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Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Councilman Kevin Faulconer recently proposed a ballot measure to switch new non-public safety workers from a guaranteed pension plan to a 401(k) retirement account. Coucilman Faulconer and the president of AFSCME Local 127 talk about how the proposal could impact the city's budget deficit and workforce.

The California Coastal Commission will decide Wednesday whether an exemption for the Point Loma Sewage Treatment Plant is in line with state coastal regulations.

San Francisco's subway shut off cellphone service to thwart protesters, inciting a legal controversy. First Amendment scholars say they can't remember a time when a public agency in the U.S. moved to disrupt wireless traffic in quite that way, while Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say they had to protect riders' safety.

President Obama's Midwest bus trip is part listening tour to show that he's concerned about the problems of actual Americans, part rolling photo op that gives him a chance to make the case for compromise (and to blame congressional Republicans for not doing enough on that score.)But it also was a chance to try and score a few points on the would-be Republican nominees.

Boston College scholars interviewed paramilitary fighters on both sides of a violent, decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland. Now, the British government wants access to those confidential interviews. The case worries historians who fear it may make people more reluctant to share their stories.

The dead victims of the Tuscon shooting attack represented a range of people that might be found at any congressional constituents' event.

Airs Friday, November 19, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

President Obama's visit Wednesday to a solar cell factory in California is part of a broader push to promote alternative forms of energy. But in the wake of the massive Gulf oil spill, some observers say Obama is missing an opportunity for even stronger action.

In the depths of the Great Depression, FDR's New Deal cut unemployment dramatically. But by the start of his second term, when things were starting to look up, he switched gears to promote austerity. Unemployment soared. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says rushing to cut spending was a mistake then — and could be again today.

An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues has driven down the projected federal budget deficit this year. The White House says that the deficit will be about $296 billion, much less than the $423 billion predicted six months ago. Steve Inskeep talks with David Wessel of the The Wall Street Journal.