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Bridge: Dec. 25, 2017

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DAILY BRIDGE CLUB For release 12/25/17HEADLINES ONLY

Letter: Will we finally see our roads repaired?

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California is raising taxes on gasoline purchases to fund road repairs. An average family will pay an additional $700 per year. This type of tax increase has happened before multiple times, yet our roads remain among the worst in the country. What’s wrong with this picture? Brandon Serrano Avila Felton   Submit your letter to […]

Letter: Here’s an example where getting sick is not cheap

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Being sick in California is an expensive hobby. Recently, I spent about 14 hours at San Ramon Medical Center. My bill was $14,006.24. Thank God I have insurance, but had to incur co-pay. I called the company to dispute the bill. They refused. I called my insurer, Kaiser Permanente. They refused. I received a copy […]

Letter: More growth simply generates more problems

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Politicians agree on one idea, that economic growth is the solution to all problems. As research biologists, we see this assertion as fundamentally wrongheaded. The world economy is like a biological system. Its growth is absolutely limited by resources. Continuous economic growth is physically impossible. For the first time in history, humans have reached the […]



Letter: New idea of electing presidents is not ludicrous

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Don Sharpes’ oped (“Radical rethinking of how we select our presidents,” Opinion, Dec. 18) makes a radical suggestion that our president be chosen by the elected members of the Senate, from among elected senators. If you think it sounds ludicrous, think again. This is, in essence, how parliamentary democracies work, as in the United Kingdom, […]

Letter: Thanks to those who stepped up and helped

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On Dec. 16, while in the cross walk at Pleasant Hill Target, I was hit by a car which threw me on to the pavement, putting a gash on my head which caused profuse bleeding, and a hurting back. Immediately, a multitude of Target shoppers came to aid me while calling 911. Within a short […]

49ers notes: Cornerbacks conquer Bortles; Reuben Foster re-injured

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SANTA CLARA – Cornerback K’Waun Williams backpedaled fast, read the quarterback’s eyes, soared into the air, extended his left arm and came down with Sunday’s game-changing interception in the 49ers’ 44-33 comeback win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was one of three interceptions the 49ers’ maligned cornerback unit had against quarterback Blake Bortles, and the […]

49ers, Garoppolo upset AFC South-winning Jaguars

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Jimmy Garoppolo improved to 4-0 as the 49ers starting quarterback, producing his fourth comeback win and receiving key help from the 49ers defense in an upset of the AFC South-winning Jacksonville Jaguars.

Hold the yule log: Spare the Air Alert issued for Christmas, day after

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Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report newsletter. Bay Area residents will have to roast chestnuts over an open range if they want to get in the holiday spirit this year. A winter Spare the Air Alert was already in place […]

With pineapple and sugar production gone, Hawaii weighs its agricultural future

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Facing competition from cheap foreign labor, a shortage of farmworkers and some of the nation's highest land costs, the sugar and pineapple plantations that used to be Hawaii's lifeblood are not redeploying into active agriculture, raising questions about the industry's future here.





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