@bsw5020 My mother, Du Cung. She was my rock. Always made sure the kids were happy, well fed, and sacrificed so much so we can be successful. I miss her every day and wished she can be here laughing and playing with my kids.
BREAKING: President Trump is weighing a cut to capital gains taxes ahead of midterm elections, per Bloomberg.
There has not been a major cut to capital gains tax rates in the US since 2003.
This would have massive implications if implemented.
Former NFL star and three-time Pro Bowl running back Chris Johnson revealed he has been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. https://t.co/n7nmSAvC5g
More than 250 properties are set to go on the auction block in one Bay Area county later this month, with minimum bids hitting as low as $455. https://t.co/syxwl5iZ72
🚨🇺🇸 Timo Werner to San Jose Earthquakes, here we go! Deal in place for the German striker to try new chapter in MLS.
Werner leaves Leipzig and will sign at San Jose in the next days after verbal agreement reached today, as @tombogert reports.
It will be a permanent deal.
This project is awesome. It would turn an old single-story Safeway grocery store into an iconic mixed use gem. Check out these stats:
- 790 new housing units (86 affordable)
- 88 studios
- 132 two-bedroom units
- 85 three-bedroom units (!!!)
- 50% larger Safeway on ground floor
It’s now 27 years since I was made redundant and given a few grand. I decided that if I was careful, I could live off the money for 6 months trying to become a comedian before I had to get another job. I was 37. Worth a punt.
Hundreds of thousands of workers across the San Francisco Bay Area were stranded today.
BART & SF MUNI are examples of complete organizational failure and mismanagement.
Here is a quote from someone very close BART/MUNI which highlights the incompetence:
"Yes, apart from today’s shut down, both Bart and Muni have problems. BART and MUNI are, compared to other major city transportation systems:
(1) running huge deficits,
(2) have increasingly ballooning pension obligations,
(3) amongst the highest cost per mile traveled,
(4) amongst the highest cost per rider trip,
(5) have some of the highest labor costs,
(6) have deferred maintenance, and finally
(7) continued fraud, gate crashing and mismanagement persist. About two years ago at a meeting with MUNI leadership, I asked if they benchmarked the items above with other large City “well run” transportation systems to understand and identify where improvements can be made. The answer was, “No, we never thought about that.”"
These organziations need to remade from the ground up using first priniciples and operated like business. The current status quo is unsustainable.
I'm FIRMLY against any tax increases to fund our transportation agencies until they copy effective agencies in other cities, downsize their headcount, and get new leadership.
Stop the waste. Stop the incompetence.