The Planning Department maintains that Medjool's rooftop bar is illegal -- yet every politician in the city has raised bucks up there and no one seemed to know about itA fair amount of ink -- but not enough -- was spilled over how a typo will allow heavy Gavin Newsom donor Gus Murad to build a proposed condo project at the New Mission Theater 20 feet higher than zoning rules allow -- and Newsom's veto overrode the Board of Supervisors' attempt to remedy this error. So, in the hubbub over the Ame
Joe EskenaziSupervisor John Avalos admits that taking post-election donations from former political enemies looks bad -- but having a massive campaign debt is badYou'd think making a donation to a San Francisco supervisorial candidate would be a bit like a horse race: You make your "bets," you cheer down the stretch, and, if you bet correctly, you get a "return." In some ways it's like that. But once the horses cross the finish line, the analogy blows up. In a San Francisco supervisorial horse r
At Medjool, in a manner of speaking, the roof is on fireInvitations to join a Facebook page titled "SAVE MEDJOOL" are flooding San Franciscans' e-mail inboxes. The missive pleads for locals' help in persuading the big, bad Planning Department from pulling the permits for the Mission establishment's rooftop bar, which would ostensibly put the place under and force 60 hard-working souls into the breadlines. And yet, while Medjool's position may truly be perilous, this might not be an organic swell
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