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June 24, 2009
Point Adachi: Controller's Audit of Public Defender's Office Bolsters Claim Farming Out Cases to Private Attorneys Would Cost City More
Richard BuiJeff Adachi survived his probing by the city controller -- and is now proudly boasting the resultsSome of you may remember the very public tête-à-tête between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd earlier this year. Sparked by Adachi's request to hire more paraleg ... More >>
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March 18, 2010
Will Muni Finally Catch a Financial Break?
Is good news on the way? City Controller Ben Rosenfield was strolling through the pathways of City Hall this morning with a document tucked under his arm that may or may not save Muni some much-needed moolah. He's not saying. Not yet at least. The document beneath his arm was a draft copy of an a ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
Poof, There It Goes: Up to $142 million in city revenue is "uncertain"
SF will discover, plant theseIn terms of budgeting, cities and people aren't so different: you spend what you have and then you spend what you plan to have. This all rests on the notion that you will actually eventually have, and as the City Controller warned on Thursday, San Francisco is betting ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
San Francisco Uses Its Good Credit To Bail Asian Art Museum Out Of Debt
Money RescueThe financially troubled Asian Art Museum seems to have gracefully escaped bankruptcy. After a brief scare of losing its credit line and $20 million in assets, city officials have apparently worked out a better deal than the museum could have imagined -- they don't have to pay off the ... More >>
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March 15, 2011
Pension Reports Predict Dire San Francisco Future
Such a headache...When discussing the city's pension morass, the preferred analogy is a bursting dam. Fair enough. But, today, we'll use different too-much-water nomenclature: In pension world, when it rains, it pours. Hot on the heels of city controller Ben Rosenfield's analysis of what would -- ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Pensions: How Many Earn $195,000 or More?
The Chronicle ran an interesting front-page story today acknowledging that pension reform is the dinner guest no one at the wanna-be mayoral table invited -- but can't get rid of.Our would-be leaders are grilled about their stance on runaway pensions; most of them embrace the term "negotiated dea ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Adachi's Latest Pension Claim Riles City Hall
This will not go smoothly...In a pension-related version of Martin Luther nailing 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, Jeff Adachi took to the steps of City Hall today. But, since this is a pension-related matter, you can substitute the theses with hundreds of millions in pension obliga ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Pension Bomb: City May Be Facing Additional $100 Million Burden
The city's situation really sucks...When your doctor is feeling parts of your body, squints, utters an expletive, and says "well, that's not supposed to be there," it's uncertain what the situation is. But, this much is clear -- it's not good. And that's how things stand with the city's pension p ... More >>

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