Having read your report card for Supervisor
Wiener (“Good Report
Card for Supervisor Scott Wiener,” October 2012) , I have to
express my
disagreement. Though our supervisor may have done a few
commendable actions
since being elected, he has failed to address the main issue
facing our city:
City Hall’s inability to live within its means and control the
ever-increasing
budget and payroll. Rather, Supervisor Wiener is endlessly
pushing bond
measures, that is borrowing more money, to supposedly maintain
and repair our
parks and streets instead of making the necessary budget
re-allocations.
If our city continues in this direction under the
leadership of
politicians like Supervisor Wiener, the financial crisis
facing City College is
a mere harbinger for the city as a whole.
Bernie Corace
Noe Valley resident
Fire
Stories
Editor:
Thanks for the excellent article in the November
issue by Tim
Innes (“Two Families Rising from the Ashes of Noe Street
Fire”).
Heather Eyrand and family and Doreen King and
family certainly
went through a trying ordeal with fire! However, the loving
support they
received is wonderful and probably continues!
I know we all value our police and fire
department workers, yet
many may not have read Dennis Smith’s 1972 book Report
from Engine Co.
82. Smith is a former New York City fireman—a
classic first book.
Also, I recommend The New Centurions novel
from
1971 by Joseph Wambaugh. Both are memorable and have lasting
value.
Brett Stafford
Post Street
Poem
The sidewalk’s now dry for a change,
Offers mere webs of dark cracks.
Trees’ leaves bright green by streetlight,
Cars’ hoods glisten frail dew…
My dog’s and my footbeats all I can hear,
I turn to return, find all is still so.
The bright bite of Christmas
Once more distracting
From winter’s long night.
All is so still.
—Deetje B.
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