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Re: Declining Gas Prices? Don’t Hold Your Breath
Scott Clark says …
Thanks to Doug Brauner for discussing issues related to the shortage of gasoline and encouraging people to bicycle and use transit. It is refreshing to hear someone whose livelihood is based on motor vehicles acknowledge more sustainable alternatives.
     I expect that you will receive letters stating that your advice to “stop driving” is unreasonable, but I strongly support your view. The Sacramento region is doing a better job of providing homes closer to employment, shopping and schools, so we now have more opportunity to make housing decisions that will make it easier to kick the car habit. Make smarter choices and you can ride your bike to the park, you can take light rail to work, and your children can walk to school.

Re: Jim Bonfield’s Campaign Geekery
Jerry says …
Enjoyable column, but you may not wish to rely on Alexa stats for sites outside the top few thousand. Alexa statistics are widely known as a remarkable source of internet fiction. The statistics are easily manipulated and highly inaccurate for the vast majority of site rankings.

RE: The Breakfast Club
Jeffrey Callison says …
Hmmm ... The article says each is wearing a navy-blue pinstripe suit that morning, and that Fong orders only a fruit bowl. However, in the print edition pictures, you can see Rob Fong tucking into a waffle (or perhaps a pancake) and Genevieve Shiroma wearing a brown jacket. I guess the photographer and the reporter went to the breakfast club on different months!

On Ms. Manners’ “The Well-Mannered Guide to Giving”
Amber Bauer says …
It is not “necessary” to wrap a gift when giving, but people should remember: Presentation goes a long way! It’s not too hard to neatly stuff tissue into a bag (gotta love the recycle-ability of those gift bags).
    The thought is what counts, so it’s nice to let people think they are worth the effort.

On Matthew Mahood & Larry Vanderhoef’s “American Competitiveness Initiative”
Michael Teel says ...
UC Davis claims to generate an annual economic impact between $2.7 billion and $3.4 billion dollars. I am assuming that is the impact for the greater Sacramento Region, or is that the economic impact spread throughout our state?
    What percentage of these dollars is actually spent in our region? Of the more than $450 million in research dollars acquired for 2005, what percentage of those dollars were spent locally?
    I’d love to see a report card for each county where research dollars are spent. Let’s see how Sacramento is doing in capturing its share of UC Davis’ economic impact.

CORRECTION
A web finger on page 42 in the October issue directs readers to biasup.org for information on the North State Building Industry Association (North State BIA). The website is: northstatebia.org.

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