The number of elderly people is growing as the number of children drops. Read More
The City’s inability to keep families from fleeing San Francisco also is impacting its growing population of seniors.
The 2010 census revealed San Francisco has the lowest proportion of children of any major city in the United States, at just 13.4 percent of the population. Read More
“I made a lot of goals growing up, because it was my way to get out of it.”— Kayla Daniels Read More
One of the toughest things Kayla Daniels ever had to do was give up on her parents and focus on herself.
“My parents would get clean for a few months, I would go back with them, and they would relapse,” said Daniels, now 23, who said she spent most of her childhood in and out of foster care while her mother and father struggled with addictions to methamphetamine and other drugs. Read More
Gov. Jerry Brown’s May budget revision, which he announced last week, is worse than originally projected. What once was estimated to be a $9 billion deficit has ballooned to almost twice that amount.
Thanks to the overreach of Proposition 13, California’s legislators have been powerless to raise taxes for almost 40 years. The only way the state can significantly raise taxes is through a referendum on the state ballot, which is typically subject to the reflexive hostility of voters. Brown has been barnstorming around the state, offering cuts in state programs, but demanding that California residents approve tax increases in return.
“You gotta live within your means,” he said recently on CBS. “There’s a day of reckoning.”
Get ready for hits: “The Temptations Review” featuring Dennis Edwards comes to Yoshi’s this week. Read More
It’s hard to beat The Temptations when it comes to chart-topping hits. “My Girl,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “The Way You Do The Things You Do” and “Get Ready” are just a few tunes planted in pop music’s canon, but the list goes on — almost too long. Read More
Chia Santiago and Capuchino are just two wins away from their second straight CCS Division III... Read More
Familiar territory. That’s where the Carlmont High School softball team finds itself.
It was only a year ago that the Scots had their season ended in the Central Coast Section Division I semifinals by San Benito.
They are back in the semifinals, but this time taking on Salinas today with the possibility of setting up a rematch with San Benito, which is playing in the other semifinal against Leland. Read More
