Hut, hut, hikeThese days are just packed for Mayor Gavin Newsom. He just introduced a city financial plan that's a dead cert to induce enough fevered statements about "balancing the budget on the backs of the poor" to make outsiders think the city's indigent population is working on a circus novelty act. Within a matter of days, he'll have the names of San Francisco's potential next police chief placed on his desk. And, tonight, Santa Clara's city council votes on greenlighting a $937 million st
Is 'No gay tourism' the 11th plague?With fiscal and economic plagues already haunting California, could a Proposition 8-inspired professional brain drain -- and even a tourism boycott -- be next?During a conversation Tuesday, Rob Black, vice president for public policy of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, said he's already heard rumblings of boycott sentiment."I got a call from out of state at noon today that said a family of five was flying up here to their great aunt's birthday party. The
Rob BlackRob Black -- the preferred District 6 candidate of Mayor Gavin Newsom who was pipped at the post by Chris Daly in the 2006 supervisorial race -- told SF Weekly he has no plans to run again. In fact, if things go his way, he won't even be living in the district much longer. "My wife and I are looking for a house and odds are we aren't going to be able to buy one in District 6," says Black, the vice president for public policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. "We've been renters
​People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade shows. Workers travel to distant cities, check into the Hyatt, mingle with people who went the same (or similar) college as they did, and, at the end of the day, hit industry-sponsored dinners and cocktails.
So it's easy to comprehend why the suits at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce have
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