Phil Ting

May 11, 2012

By: Phil Ting

In today’s media landscape of 140 character statements and 30-second sound bites, it’s easy to score points with buzzwords like open government and transparency. From President Barack Obama to leaders closer to home, elected officials are exploring the power and potential for Open Source Government.

By: Phil Ting

Is California actually proposing to create a “lost generation” denied access to the jobs and the opportunities of a knowledge economy?

Reading the breaking story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the plan to eliminate state grants for graduate students in California State Universities the answer appears to be, sadly, "yes."

What issues are most important to you?

I believe that government works better when government listens. And as a member of the State Assembly, I will make sure your voices are heard.

That’s why I’m hosting a conversation on April 22 to hear your priorities and your ideas for making our cities and state better.

The skyrocketing cost of tuition of the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems are crippling thousands of working families and struggling students across the state. That is why I’m asking you to join me in supporting Speaker John Pérez’s “Middle Class Scholarship” legislation by signing the petition today.

My campaign for California State Assembly is heating up. I’m so proud to announce that this week Attorney General Kamala Harris, the California League of Conservation Voters and a coalition of Filipino-American community leaders, including San Francisco School Board Commissioner Hydra Mendoza, Daly City Councilmember and Vice Mayor Ray Buenaventura and Genevieve Jopanda, National Co-Chair of KAYA: Filipino Americans for Progress, have endorsed my campaign!

By: Phil Ting, San Francisco Assessor-Recorder

San Francisco’s economic recovery may be driven by new media, but let’s not call it a “new economy” just yet.

Because as powerful, even transformative, as this new media economy can be, there is still one thing very old-fashioned about it – our tech economy continues to leave out a large part of our population.

By: Phil Ting, Assessor-Recorder of San Francisco

The new $26 billion dollar mortgage settlement agreement between state Attorneys General and major banks will help make restitution to millions of homeowners defrauded and damaged by lenders. But justice requires more than compensating the past victims — we must protect Californians from future abuse, improve laws regulating foreclosure and ensure they are enforced.