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Niners make it interesting but fall in Thursday shootout

For the second time in as many weeks, the 49ers had a chance.

Boxing champ Andre Ward retires undefeated

Undefeated world boxing champion Andre Ward officially announced his retirement from the sport Thursday.

SF will help pay renewal fee for DACA recipients

San Francisco will help to pay the $495 renewal cost for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients.

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  1. Handing out money is never a good deal because once you start you’ll never be able to stop and the costs of projects will continue to grow while number of businesses impacted will continue to rise. Think, first it’ll be businesses directly impacted, then the one around the corner, and then the one down the street. Subsidizing business is not a good deal for taxpayers.

    That said, businesses need to step up to the plate and say hey, maybe I should just accept longer construction hours or reduce traffic for a short duration if it speeds up construction in the long run. If shutting down a street for a week shaves off a few weeks of intermittent disruptions, maybe it’s worth it. Right now we’re slowing down construction because we want contractors to bend over backwards to maintain parking and through vehicle traffic. What about the people!

    Stop playing politics and work on real solutions. How do we get this work done faster, better, less disruptive. We cant hand out money for every water, sewer, and electrical line that needs to be replaced. It’s that time where our infrastructure needs replacement. There is going to be construction. If you want to hand out money, have all businesses pay into a fund to support them in a time of need. It’s like social security for business… and that’s exactly what’s being proposed, but without a funding mechanism. Even with our huge city budget, we do not have excess money to fund our existing liabilities. What about the trees, the schools, the playgrounds…. Paving streets, fixing 911, cleaning up the streets and getting homeless into housing.