Personal Finance

City Attorney Cracks Down on Restaurant Health Insurance Fraud

If you've ever wondered whether the health care surcharge on your restaurant bill is actually going toward funding health insurance for the restaurant's employees, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that the vast majority of S.F. restaurants are in compliance. The bad news is that a ha ... More >>

Culinary Pet Peeves: 5 Things We Hate About Local Restaurants

Eating at a restaurant should ideally be a pleasure and a leisure pursuit, but little needling things sometimes get in the way, whether a service, management, or menu quirk. And if our huge palette of local restaurants have anything in common, it's quirkiness. What are your pet peeves about local r ... More >>

Hyatt Hotels Illegally Enrolled in E-Verify to Track Undocumented Workers, Labor Agency Claims

San Francisco's Hyatt Hotels and the labor unions are once again bickering about best practices. Back in July, if you'll remember, hotel workers picketed outside the Grand Hyatt Union Square, protesting difficult working conditions and calling for a boycott of the chain. This time, the dispute is ... More >>

Nationstar Calls Off Bayview Foreclosure, Sheriff Is a No-Show for Scheduled Eviction

It looks like Nationstar has become the latest lender to hop onto the Bayview foreclosure bandwagon, and thus they are the latest lender being targeted by neighborhood activists.This morning, the hard-working folks that make up Occupy Bernal joined the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerm ... More >>

Old Cop, Young Cop: Police Battle Retirees Over Pensions

Occupy Bernal Postpones Visit to Wealthy Wells Fargo Lobbyist at Home

(Update 8:23 a.m.): We've just been informed that Occupy has postponed the planned march over to Alfredo Pedroza's house tonight while they negotiate with Mayor Ed Lee. According to Buck Bagot, the group is hopeful they can make progress today "toward the cancellation of scheduled foreclosure-relate ... More >>

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Wells Fargo Accused Giving "Illusionary Loans" to Financially Stressed Family

A Missouri couple is taking Wells Fargo to court, attempting to recover money on behalf of all the folks out there who were duped into taking temporary loan modifications from the San Francisco-based bank.According to a lawsuit filed in San Francisco this week, Vicki and Richard Sutcliffe claim Well ... More >>

The Dispossessed: Bayview Homeowners Fight Foreclosures

Berkeley High Students Pull a Ferris Bueller-Like Money Scheme

There's a new side hustle at Berkeley High: Hacking into the school database and clearing classmates' attendance record for a fee. Ferris Bueller would be proud. But the administration was not. School officials caught on and are suspending dozens of students and expelling a few others. Of course, ... More >>

Frances Ann Doherty, City Contractor, Accused of Stiffing Employees Out of Wages

Doherty employees​A San Mateo County woman has been charged with 57 felony counts of cheating her employees of more than $600,000 in wages while working on projects for both the city and school district in San Francisco. According to District Attorney George Gascón, 51-year-old Frances Ann Dohert ... More >>

Parker Gibbs' Annual Holiday Craptacular: Show Preview

Vegan Hanukkah, Year End Animal News, and Beyonce is Partially Vegan!?

​ • Beyonce is preggers and so she's eating a vegan diet. Or is it, a partially vegan diet? Which is what EVERYONE ON EARTH EATS. It's like, did you eat anything that wasn't a steak today? Unless it was an egg milkshake, you're partially vegan! Welcome to the club, asshole! • Need some last m ... More >>

Occupy SF to Open People's Reserve Credit Union

Occupy is doing something besides squatting ​A few weeks ago, we got a real kick out of the fact that Occupy Oakland deposited a $20,000 donation it received into Wells Fargo -- one of the many big banks the movement has been actively protesting since September. Say what you want about Occupy  ... More >>

Brian Wilson Boosts the Air Force with Scholarship

So good on and off the field ​While you were out cooking hot dogs and pounding cheap beers to celebrate the three-day weekend, Brian Wilson, the Giants relief pitcher, observed Memorial Day by establishing the largest Air Force scholarship in history. Wilson set up The Michael Wilson Scholarship i ... More >>

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SF Weekly Letters

Will Landmark Health Care Bill Harm Fish?

​Eating fish is good for your health. Expanded medical coverage is good for public health. Yet expanding medical coverage harms the health of fish.Does this mean heath care harms people's health?Probably not. But Republicans are alleging that Rep. Nancy Pelosi's intense lobbying and favor-swapping ... More >>

S.F. Business Group Spurns Pelosi's Health Care Plea

Not winning the vote of San Francisco's business community...​Despite 30 minutes of face time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to convince a delegation of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce business leaders to endorse the most important piece of legislation a San Francisco politician has shepherd ... More >>

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Personal Finance Site Says Los Angeles Now Has More Tightwads Than San Francisco

That top hat? A cool $200 -- do not pass 'Go.'​ Cheap is the new black. It's hip to be spare. Frugal = fabulous. But according to a new map that shows the most frugal cities in America produced by the personal finance Web site, Mint.com, San Francisco is yet again lagging behind on a trend, traili ... More >>

City Attorney Dennis Herrera Ups Ante in S.F.-Minnesota Credit Card Credit-Hogging Dispute

Don't worry, hypothetical Michigan Tech alum Chris L. Martin! Dennis Herrera has got your back.​When Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson hogged credit last month for attacking a loophole companies use to prevent consumer lawsuits, observers said San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera was g ... More >>

Apparent Ponzi Scheme Advertised in Sunday Chronicle, Fraud Investigator Says

Banking experts qualify the service being hawked in this San Francisco Chronicle ad as a potential Ponzi schemeReaders skimming the ads on page D-2 of the Sunday, July 12 San Francisco Chronicle might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a quarter-page advertisement ... More >>

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

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