Subject: Jim Lazarus

• Par for the Course

  Give away city golf courses? Yet another scheme to take public property and put it into private hands without much oversight.

  February 7, 2007

• A Vote of Competence

  This is no time for softheaded governing. In this election, Prop. F and Dennis Herrera pass the confidence test; MUD fails completely.

  October 31, 2001

• Left in the Lurch

  October 24, 2001

• Dog Bites

  August 28, 1996

• Beating Swords Into Tourist Shares

  S.F. tries, tries again to bring the USS Missouri "home"

  August 21, 1996

• Did City's Goof Cause Tax Collectors to Overcharge San Francisco's Small Businesses?

  A ballot proposition that raised the amount of money San Francisco businesses need to pay their employees before being subjected to city payroll taxes seems to have gone unnoticed by the very people charged with enforcing it -- San Francisco's tax collectors. Last year, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition Q, which, essentially, did two things: It broadened the number of businesses subject to payroll taxes (notably including partnerships such as law or architectural firms) but also raised

  July 1, 2009