Introduction

Email me at brian@h2oecon.com
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Recreation Notes

A Short Exercise Video with Forbes Carlile (SWF)

View my SF Economist Blog Site

San Francisco Issues

Taxing these hotels masquerading as apartments could help pay for Newsom's Universal Health Care

Realistic Calculation of GGC's Power Passthrough

Appeal to SF Rent Board Granted -- Appealing Golden Gateway Center's $99.05/month power (PG&E) passthrough for 2007

Enter GGC's net power charges in your move in year (base year) - then express this in today's dollars using the BLS caculator.- Subtract this amount from their current PG&E bill and see how your passthrough shrinks in REALISTIC terms when this calculation is adjusted for your CPI rent related increases

Dont'Change the Name of Ferry Park - Please

RBOC Meeting August 7, 2006

Read Prop P 2002 - I believe I have it right

Are the foxes guarding the chickens Notes on the RBOC Information Policy?

Rugby Update

Official RBOC Meeting Agenda August 7, 2006

Taxi Sudies 2005-2006

Part I - February -- 2006 - SF Taxicab Industry Review

Part II - May -- 2006 - A New Proposition K - Restructuring San Francisco Taxicab Industry

Part III - October 2006 - SF Taxi Regulatory Review with Case Studies from other SF regulated enterprises

Letter to Editor January 9, 2007 - Appointer and Appointed must be accountable

Letter to the Editor - Half Baked Economics

Letters to the Editor - Regulating SF taxi medallions July 13/14, 2006 SF Examiner

Letters to the Editor - Health Care - Plan Required July 10, 2006 SF Examiner

June 22, 2006, Letters to the Editor - Qualified City Leaders

May 11, 2006, SF Examiner, Letters to Ed. -- City Debt -- Progress on the Hetch Hetchy fix-up

Letters to the Editor - Rich Bodisco, Office of Economic Analyst -- July 27, 2006, SF Examiner

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Golden Gateway and Envions Issues

Letter to GM of Golden Gateway Center regarding maintenance work and telephone calls without messages

8.23.04 Reason/Urban Water Institute - "Western Water Wars - The Hetch Hetchy system"

What will we get for $5 Billion and/or is 265MGD spurious?

Chair Task Force Rich Bodisco on Proposition H - Sewer Freeze -See also TF Reports

November 2002 - No on A, D, and E

Link To Mayor Brown's Infrastructure Task Force Reports

2000 Power Policy Recommendation

SFPUC - Financing 1997 A&B Bonds and Proposed CIP (TF: 3/30/01)

Don't give up your voting rights 11/2001

Interim Report SFPUC Task Force Sept. 11, 2001

My Final Report to the SF Mayor's Infrastructure Task Force June 2002

Electric Pass-Through 2002 -GGC

1997 Article "Australia's National Competition Policy" - Published by Reason Foundation

No to recycled water - story from Australia July 2006

Water and Wastewater Competition Studies

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EPRI Study Competition in Water and Wastewater Industries

1998 Study for EPRI - Municipal Water and Wastewater Program

Invited Comments on First Annual RBOC Draft Report

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N. California Experience Under the Natural Gas Policy Act 1978-84

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