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  • Lois Kazakoff: Who creates the jobs?

    More economists are saying that continuing job losses and moribund job creation will require a second economic stimulus. What they don't agree on is where to create jobs -- in the private sector or in the public sector. Michael Bernick, a former director of the California Employment Development...
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:00pm EST

  • Debra J. Saunders: Lockerbie bomber is still alive

    Angry critics of the Scottish Justice Minister's "compassionate" release of convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on August 20 -- based on the belief that Megrahi was supposed to have less than three months to live -- have been counting the days, to see how accurate the [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:09am EST

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:09am EST

  • Lois Kazakoff: Too few women in the executive suites

    Too few women in the executive suites and boardrooms? How often did I write that story when I was a business writer and editor? Sadly, a new report out of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, suggests little has changed on that front and that California's largest firms have [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:02pm EST

  • Lois Kazakoff: How much do middle skill jobs pay? $50,000

    Well-paid jobs are within reach of many workers in the Bay Area, yet labor and business leaders say there are not enough trained workers to fill the jobs emptying by retiring Baby Boomers. The Chronicle's Nov. 15 Insight section offers a glimpse at the nature of those occupations, what [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:54pm EST

  • Lois Kazakoff: And the next generation

    Californians still think our colleges and universities are valuable institutions but they are worried about the effects of budget cutting and rising tuitions. That's what the Public Policy Institute of California draws from its most recent survey of Californians, which you can read here . The...

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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:09pm EST

  • Lois Kazakoff: The face of globalization

    The clock my brother assembled in the days before he moved to Singapore offers a look at our globalized society in one face. Actually, five faces. The clock sits in his new apartment to help him mentally connect with the time and space where his family members are as he [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:49pm EST

  • Debra J. Saunders: Poor recall

    John Todd from Napa didn't feel a need to check before he wrote the Chronicle, complaining that he did not recall my hitting anti-abortion shooters as terrorists. Apparently does not recall my June 2 column, "Terrorism in Wichita." Maybe it was too subtle. ...

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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:32am EST

  • Lois Kazakoff: Retooling for the new economy

    The lack of workers, not jobs, surprisingly was a running theme through The Chronicle's three symposia on joblessness in the Bay Area. Economists, sociologists and workforce specialists all said the state faces a huge shortage of skilled workers -- a million or more -- as Baby Boomers retire. ...

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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:43pm EST

  • OPEN FORUM: On prostate cancer screening

    By Laura Esserman As cancer surgeons, we witness the fear and anxiety we create when we tell patients that they may have cancer. This fear is understandable, as cancer can be a deadly disease. Choices for therapy can be overwhelming and treatments emotionally and physically taxing. We want to...
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:29pm EST

  • Debra J. Saunders: So how tall is Steve Poizner?

    Because I had asked his staff how tall Poizner is for an Oct. 25 column , I figured I should put myself in the hotseat and ask the Insurance Commissioner myself when I ran into him at the Willie Brown Institute on Politics and Public Policy breakfast this morning: So [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:59pm EST

  • Lois Kazakoff: Is California ungovernable?

    There is certainly a growing sense California is dysfunctional -- and the endless budget debates and water shortages are only symptoms of greater problems. No less than California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George lays out his case in the Sunday Chronicle Insight section to reform the...

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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:43pm EDT

  • The Forgotten War Against Women

    Email this ArticleThe more we learn about the horrible events at Richmond High School's homecoming dance, the worse we feel. Sadly, violence against women isn't going away anytime soon. And in some places it's getting even worse. ...

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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:53pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Message in a bottle

    Shocked. Just shocked. That was the response to the governor's vulgar message (intended or not?) aimed at Assembly member Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, encoded in a veto statement on one of Ammiano's bills. The Chronicle's editorial page has a message for the governor. You can read it here. ...

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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:16pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: UC priorities

    Are athletics overshadowing academics at UC Berkeley? A group of UC profs think so, and are convinced that subsidizing any portion of the intercollegiate athletic program at the public university is misguided. As UC computer science Professor Brian Barsky points out, "It is a myth that...

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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 6:16pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Swine flu is here -- where's the vaccine?

    Protestations from officials over the past week that the H1N1 vaccine will arrive soon is of little comfort to those who've become sickened or those who've been advised to be vaccinated but can't find anyone with vaccine. News reports explain that the virus was identified late in the year (April...[...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:24pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Should the census include a citizenship question?

    The upcoming 2010 census is the latest battleground over immigration. U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., wanted the census to add a citizenship question to its decennial tally of Americans -- our study of who we are and how many of us there are. His goal: to exclude illegal immigrants from [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 5:53pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Time for the U.S. to trim the deficit?

    Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke said in a speech Monday the United States should move to trim its $1.42 trillion federal deficit. The deficit is three times larger this year than last. To do so would mean no second stimulus package -- an idea discussed but with little political support [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 6:50pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: A look at the Bay Area jobs future

    In the second of The Chronicle's symposia on the effect of joblessness on the Bay Area, panelists cautioned us that all is not doom and gloom but that the state and the region's employers need to invest more in retraining. The Bay Area has weathered serious, economy shifting, downturns before [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 7:58pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Do we need school boards?

    That was the question raised during a panel discussion hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group ,and moderated by Chronicle editorial writer Marshall Kilduff, about workforce preparation. In short, California public schools are not producing the workers our economy needs to compete. The...

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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 5:07pm EDT

  • Debra J. Saunders: Eyes on the Prize

    Congratulations to President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. No hit on Obama, who hit the right note in his speech this morning, but the award seems premature. And I suspect the president would have preferred winning the prize further in his tenure. That said, if the Nobel [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:12am EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Decision time on Afghanistan

    Afghanistan -- ramp up the military action against the Taliban, downsize or leave -- is the topic of Thursday's opinion pages. Debra J. Saunders holds President Obama to his campaign promise to "finish the fight" against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Rabbi Michael Lerner cautions readers to tell...

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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:45pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Should health insurance be mandatory?

    As the health care reform debate moves toward a final piece of legislation and a vote, some basic questions remain unanswered. Among them: Should Americans be required to buy health insurance? Auto insurance is mandatory in California, with the idea that maintaining insurance goes along with the...

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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 5:50pm EDT

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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 5:50pm EDT

  • OPEN FORUM: On BART's Oakland Airporter connector

    By Joseph J. Haraburda The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce urges leaders and community members to support the Oakland Airport Connector project. We are appalled that a few politicians would seek to prevent other public agencies from investing in Oakland. Myth: The connector is too...

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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 5:37pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: BART

    Yet another report outlines the discipline and morale problems plaguing the BART Police force. The riding public needs to know the BART board will make addressing these concerns its highest priority, as The Chronicle suggests in its Friday editorial . To read the full report of the National...

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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:55am EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: 'Jobless recovery' is an oxymoron

    At the first of three symposia The Chronicle will host on how joblessness is affecting life in the Bay Area, our panelists Wednesday laid out a few eye-opening facts: -- We've lost a decade of job creation, and essentially have the same number of jobs today that we had' [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 4:10pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Dam debate

    While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will only talk about California water policy if a proposal includes plans for dams, negotiators have agreed to a plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River by 2020. Under the plan negotiated Tuesday, PacifiCorp, a company controlled by Warren Buffett that...

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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 2:00am EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: What are we not asking about health care reform?

    With discussion pivoting around "death panels," government takeovers and entitlements to health care, the national debate is no longer about health care reform.The health care debate is about the economy, said Michael Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush....

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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 4:41pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: ACORN dropping

    The furor over videos produced by two conservative activists filming undercover in an ACORN office resulted in the the House and the Senate voting overwhelmingly to sever federal funding to the community organization that assists the poor. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who has been demonized as one of...

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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 3:41pm EDT

  • Happiness = Growth?

    Our editorial today talks about new ways for countries to measure their economic growth, beyond GDP. The Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress , which includes six Nobel Laureates, spent the last year considering metrics like sustainable environmental policies...

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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: What's more costly: Health care or health care reform?

    Californians worry about the cost of reforming our nation's health care system. At the same time, they know health care insurance premiums are taking a bigger and bigger chunk of their earnings. Here is an idea of how much: A report from Families USA finds that family health care [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:43pm EDT

  • Open Forum: On a deadline for renewable sources of electricity

    By Alan J. Fohrer, CEO of Southern California Edison California legislators are considering a proposal to require 33 percent of the state's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020. Southern California Edison manages the largest portfolio of renewable energy in the United States....

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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 12:30pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Distrust of and Disgust with Sacramento

    A new survey of Californians' attitudes find that 73 percent of those polled say that state government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves. And that was before the story broke about an Assemblymember's sexual antics with a lobbyist. The Public Policy Institute of...[...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 11:00pm EDT

  • Debra J. Saunders: The latest GOP sex scandal

    No doubt, you've already read about GOP Assemblyman Mike Duvall -- now former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, as he had to resign after KCAL-TV aired video of Duvall boasting about his sexual exploits with a lobbyist or two on a hot mike. About the only thing you can say for Duvall' [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 2:50pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Should schoolchildren watch President Obama's speech on Tuesday?

    A planned back-to-school message from President Obama to the nation's schoolchildren has become a lightning rod for controversy after conservative media figures starting calling the speech "indoctrination" to a socialist agenda . Some school districts are allowing parents to keep their children...

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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 5:54pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff:Is it necessary to ration health care?

    As the health care reform debate has rolled along, those who oppose the reforms again have raised the argument that ObamaCare seeks to ration health care. The genesis of the furor over "death panels" emerged from that charge. The response on the left is that health care is already [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 5:25pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Was 'Cash for Clunkers' worth the investment?

    The "Clunker" program wrapped up Monday with 700,000 new vehicles sold, the Toyota Corolla winning the contest for most loved, and a long line of Cadillac Escalades, Ford Explorers and other gas-guzzling behemoths heading for the scrap yard. Other than cleaning our garages and driveways, what did...

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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:55pm EDT

  • Open Forum: Hadley Roff

    The Potomac River splashed like bright silver through the tall, dark trees downward from Sen.Edward M. Kennedy's home in McLean, Va., on that troubled Sunday almost 36 years ago. The evening before, the "Saturday Night Massacre" rocked the nation. President Richard M. Nixon's Justice...

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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 6:48pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: On Ted Kennedy

    Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be remembered not only for his remarkable portfolio of accomplishment as a senator of 46 years, but also for his personal and political perseverance in a life consumed with great burden and high drama. He was the patriarch of a family that was endowed [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 2:24pm EDT

  • Debra J. Saunders: The Lockerbie outrage

    Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill called the decision to release terrorist Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi "compassionate." Megrahi, reported to have terminal prostate cancer, was convicted in the 1988 pre-Christmas bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, killing all 259...

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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 4:14pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Beyond Health Care Reform

    Chronicle writer Carolyn Lochhead's Sunday article on how obesity is sinking the American health care system suggests that health care reform is going to have to address a lot more than whether we have a public option or not. Improving Americans' health will have to address how we choose to [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 6:50pm EDT

  • OPEN FORUM: California needs health care reform

    By Michael Honda If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ill prepared to say it, then I'll say it for him: California is in a state of emergency. As the state struggles to stabilize its budget and as health care concerns now tear at the fabric of our community, with town' [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 9:40pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Candlestick Park land swap

    If you have ever visited Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, you know it is a poor excuse for a park. Doubly egregious is that the park's neighbors would appreciate and benefit from well-maintained park facilities in their backyard. That's why Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and others have offered...

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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 5:23pm EDT

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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 5:23pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Ask the candidates for Congressional District 10

    We want to know your questions for the candidates for the 10th Congressional District and will ask them in our editorial board meetings with the candidates Tuesday, Aug. 11, and Thursday, Aug. 13. We'll video the candidate responses to your questions and post them on SFGate.com. We're most...
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 6:42pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: What do you want to know about health care reform?

    As Congress wrestles with the U.S. health care policy, it's important to remember it's early in the game.Congress is not crafting a Canadian plan or a European plan. It is working out the rules of an American plan, and that suggests it will be a variation, not a wholesale change, [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 6:08pm EDT

  • CLIMATE POLITICS: Tax or Trade?

    Email this ArticleReaders "chatted" with Elaine C. Kamarck about the politics of climate change today, focusing on how the United States brings about reductions in greenhouse gases -- with a carbon tax or trading pollution credits. Read the transcript here ....

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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 1:37pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Politics, Profits and Climate Change

    Proft comes before saving the planet? Really? That's how it would appear from Open Forum writer Robert Collier who says the clean technology industry and now the entire House of Representatives would rather protect patents and profits than work to address global warming through sharing...

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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 7:42pm EDT

  • Lois Kazakoff: Gates' caller never mentioned race

    The commentary over the July 16 arrest of Harvard University professor Henry "Skip" Louis Gates Jr. after a caller alerted the Cambridge, Mass., police, has swept across the nation like a tidal wave. President Obama reignited the controversy when he referred to the Cambridge Police Department's...

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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 1:41pm EDT
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