Arigid plan by City Council members Kevin Faulconer and Donna Frye to divert tens of millions of dollars in general fund revenues to Mission Bay Park over the next 30 years – without regard to other pressing budget needs or unforeseen emergencies – is exceptionally unwise. The City Council, which will consider the matter tomorrow, should shelve this imprudent scheme, not put it on the November ballot.

Give the drug smugglers credit. They may be ruthless cowards who get people to do their dirty work by threatening loved ones, but they're also smart, creative and highly motivated to get their lethal products to market. And thanks to Americans' insatiable consumption habits, the drug lords have almost unlimited resources to work with.

I get no satisfaction from recent accounts about other news companies reducing their staffs and their papers. Instead of schadenfreude, I feel empathy. As the news industry undergoes the biggest transformation of our lifetimes, journalists and readers are in this struggle together. No other change has shaken us as much as the Internet has, affecting us in some ways that were anticipated and others that caught us off guard.