Just letting folks know that www.NOonX.info/ is still a work-in-progress. Feedback, please! I am particularly interested in suggestions for presenting the information so that a wide swath of voters will find it interesting. My guess is that there will be some unlikely allies (and some typical foes).

Over the next few days I will add a neat page that shows how the City charges higher prices (and hence, higher taxes) to the smallest water users. On one side, you'll see the misleading graph from p. 2 of the "SCUM Review" newsletter that City water customers recently received. On the other side, you'll see breakdowns of real water bills, with the monthly minimum factored in. Quite apart from the question of Measure X, this pricing scheme is wrong, because it discourages water conservation!

Another page will show specific City budget figures. Basically, the City is spending more and more money on fewer and fewer employees. This layoffs-for-raises policy is devastating for younger workers (who get laid off) and for City services (which become so expensive, per unit of service, that they can't be sustained).

I am also eager to hear from people who support Measure X. Spirited debate is always good.