The City’s Finance Committee continues to grapple with potential budget cuts. As I’ve written before, I support an across-the-board reduction in all City departments as City Manager Dave Burkland recommends. Since police and fire departments represent the biggest share of General Fund personnel and operating costs, a 7.5% across-the-board cut represents the largest absolute budget reduction. It’s not an easy decision, but if police and/or fire department reductions are lessened â€" and for ahttp://www.norcalblogs.com/bullfight/archi...

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Another recent Gallup survey completes and confirms what we already know from the other Gallup survey and other research. There is a core group of people, about 30% who are deeply committed to making environmental changes. As Kyle emphasized in one of his earlier comments here, these are the people we need to work with. They can be evangelists for sustainable living. The environment is a significant concern, but one that comes behind more personal and immediate concerns such as the econohttp://lamarguerite.wordpress.com/2008/04/...

We love us some Shooting Brakes here at TTAC. After all, what cooler combination is there than the power and handling of a sports coupe with the practicality of a small wagon? The problem is that mixing unlike things often leads to, erm, muddled results. Take BMW's newly previewed 3-series shooting brake, which is based on the forthcoming (2012) 3-series sedan, and expected to drop a year after the four-door. Rendered speculation at Motor Authority by the usually on-point Schulte Design shows ahttp://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/bmw-shoot...