual controversy, closed Market is a colossal city crushing failure

a "goodly sum" forsooth, an amount beyond counting

10,500 people signed the recall petition while he only got 13,643 votes when he won the regular election by a whisker with < 51% -- a large number of whom are now backing the recall -- it's not possible for him to find enough votes in a special election

well you may already know this but he was the jury consultant for her trial against the Texas cattle industry, which is where she was so impressed by him -- jury consultants by definition only tell you which way they think the wind is blowing in a particular venue

but but but Dr. Phil told Bill Maher that was bullshit and he saw the files of the people he helped kidnap and they all had been charged with 13 or 14 pedophile crimes, I mean he was shown the files as a credentialed doctor of jury science & what he says sounds very credible

I was there the other day, I think there were four kids, maybe. The whole facility at India Basin Waterfront is gorgeous and hugely underutilized

tbh it's a painful reminder of why she should never have been picked to be the Vice President to begin with -- I've voted for her several times, each as the least bad alternative -- thank goodness we're going to have a chance to move away from identity as the prime qualification & to fresh faces

mentioning where it is would be helpful to most people

you should do a piece on the demographics of the subscriber/patron base for the symphony, opera and ballet -- the symphony has to be a median age of 70+ -- & how they are planning for the future

hard to reconcile the breezy casualness of this piece & its pragmatic approach to the "reviewer's role" with your intense, troubled ruminations after talking to Thomas Keller, a gentleman & giant of the industry, without reflecting on you, your ego & personality more than one should need to

it's better but the reality remains that if you walk up Taylor after a show to go to a bar or restaurant you walk a gauntlet of zombies using drugs, much of the audience at shows is scared and tries to get out of Dodge as fast as they can

the piece is clearly the result of PR by the semi-ex-wife's lawyers & presents only one point of view, which is a remarkable editorial choice given that the defendants just won an arbitration saying they were the rightful owners, as it mentions -- kind of a journalistic reason to wait a sec

neither of those labels has any meaning in this situation except to people who don't live there and who don't have a vote

The headline is misleading, it hasn't "failed," it changed.

Encouraging to see a realistic, rational approach based on a better sense of the problem & resources.

Shocking sometimes to hear how little the city knows about its own work.

Embarrassing you never heard of the Dept. of Adult Probation!

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either he is more tone deaf than one would ever imagine or he has given up