Comments for Belva's Question This Week

Comment on What Are Your Questions for KQED's New CEO? by ibisko ren

ibisko ren — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:58:20 +0000

Viewership can be monitored over cable for PBS,
but not so for listeners on the radio.
Could supporters vote their preferences for programming, perhaps on the website?

It seems that NPR news has taken a turn to the conservative. Since Candidate Whitman announced
she listens to NPR, hopefully she also a supporter?

Comment on What Are Your Questions for KQED's New CEO? by Jiminy Christmas

Jiminy Christmas — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:50:33 +0000

Are you going to get rid of the pseudoscience infomercials? Do you realize that airing that stuff is a complete and utter betrayal of everything that public television is supposed to stand for? Budget problems may be bad, but that's no excuse for abandoning your mission statement completely.

Comment on What Are Your Questions for KQED's New CEO? by Carole Campagna

Carole Campagna — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:56:20 +0000

Will you be discussing/researching the controvery regarding P.G.&E.'s Smartmeter installation?

Would appreciate KQED"s in-depth analysis of this topic.

Really enjoy seeing Rebecca Smith (Wall St. Journalist) again.

Comment on What Are Your Questions for KQED's New CEO? by zeva longley

zeva longley — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:26:23 +0000

why hasn't KQED reached out to ex members like me to find out why we do not donate?

Two months after the transmission transition I could not get reception with my antenna.I miss you.

Comment on Will Steve Poizner's accusations that Meg Whitman's advisor attempted to force him out of the governor's race hurt his campaign or hers? by Rosa

Rosa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:47:22 +0000

I've never registered with any political party, so it's immaterial to me who runs in primary elections, but the email excerpt contained in Poizner's letter to the FBI sheds some much-needed light on how elections are shaped by people who are rarely reported on--campaign strategists. And not just strategists for individual candidates. The email is an interesting insight into how a party takes a state-level view of all the races in any given election year. It wouldn't surprise me if something similar had been sent to Tom Campbell to get him to quit the Governor's race and try for US Senate instead. As for whether it will hurt Poizner's campaign or Whitman's--in my view it should hurt hers more than his, but the media and voters have such a cynical view of politics the prevailing attitude seems to be if you can't stand the heat, get out of the devil's kitchen.

Comment on Will Steve Poizner's accusations that Meg Whitman's advisor attempted to force him out of the governor's race hurt his campaign or hers? by judy

judy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:17:22 +0000

Poizner is a rock bottom 30 % behind and is behaving like a very bad loser. He's been in office for several years and nobody even knows it...he lacks people skills and he's not going to win. He's LOSING, SO HE HAD NOTHING TO LOSE by being petty and mean. Either he staged it himself for press coverage OR there's always the possibility Jerry Brown did it because he's terrified of losing to Meg Whitman. Brown would like to campaign dirty and he's afraid how he'd campaign against her. It's well known Brown would prefer running against Poizner...who he could beat. Meg is very qualified and he can't play her like a Repub politician....cause she' not. She's a serious accomplished leader.... who charted her own course. She hasn't built up a long list of people she OWES, like jerry has. She independently did it all herself.. owes nobody !!!

Comment on What would need to change in order for Californians to feel more optimistic about the coming year? by Gina Oltman

Gina Oltman — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:17:18 +0000

If our politicians would be more reasonable, work together to solve society's problems, compromise with each other once in a while, drop the dogma of their political parties, and stop putting themselves and their contributors first for a change, we'd all be better off.

Comment on What would need to change in order for Californians to feel more optimistic about the coming year? by Laura Callahan

Laura Callahan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:30:27 +0000

I would feel more confident if California were to make Education a priority and make a statement that we need to invest in the youth of our state, our future workforce and leadership. Without a well educated work force and an investment in the youth of our state, we are headed in a dangerous direction that will be very hard to reverse. We have already fallen behind in many areas.

Comment on What effect has this recession had on your favorite small business in your community? by diane carter

diane carter — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:38:46 +0000

I have seen a uneven impact of the recession on small businesses in my community. In general minority owned businesses are frequented by their community members. The Asian small business community in San Francisco has prospered. They are supported financially by their community members in mass.

The African American businesses in the community have had less success due to the fact that fewer members of their communities are part of the population of San Francisco at this time. Your program mentioned the loss of African American population as one of the reasons for the economic down turn being experienced by some business in the African American community. You also, however, stated a bigger problem for small businesses which is competition from big businesses which have the economic clout to offer the services at lower cost and the capital to out run small business with the distribution and circulation of advertisements for their companies.

It seems to me that some of the larger companies should subsidize small business to the degree that small business vendors especially minority owned businesses will be able to keep their unique businesses open during this hard economic time. The biggest threat to minority business is large corporate competition.

Comment on What are the most critical public safety issues in your community and how should they be addressed? by Dan Brekke

Dan Brekke — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:16:15 +0000

I'd argue that most important public-safety issue we face in the urban Bay Area–and in cities everywhere–is how to create a true sense of personal security for those who live in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. High levels of crime in these areas erode or destroy what those in more affluent areas think of as "normalcy" — the sense that you can go about your life with a certain expectation of safety. The lack of this sense — in fact, the prevailing and widely justified fear that one's person and property are chronically at risk — has a huge negative effect on the life of many inner-city communities and all the institutions that try to operate there, from the schools to small business.

But: It's easy to say all that, very difficult to find and implement solutions. One small step in this direction, though, would be for police agencies to make serving these communities their first priority.