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Tomás Aragón San Francisco plastic-bag ban associated with 46% increase in foodborne illness deaths — Not!

Tomás Aragón, Medical Epidemiologist | 2/13/13 | 25 comments

In my role as Health Officer of San Francisco I received a flurry of concerned calls about a research study that claimed that the 2007 San Francisco ban on plastic bag resulted in an immediate, very large increase in foodborne illnesses and deaths. From their conclusions:

“We examine deaths and emergency … More >

Jonathan Simon David Onek for San Francisco D.A.

Jonathan Simon, professor of law | 11/7/11 | 2 comments

California’s dramatic pivot toward giving counties primary responsibility for punishment over a wide swath of persons convicted of felonies, a policy known as realignment, is the most important move toward dismantling mass incarceration in this state in forty years.

As I have argued here before, there is both great promise and … More >

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